This wide range of items includes books of personal memories by writers such as Hugh Barrett, novels about the past and DVDs of Paul Heiney’s Anglia Television series.
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Best Job Ever, The (Softback) - John Hull
Ref: 654B
Ford tractor conversion specialist County Commercial Cars of Fleet in Hampshire was at the peak of its powers when John Hull joined the company as a field test driver and tractor development engineer in 1967, having previously worked for a Fordson tractor dealership in Berkshire.
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£9.95
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Down in the Valley (Paperback) - H W Freeman
Ref: 552B
The death of his mother releases Everard Mulliver from a duty-bound life and enables him to follow his instincts. With a new sense of freedom, his focus shifts from an inherited grocery business in Bury St Edmunds to an idyllic Suffolk village, where he buys a cottage.
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£7.95
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Farm Fatale (Hardback) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 681B
In the early 1990s Paul Heiney set aside his broadcasting career and swapped it for a life on the land. He decided that he would start his own farm and it would be like no other farm you could find.
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£12.99
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Farming Day by Day - The 1960s (Hardback) - John Winter
Ref: 513B
As the 1950s closed and rationing passed, farmers and their workers might have expected a golden age. After all, everyone acknowledged that British farming was one of the great success stories of the post-war era...
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£12.95
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Feeding the Nation (DVD) - New Classics
Ref: 276D
Formerly called Yesterday’s Farm
Archive footage drawn from ‘ITN Source’ reflects work in farming from the First World War to the 1960s. Farmers lived through half a century of debts, economic slump and two world wars during which agriculture changed for ever.
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£10.95
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Footsteps in the Furrow (Paperback) - Andrew Arbuckle
Ref: 576B
Would you like to know why they used a wheel-barrow to catch pests in the turnip field? Or where they spread fish much to the delight of the seagulls; or where you might have found 'loupers'? You will find these and hundreds of other facts from a farming heritage in this book.
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£9.95
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Good Living, A (Paperback) - Hugh Barrett
Ref: 522B
In his personal view of English farming from 1937 to 1949, Hugh Barrett takes us back to the assortment of farms with which he was involved from his late teens...
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Gwen and the Art of Tractor Travel (Paperback) - Josephine Roberts
Ref: 658B
As a heavily pregnant woman in possession of a vintage tractor, Gwen faces the question of a lifetime: how to do something special during her last few weeks of freedom? Her answer: to embark upon a solo tractor journey, travelling at twelve miles an hour through the Welsh countryside.
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Hack Goes West, A (Paperback) - Dylan Winter
Ref: 557B
As travelling companions on his 2,000-mile journey along the Oregon trail, Dylan Winter chooses Rocky, a retired rodeo horse, and Roland, a mixed up Appaloosa with a fear of bridges, bin liners and heights.
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£7.95
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In the Driving Seat (Paperback) - Alex Heymer
Ref: 581B
Forty-four years driving for a living have given Alex Heymer a wealth of stories ...
Alex always wanted to be a driver, like his father, and learned at a very young age. During his national service he drove for the RAF, and then went on to trolleybuses for London Transport. He returned to London Transport later to drive RTs and Routemasters. He has lots of tales about driver shenanigans on the trolleybuses and buses.
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£9.95
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Inside Massey Ferguson - a story of service (Paperback) - David Walker
Ref: 664B
In his autobiography, 'Inside Massey Ferguson - A Story of Service', former Massey Ferguson employee David Walker provides an unparalleled insight into what it was like to work in the service department of the world’s largest tractor manufacturer during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
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£13.95
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I Walked by Night (Paperback) - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard
Ref: 592B
Subtitled ‘the philosophy of the King of the Norfolk poachers, written by Himself’, this pot-pourri of autobiography, rural verse and philosophising has long been recognised as a rural classic. The superb illustrations by Edward Seago bring the text to life and remain long in the reader’s memory.
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£19.95
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Joseph and His Brethren (Paperback) - H W Freeman
Ref: 527B
Joseph and his Brethren follows the story of a Suffolk farming family through two generations. When Benjamin Geaiter purchases the run down Crakenhill Farm his presence is soon felt in the neighbouring villages...
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Juggernaut Drivers (Paperback) - Leslie Purdon
Ref: 554B
It's the 1970's. Trucker Dennis Richardson (Rich) revels in the laughter and camaraderie of his life on the road. He sets up a transport company, North Kent, with two pals. Benny is the one with the short fuse; Rich tries to calm him down - when he's not winding him up . . .
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£6.95
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Not All Sunshine & Sand: the tales of a UK - Middle East truck driver (Paperback) - Paul Rowlands
Ref: 605B
Paul Rowlands takes us into his world as a truck driver, initially around rural Suffolk and the rest of the UK, before embarking on the Middle East run. Here he recalls his hair-raising experiences - some of them humorous, some alarming - and the many friends he made.
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The King of the Norfolk Poachers: his life and times (Hardback)- Charlotte Paton
Ref: 568B
"If I had my time to come over again I would still be what I have been a poacher. So I remain, Gentlemen, The Ex King of the Norfolk Poachers." The name of the poacher was Frederick Rolfe - Charlotte Paton has researched his life and written his biography.
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£19.95
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Rabbit Skin Cap, The (Paperback) - Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard
Ref: 593B
The wearer of the rabbit skin cap was George Baldry, born in the middle of the nineteenth century near Beccles on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was a true country lad at a time when youngsters were flocking from the countryside to the town and the old simple ways were disappearing forever.
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£19.95
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Ron Creasey: last of the horselads (Hardback) - William Castle
Ref: 663B
This is the story of East Yorkshireman Ron Creasey, one of the last farm horsemen to find work at a hiring fair in 1946. He was just seventeen.
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£19.95
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Starks' Harvesters (Paperback) - Robert S White
Ref: 600B
In May 1979 two young Englishmen travelled to Oklahoma to become members of Dale Starksharvesting crew. For Rob and Charlie this was the start of memorable years driving Massey Ferguson combines the length and breadth of the American wheat belt.
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£9.95
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Strong Farmer: the memoirs of Joe Ward (Paperback) - Ciaran Buckley and Chris Ward
Ref: 585B
Ciaran Buckley uses interviews which Chris Ward conducted with her father Joe to view recent Irish history through the lens of one prominent family. He brilliantly weaves together the threads of history and family memory to tell a tale of farming, politics and unbreakable family ties.
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The Truth Behind 'I Walked by Night' (DVD) - Peter Hodges and Charlotte Paton
Ref: 261D
In her book The King of the Norfolk Poachers Charlotte Paton described the results of her search for Frederick Rolfe’s real life, comparing it with the account published in Lilias Rider Haggard's book I Walked by Night. In this companion DVD Charlotte shows how she went about her search and interviews people associated with Rolfe and his world.
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£15.95
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Traditional Farming Year, The (Hardback) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 545B
For ten years broadcaster Paul Heiney ran his own Suffolk farm with horse rather than tractor. In this book Paul draws on his experience in order to describe month-by-month a farming year that our great-grandparents might have recognized...
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£17.95
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Truckers North Truckers South (Paperback) - Leslie Purdon
Ref: 560B
This is a story of a young man starting his career in road transport.
In 1945 17-year-old Shay becomes a trailer-boy on an Atkinson lorry that is noisy, cold and limited in speed. Driver Fred is one of the old school and knows the best cafés, pubs and all the tricks of the trade...
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Victorian Summer, A (DVD) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 813D
This beautifully filmed Anglia television series presented by Paul Heiney takes you back to an era when farming methods revolved around the horse and the life of a village was dependent on its farms...
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£19.95
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Victorian Winter & Spring, A (DVD) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 803D
Victorian farming wasn’t all about making hay while the sun shone. There were tough winters and hectic springs to provide plenty of challenges for the hard-working farmer.
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£24.95
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A Wartime Winter & Summer (DVD) - Paul Heiney
Ref: 866D
When the Second World War broke out Britain faced much more than a military crisis. Two-thirds of our food was imported, but these imports were immediately halted by the German blockade. If Britain was not to starve, it had to do two things: reduce consumption of food in the home and increase production on the farm
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£24.95
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We Waved to the Baker (Hardback) - Andrew Arbuckle
Ref: 589B
We Waved to the Baker is an evocative and heart-warming collection of stories from Andrew Arbuckle’s youth in Fife. Through the fresh gaze of childhood, he depicts the rugged hard work of life on the farm, while capturing beautifully the essence of growing up in a boisterous family and a close rural community.
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£12.95
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Yesterday’s Farm - East Anglia and beyond (DVD) - New Classics
Ref: not-available
Now called Feeding the Nation
link to Feeding the Nation
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