The Book

Beyond the Farm Gate takes the reader back to a very different England — a world of farms, fields, village communities and country characters, where life was shaped by the seasons and hard work was simply part of everyday life.

Through personal memories, stories and photographs, the book offers a glimpse of rural England as it once was: a world of farming families, traditional ways of life, colourful characters and close-knit communities.

Much of that world has now disappeared. But its stories remain.