JACK’S MEMORIES:
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Introducing Jack Aldred
Early memories
Jack’s family
Evacuation to Retford
Escape from evacuation
Farm work and a plane crash
Doodlebug
Farming
Thatching
Reed and sedge cutting
A surfeit of vipers
Mechanisation…
Photo from family collection
Motorised reed cutters came in in the 1960s.
Jack describes the early machines, but says they were no quicker than cutting the reed with a scythe!
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