What
were once functional cottages for farm-workers have become 聭chocolate
box聮 dream homes for people who work in nearby towns or commute
to London, coming home to the villages to eat and sleep.
Shops
and pubs have gradually closed and there is now very little evidence
of crops being grown in an area everybody associates with the humble
brussel sprout.
Sandy
man and 麻豆社 Three Counties Radio presenter John Pilgrim meets up
with retired gamekeeper and flower grower, 86-year-old Len Edwards,
who was born in Blunham and has remained in that corner of Bedfordshire
all his life. Peter Willshire provides the transport in the shape
of Harley the horse and a four-wheel trap.
On
a beautiful spring morning they gently make their way through the
Bedfordshire countryside as Len remembers the way things were and
reflects that occasions such as May Day could still bring villagers
together in the way they always used to. Len even threatens to dance
round the May Pole in Ickwell himself!
