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Success!24 December 1959
Bideford Show Trophies
Above: Mrs. G. M. Brimacombe, of Tythecott, Buckland Brewer, who won the trophy for the most points in the poultry-dairy produce classes at the Three Societies’ Show at Bideford last week.
Below: Mr. W. Scoble, of Waffapool, Buckland Brewer, winner of the “hoof” section trophy for the best pig exhibits. With him in the picture is his son-in-law, Mr. R. Barron, associated with him in the farm. The pigs are Landrace cross Large White. (Photos, Mill Street Studios).
Gazette article dated 24 December 1959
Bone Hill FarmOctober 1952
Three generations link with Bone Hill Farm
Believing that farming abroad offers greater scope and is less hampered by restrictions, Mr Eric Withecombe, of Bone Hill Farm, Northam, is selling the whole of his farming stock and later this month sets sail for Tasmania with his wife and child.
Two of his brothers, Bruce and Vernon, are already in Tasmania and are looking forward to welcoming their brother and his family to a new life.
Bone Hill Farm has been in the Withecombe family for three generations. Eric’s grandfather first farmed there and was followed by his son, the late Mr W E Withecombe, who carried on the farm until the end of the recent war. There will still be Withecombes at Bone Hill, however, for Colin, the youngest of the family, will now run the farm.
An Old Boy of West Buckland School, Eric, like his four brothers, Frank, Bruce, Vernon and Colin, is well known in the district. The five brothers are keen sportsmen and have all, at one time or another, been playing...