Sheila Llewellyn taught at inner city schools until she came to Walmore Hill Primary School. She had to rapidly adjust her approach when she realised the challenges and situations facing rural school children, especially those from farming families. She also experienced ‘double’ British Summer Time, and its negative impact on those same children.
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Nigel Isaac undertook a 12-month training programme at Hartpury College in the 1960s where he learned animal husbandry. He began his farming career on an un-mechanised farm in Hucclecote. He learned the skill of building hay ricks and using horses to drive machinery. He was well treated by his employer who had worked in Canada. He left College with a Credit in the National Certificate for Agriculture.
Nigel's second farming job saw him move to a modern mechanised farm using intensive rearing methods that was at the leading edge of agricultural practice.
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Ivy Gunter describes how their farm was electrified in the 1950s. Dennis Biddle, her first husband, used electricity from his own generator to mechanise his milking parlour and they were later able to pay for connection to the grid when mains electricity came near the farm. This transformed farm life and she was able to get an electric cooker to replace the range. Electrification changed the domestic spaces in homes where previously cooking was dependant on ranges and open fire.
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