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Northumberland Voices: A Shepherding Life

Bob Hepple was born at Sook HillFarm,Cawburn, nearHaltwhistlein 1891.Bob dedicatedhis life to shepherding on the hills in the Tynedale area. In the first of these oral history extracts Bob talks about the hirings, when farmers engaged farm workers. He also describes sheep dog training and even reads some poetry!

For more about Bob Hepple’s oral history, see our blog post:

https://northumberlandarchives.com/test/2021/11/15/bob-hepple-shepherding-in-tynedale/

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