Farming in Stapleford Tawney 1902

Mr Harry Sworder, of Tawney Hall, Stapleford Tawney, where the soil is mixed with heavy clay subsoil, whose large farm I visited, complained much of labour troubles. He said that he could not get sufficient; that he had ten men and could do with ten more for a time, if he were able to find them. As it was, there was only one hand at work on a ten acre field of mangold. Four or five of his people had been on the place for an average of thirty years.