Offchurch. Highland Cattle
Highland cattle at Offchurch. 1957
IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)
Reference: PH(N), 600/731/1, img: 9858
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From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, my father worked for Henry Johnson, who lived at the Bury in Offchurch. My father was head herdsman at Ford Farm and used to be responsible for the Highland cattle. He used to show them at the Royal Agricultural Show in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. I remember he used to meet me with a Highland bull in tow when I walked home from school, to get it used to traffic and noise for when he showed it at the Show. The bull was always well behaved, apart from one day when a steamroller trundled very noisily by. I hid in a ditch until my dad had calmed down the bull which was rearing up on its back legs!
My Gt Aunt name of West worked for Mr Johnson, she was a land girl, she lived their all her life and was laid to rest in Offchurch church.
Laura and Ada where both sister (West’s) they both worked their later i think left, think it was Laura who stayed. Her mother and father lived in little Kineton, they worked for Lord Willoughby de brook. The west family originally came from Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire
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