Foel Grocery Van, Cwm Twrch Shearing and Tipperary Creamery

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Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive
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Foel Grocery Van, Cwm Twrch Shearing and Tipperary Creamery


The Foel grocer, his village shop situated midway between Welshpool and Dolgellau, delivers bread and other necessities to outlying farms by van. The women farmers walk across the fields with their baskets/bags to this mobile shop. Meanwhile, it is shearing day at a farm in Cwm Twrch, the hand shearers on benches, the sheep hobbled. Over in Ireland, farmers queue with their churns and carts at a creamery in Co. Kerry, and calves are brought in to Tipperary town for sale.


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