Wigan Album

Thats a good old fashioned word you dont hear these days DTease....shippon.

One of the Marsden brothers farms Dtease. True story is this, back in the 1930s my granddad was a rat catcher ( vermin control expert ) anyway, granddad spent more or less an entire day clearing the farm buildings of rats and mice collecting several bags full. Farmers being farmers did not want to pay the going rate so gave granddad just a few shillings. Granddad took the money politely said "thank you" and tipped the bags containing life rats out onto the farm yard, pointing out that what he had been paid did not cover the live ones. I believe there were many-many running back to the barn.

Great story walt with a Pied Piper sense of justice to it.

Name: Robert Marsden
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Birth Date: 17 Jan 1911
Residence Year: 1939
Address: Hilton Farm
Residence Place: Aspull, Lancashire, England
Occupation: Arable & Dairy Farmer Heavy Worker Own Account Household Members:
Name
Robert Marsden Farmer
Jane Marsden Elementary School Teacher
Elizabeth Marsden Elementary School Teacher
John Marsden Arable & Dairy Farmer Heavy Worker Own Account

Helen, I suppose they would call it a “Milking Parlour” now which doesn’t sound right to me.

Walt, I bet the rats weren’t complaining though.

I seem to recall that you could buy unpasteurised "raw" Green Top Milk from this farm in the 1950s. I certainly recall as a young boy back then having a glass of milk at the farm.

I remember when on holiday in Scotland many years ago my sister & I would take a metal can to the farm for milk that was only put through a cooler. My daughter in Kent buys raw milk from a local farm & here in Norfolk you can buy it as well. Seems to be the thing today, I prefer semi skimmed in a bottle !

This is where I had my Saturday job, packing eggs. I lived over the way in Manor Grove. Mr & Mrs Marden and their daughter Janet. My grandma was friends with Mrs Marsden