Introducing Bernard Ellis

Early life in Hickling

From Haddiscoe to Hickling

Thorpe Grammar School

Early farm mechanisation

Writtle College and into farming

The District Trials Officer

Mervyn Gibbs

Sprout trimming

The farming week

Potatoes at Waxham

Potato contracts

On potatoes and crisps

Droughts - 1975 & 1976

Wet winters

Skating on the Broad

The Hall destroyed by fire

Sprouts and potatoes

More of Bernard’s memories -  2

Sprouts and potatoes

Bernard talks about hand trimming sprouts - and the standards to which Birds Eye expected the trimming to be done.  Later the trimming was done by machine.  In this clip he also talks about harvesting potatoes.