Denis Pickles
Norfolk
Friday, February 22, 2008 16:16 |
Baxters of Bay Horse Farm
Are the Baxter lads, David and Norman still living in Sutton? And the younger brother, Percy? |
Duncan McHenry
Halifax
Friday, February 22, 2008 22:45 |
I thought the youngest brother was called Peter. |
Denis Pickles
Norfolk
Friday, February 22, 2008 23:51 |
You are most probably right Duncan. All I know for sure that he played for Keighley Boys Grammar School Ist XV 1955-56 and the photo I've just been looking at has him listed as P T Baxter. |
Kevin Bainbridge
Monday, February 25, 2008 18:13 |
Denis
My dad confirms that Norman is still around in the village - he was chatting with him 3 or 4 weeks ago. He had a house built in the corner of the field that was used for sledging in winter (the one with the underground reservoir in it) off Park Lane across the corner from the hostel. Dad wonders if Percy was Norman's dad - used to have a farm in Liverpool before he came to Bay Horse Farm - village legend had it that the cows had never seen a field before! Was there another brother younger than Peter? He thinks that David & one of the other brothers might be living in Crosshills.
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Andrew Monkhouse
Monday, February 25, 2008 21:32 |
I wonder who has taken over Norman Baxter's farm ? Norman had a son called Malcolm who will now be around 40 years of age, but that’s not to say he followed in his father’s foot-steps.
The back garden of our house had a stone wall separating it from the fields belonging to Baxter's farm. I knew those fields that led up to Ravenstones like the back of my hand.
Progging for bonfire night and the coal-fire and in winter. Haymaking in the fields on those long summer evenings.
That's the only time I ever used to see David Baxter, during the haymaking season. He used to come over from Crosshills and attempt to 'supervise' all us kids who were jostling to drive the tractor and hitch a ride on top of the wobbling bails of hay stacked high on the trailer.
Rather precarious when I think back, but I never saw anyone get injured. Health and safety have probably since moved in and banned all that kind of fun stuff.
Norman was a great bloke too, I never saw him without his bobble hat all the years I knew him. Collecting the eggs, saving the barn kittens when there got too many of them, sealing the silver foil tops on the milk bottles and manure – spreading (it used be called something else starting with s !) were all on the curriculum.
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