Fred Archer

The local newspaper of 1900 covered the weekly happenings of men, farming, and weather, but what of the Secret Things that were not reported in the papers....

Fred Archer, the master of the rural tale, has gathered together a fine collection of Worcestershire country folk....

When Fred Archer was a boy, men’s voices were deep and mellow as they rang out following the plough, or in church on Sundays....

To Fred Archer, born in the village of Ashton-under-Hill in 1915 and growing up in the 1920s, nothing seemed to change except the seasons....

Fred Archer grew up on his father’s farm in the Vale of Evesham in the 1920s, a time when the horse was supreme....

In Golden Sheaves, Black Horses, Archer has recorded the beauty of the West of England and the villagers living in the area during the last decades of the 19th Century....

This is the story of a Worcestershire farm from the 1930s to the 1970s....