95-year-old alumnus Albert Bailey returned to campus to reminisce during our 100th anniversary, almost eighty years after studying Horticulture with us in the 1940s. During Albert’s visit to Reaseheath in November 2022, he shared his memories with staff and toured parts of campus, including our Main Hall and horticulture facilities to see how they have […]
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John Ketteridge, Cheshire School of Agriculture, 1962 – 1963 I was first introduced to farming on a ‘ten-day schoolboy course’ at Reaseheath in July 1957, when the College was known as the Cheshire ‘School’ of Agriculture. I then left Reaseheath to gain further work experience on Cheshire farms and returned as a full-time student at
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Cheshire School of Agriculture alumnus Martin Bourne shares his fantastic memories from his time studying with us in 1952/53. I saw an advertisement in either the Farmer and Stockbreeder or the Farmers Weekly (we used to read both from cover to cover) for government funded scholarships, tenable at any farm institute in the country. There
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Past Reaseheath College Countryside Lecturer Leigh Cawley, who also studied with us in the 1970s, shares his memories and stories about the wonderful trees we have on campus, some of which are hundreds of years old.
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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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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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Article written by W A Carr (pictured) in 1971 This is Jubilee Year for Reaseheath. Members may be interested to know what the place was like in 1921. Few can have any idea of farming conditions at that time and the difficulties we experienced in founding Reaseheath 50 years ago. South Cheshire was almost entirely under permanent grass and farming
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Written by Gillian Butters (nee Mainwaring) in August 2020 I attended Reaseheath in 1958/59, when it was known as The Cheshire School of Agriculture. It was a two year course, the first year spent on a farm, learning the basics but also to ascertain whether you were suited to the outdoor life. I was not
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Account written by former Reaseheath Vice Principal Geoff Briggs, pictured above with his wife Sue, at their 50th wedding anniversary 1968 was a very good year for me, despite the dreadful experience of Foot and Mouth disease during the early months. I was fortunate enough to be appointed to teach farm machinery in the rapidly
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Reaseheath alumnus Lorraine Evans contacted Reaseheath Alumni Association after a recent visit to our annual Live Lambing event. We were delighted to hear some fantastic news from Lorraine along with a selection of recollections from her time at the Cheshire College of Agriculture. Former Reaseheath student Lorraine Evans (nee Boydell) recently celebrated her 33rd wedding anniversary to husband and fellow
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