"Heartwarming and fascinating, Cannon Hall Farm gets personal as the owners reveal the story behind the scenes of the farming TV show."
Cannon Hall Farm is well known as a tourist attraction, star of TV, and of course a working farm. While the place is now iconic, it’s the owning family who have made it so, and here we learn even more about them. Writer Robin Eveleigh has spent time with Roger, Cynthia and their three sons Richard, Robert, and David and created a warm, welcoming book about their lives.
You can hear their individual voices, picture their lives and see how the farm came into being. The story starts with Roger, his early years with his parents, and how farming has been forever in his blood. His resilience is astounding, it’s easy to see how, with his vision and determination, Cannon Hall Farm started its journey and with Home Farm Tearoom then opened as a tourist attraction.
Vibrant family photos bring the history of this family to life. Time after time they struggled to make ends meet, and in Richard’s section he explains: “Rudyard Kioling’s poem, If, does a fine job of summing up the family approach to both hardship and success: If you can meet with triumph and disaster; And treat those two imposters just the same”.
This is an emotional story, there were times when I cried, but there are huge amounts of love and hope at its heart. The reality of farming, the love of the land, animals, and Yorkshire, and most importantly the essence of family all shine through, so I just had to include this as a Liz Pick of the Month.
The title sums of the fortitude of this family beautifully, Cannon Hall Farm, Past, Present & Future is a compelling and very lovely book celebrating the Nicholson family.
As seen on Channel 5’s hit shows, Springtime on the Farm, This Week on the Farm and Cannon Hall: A Yorkshire Farm
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As seen on Channel 5’s hit shows, Springtime on the Farm, This Week on the Farm and Cannon Hall: A Yorkshire Farm Packed with fresh anecdotes and astonishing new detail, this emotional journey to the foothills of the Pennines brings the Cannon Hall Farm story bang up to date. In their own words, the very personal story of the ups and downs of the Nicholson family at Cannon Hall farm spanning almost 70 years.
Cannon Hall Farm - Past, Present & Future features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Biographies & Autobiographies, Gift Books, Animals and society, Agriculture and farming, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Memoirs
Hardback. £18.00, down from the £20.00 cover price. In Stock.
Cannon Hall Farm - Past, Present & Future was written by Nicholson Family and published by Mirror Books
Cannon Hall Farm - Past, Present & Future has 288 pages
£18.00, reduced from £20.00. In Stock.
