A traveling reed comber.(The machine shed)

Countryside & Small Stock Journal | March 1, 2004| | Copyright

At 70 years of age, David Hurford is the last of his breed. A farmer all his life, he is now the only traveling reed comber in East Devon, England.

He moved to his farmhouse when he was three months old. Nestling in the Devon countryside, it overlooks some of the 360 acres he farms with his son. Apart from nine years on a farm in Sidmouth when he first married, he has always lived here. An eight bedroom house when David was young, it has now been split into a pair of houses with father David and son Julian living side by side.

"Leaving school in 1949, I ...

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