Donald Emery on Hedgerows

One of my skills if you like was  hedge laying and I used to lay  all through the winter and when I was on the Mainland not on the Island, I would be hedge laying and  you used to cut and lay a hedge to  take a fence down.

But then of course as more food was needed, the farmers came under pressure and even at Yaverland, a lot of the hedges were grubbed out to make the fields bigger.

Now of course they’re planting the hedges again (laughs).

That certainly did …  there was an awful lot of ground clearance that went on which wasn’t necessarily a good thing now, with hindsight.

But hindsight is all a good thing isn’t it?