• Reference
    X980/1/3
  • Title
    Farm diary compiled by Robin Orme, Holtwood Farm, Sundon, In hard back Boots Scribbling Diary.
  • Date free text
    1948
  • Production date
    From: 1948 To: 1948
  • Scope and Content
    Entries describe changes in the weather (temperatures given occasionally), and work activities carried out by workers/members of the family ( e.g. carting, milking, fence repair, dung cart, sawing logs) often denoted by initials, problems with machinery and vehicles, deliveries to the farm, number of eggs and farm animals giving birth with number of young. Memoranda as to cows and calving at front. Entries not as consistently made as they had been in previous years.
  • Loan status
    TOCATawaiting cataloguing
  • Level of description
    item