Under the Walnut Trees
At just eleven years old Mary White could drive a tractor, milk a cow and drench a sheep, but she had never been to a shop on her own or actually purchased anything. Such was life growing up in deepest Devon when your only mode of transport was a 1930s Fordson spade-lug tractor.


Under the Walnut Trees is a ramble through author Mary White's childhood years, and gives many of the small details of life growing up on a farm during the 1940s and 1950s. This is also the story of some of her family's history.


Journey back to a far off and very different time and meet a varied cast of friends and relatives, including cameos from Land Girls and German Prisoners of War, whose lives intertwined to provide the fabric for a special and unique rural childhood
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Under the Walnut Trees
At just eleven years old Mary White could drive a tractor, milk a cow and drench a sheep, but she had never been to a shop on her own or actually purchased anything. Such was life growing up in deepest Devon when your only mode of transport was a 1930s Fordson spade-lug tractor.


Under the Walnut Trees is a ramble through author Mary White's childhood years, and gives many of the small details of life growing up on a farm during the 1940s and 1950s. This is also the story of some of her family's history.


Journey back to a far off and very different time and meet a varied cast of friends and relatives, including cameos from Land Girls and German Prisoners of War, whose lives intertwined to provide the fabric for a special and unique rural childhood
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Under the Walnut Trees

Under the Walnut Trees

by Mary White
Under the Walnut Trees

Under the Walnut Trees

by Mary White

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Overview

At just eleven years old Mary White could drive a tractor, milk a cow and drench a sheep, but she had never been to a shop on her own or actually purchased anything. Such was life growing up in deepest Devon when your only mode of transport was a 1930s Fordson spade-lug tractor.


Under the Walnut Trees is a ramble through author Mary White's childhood years, and gives many of the small details of life growing up on a farm during the 1940s and 1950s. This is also the story of some of her family's history.


Journey back to a far off and very different time and meet a varied cast of friends and relatives, including cameos from Land Girls and German Prisoners of War, whose lives intertwined to provide the fabric for a special and unique rural childhood

Product Details

BN ID: 2940162625100
Publisher: Matador Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 02/09/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 15 MB
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About the Author

Mary White is a farmer's daughter who lived and worked on the family farm in North Devon during the 1940s and 1950s. Although she moved away while training to become a teacher, and then had teaching jobs in Bristol and also Vancouver, she returned to Devon once more to continue her career and raise her family.
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