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Fruit Picking and Cider Making in Shropshire
Charles and Iris Worrall are shown pressing apples at Buckridge Bank Farm in the 1940s. (Image courtesy of Shropshire Archives) (For further information see "The Working Countryside 1862-1945" by Robin Hill and Paul Stamper, Swan Hill Press 1993)
Shropshire has never been a county noted for its fruit growing or cider production. In the Teme valley, between Cleobury Mortimer and Ludlow, fruit, including cherries and damsons but mainly cider apples, was grown. This was really part of the Worcestershire and Herefordshire fruit growing region.
Most farms would however have had an orchard for home consumption. Cider was a popular drink to quench the thirst of farm workers especially at harvest time.
Listen to memories of making cider and picking fruit at home in the early 20th Century
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