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Extracts from "Old Weaverham, A Pictorial History by the Weaverham History Society"
During the First World
War, George Henry Dean (below) trained land girls at Beach Hill Farm. The land
girl (left) is cutting hay with a mowing machine. The Land Army also operated in the district in the Second World War, using both horses and tractors. |
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Sergeant George Allen was a well-known village character who went to France with the local Territorials during the First World War as a Sergeant, (a title he kept for the rest of his life). He liked to put the world to rights in the Wheatsheaf Knowledge Room. Pictured with 'Old Bob' the horse he loved to work with on the farm at Hefferston after his retirement from ICI. Their combined ages were well over 100 years. This is Tom 'Slosher' Allen pictured with his favourite whippet 'Whiskey' who used to accompany him on poaching escapades. He also used to gather watercress and mushrooms which he sold in the Knowledge Room at the Wheatsheaf. |
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