Somerset Voices: Froude Hill (b1899)

Froude Hill was born at Greenham near Wellington. His parents moved to a farm called Farm Estate at Fiddington in 1908. The first tractor arrived on the farm 1917. His father was only the second farmer in the locality to have a tractor, and older farmers were suspicious of the new technology.

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