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
Jack learned his thatching skills “as I went, more or less”.
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