Secrets of Bredon Hill

By: Fred Archer

Narrated by: Brian Hewlett

The local newspaper of 1900 covered the weekly happenings of men, farming, and weather, but what of the Secret Things that were not reported in the papers that first year of the new century? Fred Archer resurrects the way of life of the village folk: how they lived in the cottages tucked away in every coomb under the hill, an outcrop of the Cotswolds that lies between them and the Malverns like a stranded whale, where the beech trees thrive on the limestone, overlooking the snaking Avon river.

Here is the true smell of the hayloft and the farmyard, a documented account, month by month, of the year 1900 in a Cotswold village.

©1971 Fred Archer (P)2001 Isis Publishing Ltd