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The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s
...children at the time of filming in 1983. William, the elder son was farming, but his approach was commercial rather than farming for subsistence. His younger brother Norman worked in a local factory, thereby avoiding emigration, farming and the ‘dole’ (unemployment). Charles Fuller retired from farming in the early 1980s and, in the programme, he and Gladys recalled...