Rosemary Harding, Part 3

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Rosemary Harding CH3   Duration: 3:17

CB:  Lovely.   So, number sixteen.(RH016)

Rosemary:  This is in Mr. Dalgetty’s corral; and [5.75] [information redacted] is putting the thing across the corral so they can put a ring in the bull’s mouth.

CB:  Yes, and remind me what breed he is?

Rosemary:  He’s a Galloway. 

CB:  Galloway.

Rosemary:  Belted Galloway, yeah.

CB:  Lovely.  So, number seventeen (RH017), a lovely farm scene –

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Rosemary:  Well this is at Dalgetty’s again and Mert the dog trying to bring the cattle back and one’s trying to jump the fence.

CB:  He’s got his front legs right up –

Rosemary:  In the wire.  It’s like chicken wire, isn’t it.

CB:  Oh it is, yeah;  d’you know any of these people here?

Rosemary:  Well that’s [34.55] [information redacted] again,

CB; with his back to us, but who – ;

Rosemary:  that’s my dad there –

CB:  Oh, I see, in the very far –

Rosemary:  Yeah.

CB:  Right hand corner.

Rosemary:  So I suppose they stopped so many going back these two who broke away and Mert the dog,

CB:  Gone back to get them.  Lovely.  Okay, so on to number eighteen. (RH018)

Rosemary:  This is again in the ‘fifties in Mr. Dalgetty’s, in the Crush and it looks like my dad is going to lasso it.

CB:  Yes.

Rosemary ‘Cos he used to get a lot of Forest Eye, you see.

CB:  Yeah.

Rosemary:  And then he used to treat them.

CB:  With the Forest Eye…

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:  He’s already got his jumper off and chucked it on the floor from the look of it.  And that he’s all poised ready with his rope halter –

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:  Lovely.  And number nineteen. (RH019)

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Rosemary:  This is my dad in the late ‘fifties, delivering one of his own calves.

CB:  And that was on this farm.

Rosemary: On this farm here, yes.

CB:  So that’s one of his own, is it?

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:  What breed was that, do you think?

Rosemary:  They were Galloways

CB:  Oh, they were Galloways.

Rosemary:  They were to start with.  Then we went to Charolais.  ‘Cos I think dad crossed them.

CB:  Yeah.

Rosemary:  Yeah. In the end. We had Charolais in the end.

CB:  Okay, so number twenty. (RH020)

Rosemary:  This is my dad again at Mr. Dalgetty’s farm.  [1:48.8] [information redacted]’s on the motor bike, driving up the bull and my dad’s on Sandy behind.

CB:  Oh yes, lovely!  Photograph number twenty-one. (RH021)

Rosemary:  This is of the three Agisters.  My dad’s in the middle; to my left is Raymond Bennett, to my right is Brian Ingram.

CB:  A very young looking Brian Ingram.

Rosemary:  Yes, and Raymond Bennett.  I don’t know what year it is.

CB:  No.

Rosemary:  I’d say it was late ‘sixties, most probably.

CB:  Yes.  Beautiful shiny boots.

Rosemary:  Mmm.

CB:  Number twenty-two. (RH022)

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Rosemary:  These are my dad’s pride and joy.  His cattle outside his gate, in the winter.  In the ‘seventies.

CB:  In the ‘seventies. And there’s snow on the ground.

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:   Now they look – ooh, what are these with the black nose and the black –

Rosemary:  Well, they are Charolais.

CB:  They’re Charolais.

Rosemary:  Yes, Charolais Cross.

CB:  Okay.

Rosemary:  And then we had some Herefords and they were Charolais Cross as well.

CB: So did they come home to eat or did you – ?

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:   Take food out –

Rosemary:  No.

CB:  They came home.

Rosemary:  They came home.  If it was going to be cold, they were home at one o’clock.

CB:  Okay.

Rosemary:  If it was going to be warm they didn’t come home till gone three, but they’d come home every day.

CB:  Did they then stay in all night or just for a few hours? 

Rosemary:  All night.

CB:  All night, then you put them out again in the morning.

Rosemary:  Yes.

CB:  Lovely.  So, twenty-three. (RH023)  Another beautiful scenic –

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Rosemary:  This is out on the Common in front of our gate.  My dad’s cattle again. And that’s got to be in the ‘seventies.

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