The Farmers Mart Oct/Nov 2015 - Issue 42 | Page 53

The Fleetwood Family

George comes from a line

started showing cows as a

of blacksmiths. His great

12 year old. The Fleetwoods’

grandfather, grandfather and

prowess in the show ring

father all pursued the trade

with their Dairy Shorthorns

with his father, Albert starting

under their home prefix

what was then a small dairy

of Hutchinwood is evident

farm in the early 1960s.

through the number of

“It all started growing as a

rosettes, place cards, sashes

dairy farm when I came back

and trophies they have won

from my studies at Askham

over the years and they had

Bryan College in 1963. At that

another successful Great

time we had about a dozen

Yorkshire Show this year.

milk cows and a few hens. It

“I was still showing up until

was when Pauline and I were

three years ago,” says Pauline.

married in 1967, the best day of

‘But I’ve now handed over to

my life, that we started gearing

Jill and our grandchildren. They

up even more.

are doing a great job and it’s

“That’s when we began
increasing cow numbers and we
bought a milk round. We then

lovely to see them enjoying
themselves.”
Jill has three sons –

started bottling milk for other

Benjamin (7), Oliver (3) and

roundspeople and at one time

Charlie (2). Christopher’s wife,

we were bottling 600 gallons

Lindsey had twin girls earlier

of milk a day and deliveries

this year, Abigail and Rebecca

were going to Kirkheaton and

who are both doing extremely

Lepton. We retired from it

well after a difficult start

about 25 years ago.”

having been born three months

Pauline is originally from
a dairy farm in Ackworth and

early. You may have seen their

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