Looking back at the past - YFC

Welcome to our newest and oldest feature. Each term we will be looking back at at articles from the archive. This term we are looking at the Young Farmers’ Club termly reports from over 70 years ago.

Possibly inspired by digging up the playing fields for potatoes during the war, and because many of the students were from farming families, a Young Farmers’ Club was set up at school in 1948.

DEC 1948 DEC 1949

In addition to lectures and films about farming techniques, livestock was kept and the field behind the school chapel was ploughed up to practice scientific farming. Experimental plots below Epworth grew barley, wheat and oats, and there were trials with different fertilisers. Over the following years assorted pigs, goats, rabbits and hens were reared by students.

MARCH 1951

DEC 1951

By July 1955, the renamed Agriculture Society had acquired 417 square yards of land behind the swimming pool to cultivate. A Gardening Club produced many fine crops of vegetables, and at one point interest was expressed in keeping bees at the school.

If there was a club you participated in during your school days, and you’d like to see a report from your decade in a future edition of the Truronian, let us know at

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