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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 7688950" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>Is it the deterioration in the land or that the people that did the work have gone, or both?</p><p></p><p>I can remember (Just) when there were sheep on Romney Marsh and there were some enormous flocks of up to 5,000 ewes looked after by a team of shepherds who all had there 600 plus ewes and did all the work.</p><p>There were four two day sales in Ashford market in the Autumn with over 20 thousand sheep in the two days on each of them. Then there were all the local Fairs, every village would have one with up to 3 or 4 thousand sheep.</p><p>Thousands of 2 year old Romney x Southdowns were kept and shorn for the wool and killed in the following May/June.</p><p></p><p>The hauliers hardly ever slept in the pre tachograph days and there were great stories of the open topped 3 deckers that before air suspension looked terrible things to drive and to load!!</p><p></p><p>Ah yes the good old days!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 7688950, member: 699"] Is it the deterioration in the land or that the people that did the work have gone, or both? I can remember (Just) when there were sheep on Romney Marsh and there were some enormous flocks of up to 5,000 ewes looked after by a team of shepherds who all had there 600 plus ewes and did all the work. There were four two day sales in Ashford market in the Autumn with over 20 thousand sheep in the two days on each of them. Then there were all the local Fairs, every village would have one with up to 3 or 4 thousand sheep. Thousands of 2 year old Romney x Southdowns were kept and shorn for the wool and killed in the following May/June. The hauliers hardly ever slept in the pre tachograph days and there were great stories of the open topped 3 deckers that before air suspension looked terrible things to drive and to load!! Ah yes the good old days!! [/QUOTE]
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