Z887/1

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. 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 Compiled: 1 June 1976

1 June 1976

From: 1976 To: 1976

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Salford Whitsun Doles Farm, Holcot Moors Farm, hats, pigs, blacksmiths, poultry, cooking, harvesting, hay, Gypsies, cycling, aeroplanes, ILLUSTRATIONS, census, SALFORD, HULCOTE & SALFORD, LUTON, WOBURN SANDS