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 REPRESENTATIVES of the local farming
community were among those who attended a reception at the Museum on September 30 to launch
the "Discovering More Lost Farms" exhibition.
As well as cards with a
photograph of the former farms as they are today and details about them,
the exhibition has displays of farming implements and pages from an old
calendar produced for farmers by a local company, Bibby's.
Robert Stones, Chairman of
Nantwich Museum Trust, introduced Brian Moore, one of the two organisers
of the exhibition (the other is local historian Andrew Lamberton).
Keith Chesters, one-time farm
manager (for 44 years) for Joseph Heler Cheese who sponsored the
exhibition gave some reasons why farms may have been lost. He is now a
farms inspector for the Red Tractor assured food standards scheme.
He is pictured (left) with
Brian Moore discussing a 60- to 70-year-old 17-gallon milk churn. Its
wider base than today's churns gave it more stability when transported
by horse and cart or train. The churns were returned to the railway
station from which they were sent.
Last year, Brian was the
sole organiser of an exhibition showing lost farms in the Community
Gallery.
The
speeches
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