100 years of keepering WISDOM AND TRADITIONS GATHERED OVER A LIFE AT THE COALFACE, THIS WEEK WITH LINDSAY WADDELL
It’s fair to say that the fairer sex, if I dare use that term these days, have often had a hard life in rural Britain — from domestic service to gutting fish that came off the herring boats, the hours could be long and the pay was poor.
Interestingly, it is often imagined that keepers in the past were all men, which isn’t entirely accurate. Some readers may have heard