Lived: Heasley Mill, Barbrook
Recording made: 2002
Length of recording: 1 hr 24 mins
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PAM WYATT
Born:
Heasley Mill,
Devon, 1932
Lived:
Heasley Mill,
Barbrook
Recording made: 2002
Length of recording: 1 hr 24 mins
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Pam Wyatt was a dabster at pony racing, or so says Dick Rawle, beating all the men when she was only 11. Her parents farmed at Heasley Mill then, moving later to Barbrook. She worked at home after she left school, inside and out, and once milked 28 cows on her own. It took her a minute or two, she says.
She has stayed at home all her life, helping her father run the farm, though he was always in charge. She looked after the hound puppies for Dulverton West Foxhounds and whipped in for them for a season, but it was difficult fitting it in around farming. She drives a lorry, moving stock, and says it is easier than a landrover and trailer.
Her father carried on farming until he died, at 84. She and her mother are in partnership now.