Interview with Francis William Bird

Talks about life working on Cream Lodge Farm, Barrow on Soar, Leicester. Describes daily routine, use of horses, crop rotation, first tractor (a Fordson), harvest, milking by hand and machine, calving, marketing and selling milk. Describes the farm and farmhouse, gaining electricity, getting along with the Quorn hunt (fox hunting). Mentions useful role of National Farmers' Union regarding finances and relations with ministeries. Talks about leisure, social life, meeting wife, Land Army girls and Prisoners of War on farm during Second World War. Mentions a couple of accidents, children always helping on farm