| Description | DOB: 1891
DOD: 16th April 1955
Born 1891 at Edwinstowe, Sherwood Forest.
Father was a cowman. Fred had 3 sisters
Attended School till age 13
Family moved to Yorkshire after Fred's birth.
Left home at age 14 and lived at Moot Hall Farm, Coldwell Green. Then, lived again at home, and later at Sheffield (1925-7).
Christian
Read widely, and keenly interested in literature, drama and the theatre.
Jointed Workers' Educational Association in 1933. published various works, mostly on farming, including; life on the land (1941), the farming front (1943), Jesse and his friends (1945), songs of Sherwood (1948), and The commoners (1950).
Twice married
3 children
Farm Labourer, with a Prefatory Letter by the Duke of Portland
Farm boy (1904-6); worked for railway construction company hitching horses to wagons (1906); farm labourer (1906-10); carter (1910-12); labourer at a colliery (1912-14); sulphate house attendant at the colliery, until the strike of 1921; farm labourer, horseman, cowman and milk rounds-man (1925).
Reading, literature, drama and theatre.
Strike [1921]
6 pp typewritten, excerpts from “Brother to the Ox”. 2pp MS. |