Interview with Stanley Colin Siddons

Talks about farm, family at Lower Broombridge near Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire. Describes harvesting, delivering milk, meals eaten on certain days, lack of regular holidays. Brief description of school at Woodhouse Eaves. Thumbnail sketch of practical father. Describes how severe snow of 1947 created a lot of work. Mentions various ways earnt money, first tractor in 1936, outbreak of foot and mouth, local vet. Mention of accident while threshing, machinery being sold at farm sales. Talks about champion bull which wouldn't allow vet near. Describes meeting wife, social life, dances. Mentions having to plough meadows during Second World War, being in disorganised Home Guard. Brief mention of Land Girls, German Prisoners of War, Americans, rationing, bombs falling locally