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August 6, 2009

Northumberland traditions: Making a Geordie cracket (stool)

By Dr Clive Dalton What's a cracket? In Victorian times and into the 1950s, houses in the North East of England used to be litte...

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Dr Clive Dalton: Dr Clive Dalton studied agriculture in UK before teaching animal production at Leeds University. He came to New Zealand to do hill country animal research and then extension/promotion at the Ruakura Research Centre.

Before retirement he taught agriculture at the Waikato Polytechnic. He was awarded the Landcorp Communicator of the Year Award, the Sir Arthur Ward Award for Agricultural Communication, and is an Honorary Life Member of the NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists & Communicators.

He is currently an agricultural journalist and technical editor for the website www.lifestyleblock.co.nz, and can be contacted on clive.dalton@gmail.com

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