Hi, I'm 70 and live in Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. When I met my wife in 1968, she lived with her grandparents. Great people, and they told many tales of being hired, and living in bothies, what the meat was like etc. I loved your video as it brought back great memories.
Back in the 1980's my boss would loan me out to other plumbing shops, some of them had easy work & bought me a good lunch, some had me digging a ditch all day, without a drink of water!
@Quat Sino Yes I've heard of the roode fair. Fascinating stuff. It shows how near to slaves the workers were. Yet you never hear of the treatment they received.
@Quat Sino Fascinating mate. I was just studying a bit about Rood fairs. Apparently, rood refers to a cross, the cross that Christ died on. there are rood crosses in churches and names eg Holyrood. In addition, I remember old Dick, my wife's granddad telling me, that he worked with shellshocked horses, as they were auctioned off ofter WW1. They had a crow's foot brand on their rear quarters. He claimed that on one occasion, one bolted and smashed the cart, and was captured three miles away. Poor buggers.
Super video, guys!!! So exciting to get notified of your vid. Well worth the wait, too. We live such soft lives nowadays, don't we? Farming is such a hard life. Thanx so much for your I formative and interesting videos.
What i love most about this video is listening to the accents of the people. The farming work was hard, as I've read about in many stories on immigrants to America working on their own farms. It doesn't sound too good to be hired out as a servant or a farm worker just so you could eat. My family has farmers that moved from Scotland and Germany to North Carolina then Nebraska then eastern Colorado and finally the rich Skagit Valley in Washington state, always reaching for a better future for their children. That my generation was needed to hire out, but did have some opportunity to work harvests, picking berries, putting in hay.
We had them in England too. I think the books of Thomas Hardy , if i remember correctly, describe them or some other 1800s books I read. Mind you it is not that different from any of us on an app these days trying to get odd jobs of work online or using an app to get a 3 months live in job as a nanny in England
I have always wondered and could never find out how my Granny ended up working as a Cook 120 miles from her Mountain home & people in the 1890s , now I think I have the answer , she went on to marry a Herds Man on the Big Farm where she worked and between the 2 of them they reared a large family of broken children who themselves went on to leave and repeat the process, Poverty, Alcoholism and even Incest . The Depravity of this Hiring was vile , I guess a lot of these girls were used as Bed Warmers by the Lord's of the Manor as well. And now thanks to this video I realize why my Father was always roaring at us children when we were helping him in the Hay Field or Bog , he always screamed , ' What I am keeping ye for for ? ' he didn't see us as children, he saw us as he had been seen by his father who had been seen by the Lord of the Manor.
A for goodness sake don’t be talking I went to work on farms in New Zealand in 1975 My first job was with a man who’s dad came from If I remember Cooks town way They were an excellent family to work for My next experience was rather different I went to work for this bloke in the mid north island , as I had a motorcycle to travel I had a level of independence,anyway I arrived on the farm the previous afternoon,and as we were having a cuppa I enquired as to what time we were expected to start in the morning as on the previous farm we used to start at 6 am His answer was as follows, well now Michael if you want a cup of coffee be in the house at 4.15 am ,but be in the milking shed before 4.30 am “I made sure to get the coffee and that is all it was coffee. We worked until 8.30 and breakfast consisted of a small bowl of porridge aaTea and 1 small slice of bread Back to work after 1/2 hr break and lunch small slices of bread and some small salad 🥗 after another 1/2 hr break it was back to work until 6.30:pm so I was doing app 14 hr day with very little food Funny I enjoyed it only spent 2 weeks there for me it was an experience As the comedian once said that when your not at home you’re some where else
we didn't coverr that aspect in Béaloideas na hÉireann II wizh Dr Szle DeCléir this past Senester. We did come that in Year 1, Semesxt'er 2 in Rotha Mór an tSaoil (literally:: The Big Wheel of Life not Rothar [bicycle] Mór an tSaoil, as Professor Trions Ní Shiocháin wozld always say), or the Hard Road to Klondyke in English. about Micki Mór MacGabhann from possible Ranafast im Co. Donegal.
And the farmers would have it all back again at the drop of a hat given the chance. Often heard stories of farmers who would turn their backs when they payed the pittence to the labourers so they didn't have to look at their money parting.
The kids sitting on their ass getting the dole really should be made to watch this and realise really just how easy their lazy lives are today, where they get good money for doing nothing 😠🤬
Hi, I'm 70 and live in Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. When I met my wife in 1968, she lived with her grandparents. Great people, and they told many tales of being hired, and living in bothies, what the meat was like etc. I loved your video as it brought back great memories.
Hi Ian. Thanks for the comment. Yeah our pasts truly do have so much in common.. All the best from Co. Derry
Back in the 1980's my boss would loan me out to other plumbing shops, some of them had easy work & bought me a good lunch, some had me digging a ditch all day, without a drink of water!
@Quat Sino Yes I've heard of the roode fair. Fascinating stuff. It shows how near to slaves the workers were. Yet you never hear of the treatment they received.
@Quat Sino Fascinating mate. I was just studying a bit about Rood fairs. Apparently, rood refers to a cross, the cross that Christ died on. there are rood crosses in churches and names eg Holyrood.
In addition, I remember old Dick, my wife's granddad telling me, that he worked with shellshocked horses, as they were auctioned off ofter WW1. They had a crow's foot brand on their rear quarters. He claimed that on one occasion, one bolted and smashed the cart, and was captured three miles away. Poor buggers.
What a great production.... Thank you so much . Very much harder times they were indeed. We don't know we're born !
This is a powerful program. Thank you for doing the hard work of producing this.
Ted Marshall
Wilmette, IL. USA.
I'm loving your history archives, especially the man telling the tale of old.
I wasn't aware of hiring fairs. This was a a very hard life for children. I really enjoyed watching this.
Thanks Mark.. Great to hear you enjoyed the video
Respect. Thankyou
Thanks for the comment Faisal
Beautiful Video,a hard existence.
A struggle to feed both hand and farmer.
A Much Appreciative
Raptor Rob(England)
Thank you that was amazing
Thanks for the comment Christopher
Super video, guys!!! So exciting to get notified of your vid. Well worth the wait, too. We live such soft lives nowadays, don't we? Farming is such a hard life. Thanx so much for your I formative and interesting videos.
Thanks Lisa.. Different times indeed, we don't know how easy we get it at times.. Cheers for the comment, Chris
Brilliant video
Thanks William
Excellent video, brilliantly made and so enjoyable to watch.
As my grandad would say 'we don't know we're born'. Very interesting video .
He wasn't far off Emma! Thanks for the comment
Thanks for sharing. I always look forward to these videos.
Thanks for watching!
Hard times in a harsher Ireland,we don't know we are born today 👍🇨🇮🇨🇮
Great video . Thanks
Thank you Ronald. Glad you enjoyed it
I was in Moville once or twice and I loved Letterkenny and Donegal
Ever heard of the Amish ...? The Irish loved this life. Give Ireland back to the Irish
What i love most about this video is listening to the accents of the people.
The farming work was hard, as I've read about in many stories on immigrants to America working on their own farms. It doesn't sound too good to be hired out as a servant or a farm worker just so you could eat. My family has farmers that moved from Scotland and Germany to North Carolina then Nebraska then eastern Colorado and finally the rich Skagit Valley in Washington state, always reaching for a better future for their children. That my generation was needed to hire out, but did have some opportunity to work harvests, picking berries, putting in hay.
Fascinating.
I am Scottish now retired in Brazil and in my younger days in North of Scotland they called this the feein merkit and a great day was had to all
Following the death of his mother from TB aged 40, my father and four of his brothers were hired out in the 40s in Inishowen Co. Donegal. Tough times.
When I was a young boy at the age of 5 my great grandfather told me about his experiences doing this only difference was he was contry cork
Are we not getting any more videos on this channel? :(
We had them in England too. I think the books of Thomas Hardy , if i remember correctly, describe them or some other 1800s books I read. Mind you it is not that different from any of us on an app these days trying to get odd jobs of work online or using an app to get a 3 months live in job as a nanny in England
Bollocks to England
I have always wondered and could never find out how my Granny ended up working as a Cook 120 miles from her Mountain home & people in the 1890s , now I think I have the answer , she went on to marry a Herds Man on the Big Farm where she worked and between the 2 of them they reared a large family of broken children who themselves went on to leave and repeat the process, Poverty, Alcoholism and even Incest . The Depravity of this Hiring was vile , I guess a lot of these girls were used as Bed Warmers by the Lord's of the Manor as well. And now thanks to this video I realize why my Father was always roaring at us children when we were helping him in the Hay Field or Bog , he always screamed , ' What I am keeping ye for for ? ' he didn't see us as children, he saw us as he had been seen by his father who had been seen by the Lord of the Manor.
A for goodness sake don’t be talking I went to work on farms in New Zealand in 1975 My first job was with a man who’s dad came from If I remember Cooks town way They were an excellent family to work for My next experience was rather different I went to work for this bloke in the mid north island , as I had a motorcycle to travel I had a level of independence,anyway I arrived on the farm the previous afternoon,and as we were having a cuppa I enquired as to what time we were expected to start in the morning as on the previous farm we used to start at 6 am
His answer was as follows, well now Michael if you want a cup of coffee be in the house at 4.15 am ,but be in the milking shed before 4.30 am “I made sure to get the coffee and that is all it was coffee. We worked until 8.30 and breakfast consisted of a small bowl of porridge aaTea and 1 small slice of bread Back to work after 1/2 hr break and lunch small slices of bread and some small salad 🥗 after another 1/2 hr break it was back to work until 6.30:pm so I was doing app 14 hr day with very little food Funny I enjoyed it only spent 2 weeks there for me it was an experience As the comedian once said that when your not at home you’re some where else
Difference is you’ve worked for 2 weeks, these lads worked ther whole lives…slight difference
we didn't coverr that aspect in Béaloideas na hÉireann II wizh Dr Szle DeCléir this past Senester. We did come that in Year 1, Semesxt'er 2 in Rotha Mór an tSaoil (literally:: The Big Wheel of Life not Rothar [bicycle] Mór an tSaoil, as Professor Trions Ní Shiocháin wozld always say),
or the Hard Road to Klondyke in English. about Micki Mór MacGabhann from possible Ranafast im Co. Donegal.
Is there any Scottish ferm bairns, who were flitted with there parents from farm to farm in cattle floats in the 1960/70s 🏴✌️
And the farmers would have it all back again at the drop of a hat given the chance. Often heard stories of farmers who would turn their backs when they payed the pittence to the labourers so they didn't have to look at their money parting.
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Where's the new video I need some vintage farming entertainment please
My grandparents had horses 😊❤ bless them in heaven .
God love them they were completely exploited. 😢
A gridle pan
The kids sitting on their ass getting the dole really should be made to watch this and realise really just how easy their lazy lives are today, where they get good money for doing nothing 😠🤬
Poor inmocrnt kids
Ppp ok
Disgraceful behaviour.