Andover Countryside
Item
- Name
- Andover Countryside
- Location
- Andover
- Type
- Intangible
- Description
- The fields surrounding Andover were once used to train German-Jewish refugees in England in agricultural skills.
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This training was organised by the Society of Friends, and enabled the refugees to gain the hands-on experience in agriculture needed to become skilled workers.
A video of young men training in 1938 is available to watch, courtesy of the newsreel archive British Pathé.
- Item sets
- Sites of Historic Jewish Hampshire