was renowned for its trout fishing, and people used to come from far afield, to fish there, but unfortunately, when Industrial Progress started around here some years ago, in the form of Coke Ovens, at Morton Colliery, it polluted the water with the Chemicals and killed all the fish, which caused great indignation amongst the fishing enthusiasts. The age of the farm dates back to the 17th Century, but I cannot tell you the exact date, but the present house, dates back 1898, but some of the out houses in the farm yard, belong to the original farm house. It has been inhabited by the Booth Family, for many years, buts its present owner is Mr H. Holmes. We now cone to another farm, West Pasture Farm. The present owner Mr E. Moore, and it has been in the Moore family for a good many years. The present owner’s grandfather was a very old gentleman, who died at the ripe old age of 94, but he was not the original owner of the farm. It was originally built for the farm workers, of Westhouse Farm and a man named Mr Wood, lived there, as he worked for the Downings. The old house was built in 1768, but that has quite recently been demolished. Mr E. Moore’s, grandfather was a very active and enterprising man, in his heyday he built the first cottages in the village, eight in all, in the year 1886. Then he built the grocer’s shop and house in 1894, when the hotel in 1900, he sold the Hotel to the Shipstone Brewery Company in 1913. Referring to the name of the farm West Pasture Farm, there are very few people in the village who know the name of the farm. There was also an old village pump at the top of what is known as Moore’s lane and also an old well in the old house yard, which had a windlass, for drawing water and that well was used to supply most of the village with their water, in fact it used to be carted every day up to Westhouse Farm, as the water supply was very poor in those days. West House Farm; this is the last of the farms and is the oldest farm of the three. It dates back over three hundred years, and has been in the Downing family since it was built