Albert Edward Farley (1879 - 1961)

Bertie was born to a father who farmed and also purchased and sold butchers shops. When his boys grew old enough he put most of his sons into his shops so that they could manage them prior to resale. Bertie was put to manage a Butchers Shop In White Hart Street, High Wycombe, Bucks and this is where he met a beautiful young woman called Rosina.

Albert and Rosina worked for Bertie's Dad for a few years in their "Dining Rooms" on the outskirts of London but Bertie finally purchased his own butchers shop and the adjoining shop and also became a tythe farmer up the hill a few miles uphill from Wooburn Green. Bucks. Rosina and Bertie brought their children up at Wooburn Green.

As the years passed,, Bertie was still anxious to own his own farm and so sold the shops and purchased a small farm in Penn, Buckinghamshire. Coppice Farm.

His farm had less facilities than his shop premises and it was back to outside privy and no mains drainage and just a cold tap to a sink in the kitchen.

I remember it well. No electricity, but gas downstairs and one took a candle upstairs to see to undress.