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    Marston Green Gates

    Only just read this. The pigs were on the allotment and owned by Bill Brazier who lived across from the allotments at No.9 Elmdon Lane. The Brazier family then moved to Moat House Farm in Elmdon Road. I took over the farm and farmed it until it was demolished in March 1977. I am now 82 and...
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    T. Elvins & Sons Ltd

    I don't have such happy memories of Elvins. I owned a security company that carried out security on some of their building sites. They ceased trading owing me a fair bit of money.
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    Marston Green Gates

    With respect to the moat at Moat house farm. I lived at the farm and farmed the land until the farm was demolished. The Moat never surrounded the farm, it was a small Moat and surrounded the derelict cottages. The cottages were on the edge of Low Brook and were full of our ducks. The ducks used...
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