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David Walton & Clarke Greenway

Topics discussed

TimeDescription
00.00Introductions
00.35Tysoe Methodist Church – changes in inter church relations – Sunday School church going.
03.15School – Methodist / Anglican divide (paying for school attendance)
05.30Clark Greenway’s family – end of a farming dynasty – continuity of first names.
06.42David Walton – family and farming
07.28Working while at school
08:50Farming in wartime
09.51POWs
10.50Land girls
13,31Finding wives & getting married
15.01War changed farming – tractors replaced horses – ploughing up fields
16.26Milk collection & other feats of strength
18.58Changes in farming after the war
19.07Going to market
19.5319 gates to Shipston
21.08Farmers starting out today – better off?
21.35A good story about travelling to Shipston as a boy (the origin of a thatch)
24.30Story about the iron rail against the beech tree
25.44When the road gates went
26.58Taking sheep to Banbury story
29.23Farming today – differences – is small farming finished?
33.15Story about scything labourer and a lost guinea
35.38Story about cutting a field of wheat
37.40Are farmers rich?
40.25Self-sufficiency of the village – food production including windmills & milling
43.48Field names
47.47[Ends]

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