A collection of short stories based for the most part on the
writer's experience of growing up and working on a Shropshire
estate where his father was head gamekeeper and grandfather managed
its home farm. They are of particular interest because they portray
everyday life in that part of the British countryside through years
which witnessed the beginnings of the momentous social and agrarian
upheaval triggered by the Second World War. The writer describes
the surge in agricultural mechanisation which has continued to the
present day; also farming as practiced before its current reliance
on chemical fertilizers and spray chemicals: acreages which used to
employ ten men now employ but one. It should be stressed these
stories and anecdotes are not an exercise in nostalgia. Instead
they are a fractual record of the countryside which the writer knew
so intimately, and as such, contain a wealth of interest for many.
So great have been the changes over the last seventy five years, it
is but small wonder the younger generation struggle even to begin
to imagine life as it was at that time.
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