Drains And Population.
Yet the population has not fallen here in anything approach- ing the proportion registered in some neighbouring villages. The biggest of them had over 800 forty years ago, and......
Our English Harvest.
For the second time this year a tour of East Anglian harvest fields has been arranged by the Norfolk Farmers' Union, in order to prove and preach the excellence of English......
Rent And Capital.
Who is to supply the need ? Not the landlord. The value of Huntstead—of about 2,000 acres with five or six good farm- houses and nearly two score cottages—has yet further fallen......
The Hamlet.
The reduction of parsons is due to several causes. First, as I have said, the actual number available is insufficient. Secondly, the villages, with scarcely an exception, have......
Vanishing Rectors.
Where, then, are the changes ? First a great number of Rectories have clean vanished. One clergyman has the charge of several villages, coursing to and fro on a little car or a......
Childless Schools.
The dwindling of the villages is most clearly expressed in the schools. Let me give Huntstead, so nicknamed, as example. In the old days a famous old Puritan presided over sixty......
Country Life
ARCADIA REVISITED. Revisiting a very rural district in England, familiar to me many years ago in its most intimate details, I found changes almost startling in their social......
Yet, On The Whole, The Small Men Have Withstood The
depression better than the big. A really amazing example is emphasized in the current issue of the Ministry's Journal, a very excellent monthly. It is the tale of a man who took......
Previous page
