Photo shows students butter churning at Reaseheath, taken around 1940 Doreen Taylor-Brown, a dairying student at Reaseheath from 1945, sent us this letter in 2021, sharing her experience of studying with us and what she went onto do in her career. I, Doreen Taylor-Brown (nee Pickwell) entered the college as a student studying dairying in […]
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Photo from the archive shows a Women’s Land Army recruit feeding calves Written by Betty Plant for our Reaseheath Association Magazine 1962 During World War II, the Cheshire School of Agriculture, Reaseheath, was used as a training centre for the Women’s Land Army and I was fortunate to be one of the many hundreds of
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Reaseheath: A Notable Year 1935-36 By Victor F. Dutton Included in Reaseheath Association Magazine 1961 I think it must have been the pleasant memories of happy days at Reaseheath which awakened me one hour before schedule – 1935 and 1936 in company with such colourful personalities as John Meldrum, Harold Morton, Harry Blackburn, Tom Kinsey,
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*Photo taken during a horticulture lesson in 1926* ‘A very old student looks back’: article written by Arthur L Barritt, who studied Horticulture at Reaseheath from 1931 – 1933. It was sent for inclusion in the Reaseheath Association 1962 edition. Since leaving Reaseheath in 1933 it may be fairly pertinent to say that a great
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Written by Mr G A Plowright (student at Reaseheath during 1921 – 22) for inclusion in the Reaseheath Association Magazine in 1958 I entered the School as a very serious and introspective young man. As far as studying agriculture was concerned, I remained serious but I soon found out that the place was full of characters,
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