29-06-2019, 07:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 29-06-2019, 07:48 AM by Duncan Grimmond.)
We are on the last day of our holiday in Northumberland and during a chat over dinner in the Ship Inn last nigh I decided to do a little research into the buildings.
To my amusement this appeared in a National Trust paper i turned up:
The food shortages of the war resulted in many fields being ploughed which had not been ploughed before (or at least within anyone’s memory). Horses were still used to plough during the war, but gradually small tractors came into use with two furrowed ploughs. (ibid)
One night after cutting round and round the bog field, we had all of the rabbits in the middle. A good few villagers came and we caught over two hundred and fifty. The rabbit catcher put them into his Austin Seven car after giving one to everyone there. Then, him and Mr Gregory, the farmer, went to the “Ship Inn”, got drunk, went home to Seahouses and forgot to take them out. In the morning they were all gone.
To my amusement this appeared in a National Trust paper i turned up:
The food shortages of the war resulted in many fields being ploughed which had not been ploughed before (or at least within anyone’s memory). Horses were still used to plough during the war, but gradually small tractors came into use with two furrowed ploughs. (ibid)
One night after cutting round and round the bog field, we had all of the rabbits in the middle. A good few villagers came and we caught over two hundred and fifty. The rabbit catcher put them into his Austin Seven car after giving one to everyone there. Then, him and Mr Gregory, the farmer, went to the “Ship Inn”, got drunk, went home to Seahouses and forgot to take them out. In the morning they were all gone.
