Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson Now back over the river Tees and up to the fringes of the Durham pit district, another da...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson My next encounter with a bull was in Baldersdale, one of those smaller offshoot valleys t...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson One of the disadvantages of fitting milking machines in that part of the world was the fa...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson Lead mine tailings in Upper Yorkshire Dales The next job was pretty well straight forwar...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Clive Dalton A tale Eric Wilson told me that he never got down on paper was his regular experience of ...

Farm Machinery in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson Photo: Limestone walls in Durham Dales But of course, all through the hectic activ...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson Invariably the farmer would suggest starting with “Betsy”. “Anybody can milk Betsy, she’...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson Following the horse-drawn gate sweeps and the pike bogey, the tractor mounted hay sweep h...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson In a bad season – weatherwise that is, the “good hay” previously mentioned came at a prem...

Farming in the North Pennine Dales By Eric Wilson It started to look as if t’ grass was going to grow despite the severe winter of 1947, an...

Eric Wilson - Profile George Eric Wilson was born in Barnard Castle in County Durham in England in 1921. He went to the local school and on...