Reference
X980/1/8
Title
Farm diary compiled by Robin Orme, Holtwood Farm, Sundon, In hardback Collins One Day Standard Diary No 44. The diary gives one page per day. It was printed for 1959 but each daily page has been used for 1960 and 1961 too.
Date free text
1959-1961
Production date
From: 1959 To: 1961
Scope and Content
Daily 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.
Loan status
TOCATawaiting cataloguing
Level of description
item