Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 2187 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Teesdale Young Farmers Clubs speaking competition
Covering Dates: 1944
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Teesdale Young Farmers' Clubs Speaking Competition (Ref: D/X 2187/1-2)Ref: D/X 2187/1
Draft of speech entitled 'I Want to be a Farmer' by John Emmerson Forster, 12 years old, representing the Woodland Young Farmers' Club, given at Teesdale young Farmers' Clubs Speaking Competition, 20 May 1944
Describes an ideal mixed farm, well located, with cattle, sheep, work horses, poultry and some arable land.
[Mr Forster comments that it was only shortly afterwards that small affordable tractors were introduced and work horses disappeared]
(2 papers)
Ref: D/X 2187/2Page from The Teesdale Mercury reporting on the inaugural Teesdale Young Farmers' Clubs Speaking Competition and including the texts of the winning speeches, 24 May 1944
John Forster came second.
(2 papers)
