{"id":379,"date":"2015-05-29T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirtlingandupend.org\/wp\/?page_id=379"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T09:19:15","slug":"place-farm-part-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/?page_id=379","title":{"rendered":"Place Farm Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it was time for me to go back to London it was also harvest and I asked to be allowed to stay to help. A threshing machine duly arrived with a suitable tractor with a driving pulley and was set up in a field across the road. I probably saved a nasty accident there. I noticed that one of the wooden suspension bars for the riddles was about to break and they were very grateful for that.<\/p>\n

They were not so grateful though when I had been asked to carry a flask of tea from the house over to the workers and the carrier bag must have had a wet bottom and the flask fell through and smashed! Not my fault. Honest!<\/p>\n

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Mr Bowyer at harvesting time<\/p><\/div>\n

I cannot remember the names of many of the staff who worked at the farm but there was a charming young housemaid called Cissie Ransome from Cowlinge. I had a soft spot for her. I think Ransome is a local surname so her relatives may still be around.<\/p>\n

I had to attend the local school there and the head master was Mr.Lamb. I was not happy there because of bullying by the other boys. I don’t think they liked Londoners intruding but I was not there long, only until the harvest break. At haymaking time I used to drive a white horse round and round and round to operate the elevator. I walked behind it. Sometimes not very pleasant!<\/p>\n

Next: Part 8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it was time for me to go back to London it was also harvest and I asked to be allowed to stay to help. A threshing machine duly arrived with a suitable tractor with a driving pulley and was set up in a field across the road. I probably saved a nasty accident there. I noticed that one of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":89,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-379","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379\/revisions\/1432"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirtlingandupend.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}