Past Glory

Now for something completely different. These certificates and rosettes for prize winning hang behind glass inset into the wall of the old derelict dairy - from the times when an average herd was 30 cows rather than todays 250 cows. (We don't have dairy cows any more as it became too costly for what we were paid in return for the milk.) They are dated 1950 and were awarded by the Bridgwater Agricultural Society for best Guernsey cows and heifer. The Guernseys would have belonged to the farmer before us as we have only had British Friesians and now Herefords.

It is fun trying to trace the farm's history. Occasionally people turn up telling us how they were evacuated here from London during the war; or, how their ancestors used to farm this farm in the 1800's coming originally from Devon.

The most exciting relic from the past is an ox's shoe which tells us they would have had oxen ploughing and working on the land.

I wonder whether the farmer painted the dairy pink for his girls!