Lovers And Newcomers
“Far from being a confined space, Jake’s study now became the entrance to a colonnade of years, each one marked off by summer in the fields, harvest, the Fifth procession, then Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, and the recorded dates of ploughing and sowing and rabbit shooting and occasional hunting. Polly noted the bills for the twice-yearly visits of the piano tuner, the chimney sweep and the knife-grinder. A horse-drawn mower was used to cut what had then been wide lawns, the horse’s hoo...ves wrapped in sacking so they would not mark the green velvet grass. In one Victorian account book, neatly itemized, she found the total expenditure for a grand dinner for county neighbours at which Lord Lockington and his lady had been entertained just after their marriage.These were Mead’s glory days. After this the account books and farm records grew scrappy, as the head of the family turned to gambling to meet his debts. There were no more bouts of ambitious entertaining recorded.These estate records had been kept by successive generations of Meadowe men, farmers and lately gentry.MoreLess
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