Articles tagged Hall Farm:
A Fire at the Farm
- 21 Feb 2009
Well, if you've been following my Twitter feed you'll know that it's been quite an evening at Dale Towers near Saffron Walden. We've been spending the weekend with my parents at their farm (where I grew up) in Ashdon. At about 9pm my partner John went out for a smoke and ca...
Meteorite Fell on the Dale Homestead in 1923
- 27 May 2006
I've just found a story from The Times from 7 June 1923 which relates the tale of a meteorite falling on my father's farm in Ashdon, near Saffron Walden in Essex. According to the website there have only been twelve such instances in the last 100 years. The Natural...
What Will be in the Saturday Papers?
- 8 May 2006
Back in the mid 1970s my Father decided he wanted to show me how they used to harvest wheat in "the olden days" ie when he was my age. So he bought an old binder - the forerunner of the Combine Harvester. He then grew wheat which produced straw which could be made into 'corn...