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Food and Farming Memories

In this section of the Working Memories website local people talk about their work in the farming and food industries.

Keith Higgins remembers his work in the dairy industry
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Keith Higgins talks about his farm work and his jobs at Oldford Creamery in the days when it was owned by Express Dairies

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Lin and Brian Walton recall their dairy farm in Spring Gardens
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Lin and Brian Walton talk about how they built up their goat husbandry and ice cream business at Cherry Tree Farm in Frome

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Gloria Wingrove remembers her childhood on a Lullington farm
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Gloria Wingrove talks about growing up on a farm, helping to care for young animals, collecting wood and growing vegetables

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Bob Norris talks about his farming life at Sandy’s Hill Farm in Frome
 Bob Norris talks about his farming life at Sandy’s Hill Farm in Frome 905 1024 Mercer Design
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Bob Norris followed his father into farming. He discusses the changes that increasing mechanisation brought to the industry

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John Burge helped his father to deliver beer to Frome pubs
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John Burge recalls helping his father with beer deliveries from the Lamb Brewery and United Brewery to the pubs in and around Frome

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