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Andrew Groves on Butter

Trevor Strickland on Tractor | Andrew Groves on Slaughterhouse
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He was coming back from Sandown, taking the butter to Sandown.

Used to make butter and take it to Sandown, that’s where he was coming back from. Yeah. Butter and eggs he’d take to Sandown.

I don’t know how they survived ‘cos there was only like about 14 or 15 cows they had a living, there was a heap of ‘em, how they made a living out of it, ‘cos there was Granfer, Gilbert his son, couple of daughters there as well, you know, and Granny. To feed five out of these few cows … yes, they used to make the butter and..

Andrew Groves

Andrew Groves portrait by Julian Winslow

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