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Steep Marsh
A Memory of Steep Marsh.
My Parents worked for Mr Bertie Allam who farmed at Downgate Farm and we moved into Nine Acres when they were new in 1953. I had a Saturday job at Bowyers when the Stables were owned by the Gammon Family cleaning the Tack and mucking out, we used to take a string of horses by road up to Little Bushy for grazing. My school friends lived opposite when we had spare time we used to play on the Clay Pit rail carts that ran on metal tracks, I think a Mr Mawson owned the Pit. When we were old enough we helped on the farms with corn cart, potato picking, cow cabbage cart, sugar beet hoeing and harvesting, taking the results to Liss Station for onward rail movement. I can also remember having time off from school to help the farmer when the weather had been poor and gathering in the harvest. My mother and farther had worked for Mr and Mrs Allam for some 26years starting off when the farmer rented Marsh Farm and then onto Downgate, in that time Dad was a champion Milkman, Ploughman and Rick builder/thatcher we moved away in 1957.
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