Voices of Hickling: Poplar Farm
This page holds memories and comments from our “Voices” about Poplar Farm
Page updated 26/1/20
Terry Smith worked at Poplar Farm for 38 years,
and saw many changes during that period
More changes at Poplar Farm -
this time to vegetables and then potatoes
Here Terry Smith tells of a time when there were no animals at Poplar Farm (and the land deteriorated very quickly), of a venture into commercial onion growing and of a herd of pedigree Hereford cattle.
A written memory of the Annual Sports Day and Flower Show held at Poplar Farm in the 1920s
During the summer we had an Annual Sports Day on a meadow atPoplar Farm. Athletes from all the nearby villages came to compete with our Lamberts and Nudds. A large Flower Show was also part of this day - the heads of celery had o be seen to be believed. The secret of these huge heads lies in the fact that only earth closets were in use and this was buried in a trench across the garden - and what could celery or leeks want better than that!!!