Tomlinson's

The Tomlinson family has had its roots in farming for many generations. Garth's mother's family, the Scriveners, farmed originally in Lincolnshire and then moved to Top House Farm in Shenton. Garth's grandfather, Edward Scrivener then married into the Vernon family who had farmed at Hall Farm in Dadlington for generations.

Edward and Anne continued to farm at Hall Farm and had 3 children, Gerald, Vernon and Margaret. Margaret is Garth's mother and she married a local boy George Tomlinson, whose relations, the Busbys, also farmed in Dadlington.

Garth's mother produced her first turkeys in 1943. she took her first turkey to be mated at Sutton Cheney, on the bus. The father of a friend of ours took his pig to be mated in the sidecar of his motorbike! Those were the days!

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