1881 continued
Oct 14 At Bishops Castle Fair. Dreadful rough wind blew 5 apple trees down and many others on the farm
Nov 15 Messrs Bird & Evans here valuing the farm to reduce rent
Nov 19 At Newton on the Hill (John Vaughans
Nov 21 At Trefnanney marking 80 trees to sell
Nov 24 Pinning apple trees
Nov 29 My cousin Jeffrey Frank Poole died suddenly at Dinmore Station in the waiting room. Left 3 children
Dec 3 Attended J F Pooles funeral (Bodenham). Sold barley at 5/4 per B
Year 1882
Jan 16 Sold barley at 5/- per B
Feb 6 Sold wheat at 7/2 per B
Mar 8 At the sale at Little Brampton
Mar 21 Attended sale at Clunbury
Mar 28 Sale at Mrs Evans of Aston
Apr 4 At sale Williams’s of the (Newton)
May 5 School exam (attended)
May 11 Children ill with measles
May 31 Daughter (Emma) and Llandrindod a few days with Mrs Jones of Oswestry
June 10 Wool sold at 1/- per ib 70..0..0
June 17 Tom & Francis Poole of Birmingham here
June 22 Jeffrey & Tom Poole went to Brampton Briar House Horse Fair (an experience for the latter)
June 28 Began hay harvest had clover out 24 days
June 31 Edith went with Mrs Clarke to Scarborough
Aug 9 Bought some timber from Ludlow show yard
Aug 11 Finished hay, a very long & wet one
Aug 14 Began grain harvest. Finished sept 23rd
Aug 29 At sale at Hopesay Rectory, also one on Sept 5th
Oct 17 In Liverpool a few days
Nov 30 At sale at (late Hamar’s ?) of the Down
Dec 21 Paid half years rent (reduced to 250..0..0
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