Emesly & Collins Fruit Farm

[AlanBoyd]

Millgate runs due south from Whaplode for about 3 miles, meeting Raven’s Bank.

[AlanBoyd]

The land purchases that Hanes Teulu found are advertised in the previous week in the Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian 24 August 1912. Looking at the lots for sale in Whaplode it is possible to identify some of those bought by Emsley & Collins as:

Lot 10: All that farm on Raven Bank on the west  side of Sycamore Farm (31 acres)
Lot 12: A close of grassland on Hurdle Tree Bank (19 acres)
Lot 13: Two closes of grassland on Hurdle Tree Bank (32 acres)
(Tenants of these lots Thomas and William Barker)

On the map linked here: https://maps.nls.uk/view/114654576, Sycamore Farm can be seen at the bottom, just where the road from Whaplode St Catherine (Raven Bank) runs off the map. Millgate is the road running north from the village, bisecting the map, and Hurdle Tree Bank is the road running east-west at the top of the map. That whole area is labelled as Whaplode Fen. I think the fruit farm must have been in the western part of this map, south of Hurdle Tree Bank.

[hanes teulu]

AB - I can almost see the fruit growing!

[AlanBoyd]

What fruit is it, almost?

[AllanUK]

Thank you all for your replies and links.

[hanes teulu]

What fruit is it, almost?

I cannot see over the hedge. But I think there's a problem. They can't recruit enough locally to pick, seems they're looking to Eastern Europe.