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People and place: an outstanding archive of rural Britain

4 November 2017

9:00 AM

4 November 2017

9:00 AM

In 1970 I wandered around an unfamiliar part of West Devon. Down a grassy lane I came across a farmyard in which stood three circular hay stacks, each beautifully thatched. It resembled a picture by the 18th-century painter George Morland. There was nobody about and the yard had a haunted air.

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