Saturday, 25 November 2017

'of what avail the plough or soil on land, or life if freedom fail' Ralph Waldo Emerson ( an English farmers last stand )



I FIRST CAME ACROSS THIS STORY IN BELOW TV SERIES.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mmt8t


THOUGHT IT WORTH DEVELOPING AND PASSING ON

http://hampshireconstabularyhistory.org.uk/?page_id=586

THE SIEGE AT BOROUGH FARM - alresfordhistandlit.co.uk

www.alresfordhistandlit.co.uk/74 The Siege at Borough Farm.pdf · PDF file
THE SIEGE AT BOROUGH FARM By Jane Underwood 'of what avail the plough or soil on land, or life if freedom fail' Ralph Waldo Emerson The site of Borough Farm is situate at the extreme northern tip of the long and narrow Ovington parish, where it is surrounded by the adjoining parishes of Itchen Stoke, Old Alresford, New Alresford and Tichborne

NO 74 THE SIEGE AT BOROUGH FARM - About Alresford

www.alresford.org/displayed/displayed_17_05.phpThe siege at Borough Farm, by the police, lasted for nearly twenty four hours. ... History of Itchen Stoke - Isabel Sanderson Modern Rural Rides - George Winder 1964


Death of a farmer: the strange case of George Walden

www.4liberty.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/death-of-a-farmer... · DOC file · Web view
On the 22 and 23 July the siege of Borough Farm took place, likened by one reporter to a ‘rural Sidney Street’.


http://www.alresfordhistandlit.co.uk/Alresford%20Articles%20No%204%20v10.pdf


https://core.ac.uk/display/16413732


OTHER INFORMATION:

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1941/oct/09/agriculture-dispossessed-farmers


SHAMEFUL HARVEST by A. G. STREET
Dedicated - To the memory of George Raymond Walden of Itchen Stoke, Hampshire who lost his life on July 22nd 1940, while resisting eviction from his house at the order of the Hampshire County War Agricultural Executive •Committee.

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/shameful-harvest/author/a-g-street/


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