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[email protected] Non subscribers £1.50 1 V.I.P. Corner Peter Simpson Despite his advanced years, I found Peter wearing When asked what he disliked he had to think for his overalls ready for work, so it was no surprise that quite some time, then ‘growing old’ was selected. farming came top of his list of ‘Likes’. Indeed, he We both agreed that it was better than the worked up until 11 years ago, well past normal alternative though……! retirement age. Born opposite the existing school, his parents were from hard working stock. In the 1930’s, when times were very hard, two or three men from Suffolk came up the country looking for work and found it in Snainton and Wass, finally ending up at Bakers Farm in Slingsby. One of these resourceful men was Peter’s father. Mining was a family industry. His grandmother’s family were Ironstone Miners from Rosedale and on his wife’s side, her father had been a Coal Miner in West Yorkshire. A change of career from Coal Miner to Gamekeeper brought his wife’s father to work on one of Castle Howard’s subsidiary farms. Peter’s dad took up the tenancy of a 35 acre village farm in 1952. In those days, and perhaps even today, Peter looking very smart on a Cruising Holiday farming machinery can be highly dangerous and, tragically, his father lost a part of his right arm in an accident.