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I READ with interest the recent article entitled Big Cheese Who Built Industry (June 24), looking at how Derbyshire farmers led a revolution in cheese-making. It said that on May 4, 1870, the first cheese factory in the country opened at Longford.
Maybe - but I remember, as a girl of 10, 76 years ago, I used to go to my grandmother's house in Clay Street, Wymeswold, in Leicestershire, and there was a cheese-making firm there in a field. They had wooden vats for making Stilton cheeses and wooden sheds to mature them in. If a cheese collapsed, it was shared among the workers - my aunt was one of them.See the full content of this document
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Cheese Vats Were in Field
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