Ian spent his childhood on various farms and has lived on the same property since he was 13. When Ian left school at 15, he went to work on a local farm and remembers that he was keen on ploughing matches.
In the blood
“The family originally had a rented farm near Chester,” he said. “Things were difficult at the end of the Second World War, but my father got work as a farm manager. We eventually moved into a five-acre smallholding and have been here ever since. I’ve been driving tractors all my life, and even though I am in my eighties, I still take part in working days and ploughing matches.
“I was never keen on working with farm animals, I much preferred ploughing and driving tractors. I’ve driven any number of different machines over the years and have always liked Ford and Case.”
Contracting
By his early twenties, Ian was driving tractors for a living. “Farm workers were exempt from National Service,
