Reference
Z887/1
Title
Wordprocessed memoirs of Daisy E.E. Denton (1889-1979) covering the period 1889-1914 and describing life at Whitsun Doles Farm, Salford, and Hulcote Moors Farm in detail.
Date free text
1 June 1976
Production date
From: 1976 To: 1976
Scope and Content
Subjects include hat buying from Luton seller (pp 3-4)
pig-keeping (4)
the Smithy (5)
poultry-keeping (6-7)
the Bedfordshire Clanger (7)
hay-making and harvesting (7-8)
arrival of agricultural binders (9)
gypsies (10)
cycling (11)
turkey farming (16)
"tin-canning" a woman out of Cranfield (20)
early aeroplanes (21).
Includes index of people in text, colour photocopied illustrations of Hulcote Moors farmhouse, Daisy Denton aged 16 years, and German prisoners at Woburn Sands (25-26)
extracts from 1891 census for people mentioned in memoirs (27-8).
28 pp
Language
English
Level of description
item