Farmer Moving South, Short Movie, 1952

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1949 Bedford O-Type

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dsl ◊ 2017-11-01 04:50	16 minute film taken from from British Transport Films Volume 3: Running a Railway (2-DVD set). Can be seen here "Farmer Moving South is one of the finest early British Transport Films. It follows a farmer's relocation from Skutterskelf Hall Farm near Stokesley in North Yorkshire to Perry Hill Farm, Hartfield, Sussex on 31 December 1950 - a date recorded as the coldest night of that year. They depart from Stokesley Station on the North Yorkshire & Cleveland railway's Picton to Battersby line, opened in 1857 and closed to passenger traffic in 1954. Freight services ended in 1965. The station building, signal box, goods shed and Stationmaster's house all survive in private ownership. The film includes a fleeting glimpse of East Grinstead No.2 Tunnel which is now buried beneath the town's bypass.". I don't think I'd call it one of BTF's finest films, but it's mildly interesting. The most intriguing thing is the circumstances of the move - DVD booklet says he just decides to sell up and move as if it's a happy jolly story, but there are suggestions in commentary that he's a tenant farmer moving between two government-owned farms because he's been told to by The Men From The Ministry who organise everything as part of a resettlement scheme. But never properly explained why they're making him move.

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16 minute film taken from
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British Transport Films Volume 3: Running a Railway (2-DVD set). Can be seen here

"Farmer Moving South is one of the finest early British Transport Films. It follows a farmer's relocation from Skutterskelf Hall Farm near Stokesley in North Yorkshire to Perry Hill Farm, Hartfield, Sussex on 31 December 1950 - a date recorded as the coldest night of that year. They depart from Stokesley Station on the North Yorkshire & Cleveland railway's Picton to Battersby line, opened in 1857 and closed to passenger traffic in 1954. Freight services ended in 1965. The station building, signal box, goods shed and Stationmaster's house all survive in private ownership. The film includes a fleeting glimpse of East Grinstead No.2 Tunnel which is now buried beneath the town's bypass.".

I don't think I'd call it one of BTF's finest films, but it's mildly interesting. The most intriguing thing is the circumstances of the move - DVD booklet says he just decides to sell up and move as if it's a happy jolly story, but there are suggestions in commentary that he's a tenant farmer moving between two government-owned farms because he's been told to by The Men From The Ministry who organise everything as part of a resettlement scheme. But never properly explained why they're making him move.

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