Tractor & Farming Heritage

JOE’S CALF

was looking back through a “Kelly’s Directory” of Twenties vintage, and it reminded me how much things have changed in my lifetime. There are probably only half a dozen active farmers based in our village now, whereas according to the directory there was a score of assorted farmers, smallholders, and poulterers, some of whom it

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