![]() ![]() ![]() As well as appealing to all his many loyal readers, it will also intrigue those with an interest in English rural life.Registered office: 29 Fentiman Road, London SW8 1LDįreda: the free ebook reader for Windows and Androidįreda is a free program for reading electronic books (ebooks) on Windows and Android. In this engaging book, illustrated with line drawings and contemporary photographs, Fred Archer vividly depicts village and rural life in Worcestershire during the inter-war years. Here is Arthur Harris's first day as a plough boy, aged fourteen the tale of Jarvie Ricketts, gamekeeper and pig killer the poignant story of Fred Chapel the stockman, left a broken man after his cattle were struck by foot-and-mouth anecdotes about the eccentric squire and the parson who was fond of a tipple reminiscences of Pershore Fair and of the arrival of pea-pickers on holiday from Cheltenham and memories of the joy of haymaking during the long hot summer of 1921 beneath a sky filled with the song of skylark and peewit.Ashton-under-Hill is described by its inhabitants just before it changed for ever with the coming of the Fordson tractor, the increase in those who worked away from the land, and the arrival of electricity, the village bus and the telephone. ![]() In his new book Fred Archer describes life in the village under the hill during the Depression of the 1920s and '30s, and in particular the year of 1924: the year of foot-and-mouth disease the year when governess carts were replaced by motor cars, when the first council houses were built, when there was controversy over the lych-gate, when deer escaped from the Park, and when two important football matches were contested.The book is based on the memories of the villagers themselves recounted to Fred over the years. 'It unt like it used to be,' complained the cowman over his beer, while the shepherd commented that 'education is no good on to chaps who be gwain to work on the land'. ![]()
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