Object Type: Folder
In Folder: TR/12
Originally recorded using a dictaphone. Includes the following topics: (00:00) Birth at Clematis House, Lund in 1939 (00:45) World War II: British Soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk billeted at Lund farms (04:14) Air Raid on RAF Driffield (05:30) The Lamb family’s agricultural heritage in the East Riding father and grandfather (15:45) World War II: Women’s Land Army (16:30) Mechanised and manual farming from the 1930s (18:30) Farming during the first half of the twentieth 1 (21:50) Italian and German POW’s during WWII (22:50) Farming during the first half of the twentieth 2 (24:30) Livestock markets around Lund (26:15) World War II farming (27:00) Harold Charlton, a notable local farmer (29:44) William’s entry into farming: Education – Scarborough College, Young Farmers Club, Bainton Young Farmers School (32:50) The drift (of farm labour) from the land (34:10) Effects of dock strikes on farming (35:00) Poultry farming (36:00) Mechanisation of farming from 1950s (37:35) Impact of joining the EEC on the region’s farming
3 May 2017
