Focus on Beaconsfield. The price of the Beaconsfield cherry
Details of the cherry industry around Beaconsfield. Types called ‘caroons’. Made lovely cherry pies.Mid June to erly August cherry pickers worked from dawn to dusk to collect cherries. In 1906 Seeleys farm employed up to 60 pickers. Cherries were loaded into carts to the new station Ladders used were wider at the bottom and narrowed at the top made by craftsmen in Holmer Green. Baskets were made in Oxford by the blind. Cherries were sent to Leicester, derby Nottingham and Sheffield. By 1960’s many areas of Beaconsfield had been developed. Seeleys estate no longer provided cherries as the locals objected by petition to pickers using guns to scare the birds away at 6am! To the west of Hogback Wood there is a field owned by Mr Pitcher which was planted by his grandfather. Seeleys Orchard was picked and cherries sent to London.
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