Pavements To Ploughed Fields

In September 1939 Len Brown was evacuated from the East End of London to Fen Farm, Blo Norton, on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. From near starvation he came, as he saw it, to a land of plenty. "The cornfield at the back of the farmhouse stretched away into the distance and the apples were hanging in bunches from the trees. There were about fifty chickens pecking at the corn that had been thrown into the orchard and some were strutting about cackling their heads off. I just sat there fascinated by what I could see and wondered whether it was all a dream." It was not a dream, and years of very hard work followed, work that he remembered and recorded to produce a wonderful picture of life on a Norfolk farm over fifty years.