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Bryn Davies of North Wales had a grandfather, Thomas Davies of Bancer Farm, who was born in 1892 and who was, as Bryn says, “a man of the land”. Thomas Davies died aged 73 in 1965 when his grandson Bryn was just seven years old, but the old farmer left a lasting impression on Bryn and instilled in him a fondness for farming history that has remained with him to this day.
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“It’s amazing to think that my grandfather was born in the century before last,” says Bryn, “I was lucky to have had the pleasure of his company for a few years of my life, and I feel very privileged to have known him.” It is a wonderful thing to have first-hand knowledge of a person who was born and raised when horses and carts were still the everyday mode of transport, and where steam-powered technology was the norm. Mechanisation on farms and the advent of the motor car must have seemed mind-boggling to those who had been born into the simple pastoral life of the late 1800s, and
