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Tuckers Nursery WW2

Tuckers Nursery was on the land off Stanford Road and where Nursery View and Berners Way houses have been built
In 1939, after College in Swindon, my Mother, Francis Ashby, worked as a Horticulturalist at Tuckers Nursery, Faringdon before going on to Kew Gardens.
She was also, unusually for the time, a keen photographer ( the camera was basically just a box with a pinhole in it)
Mum passed away in November aged 103 and to preserve her memories I have just scanned her old, never printed, 120 format negatives.
Somebody in Faringdon may have ancestors who worked there although some, I suspect may be the 'Land Girl Army' and could be from afar.
They are extremely atmospheric of the period. 
Mum stayed with her both farming relatives - Uncle [Sharps] and extended family [Gorton] in nearby South Marston and, of course, cycled daily.
​Thanks to Bill Ashby
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