{"id":17508,"date":"2021-09-15T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/?page_id=17508"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:14:09","slug":"fruit-picking-by-kathleen-fathers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/?page_id=17508","title":{"rendered":"Fruit picking in Martham by Kathleen Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Fruit picking in Martham by Kathleen Fathers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raspberry-pickers-Braceys-Farm-c1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33642\" style=\"width:454px;height:310px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raspberry-pickers-Braceys-Farm-c1920.jpg 600w, http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raspberry-pickers-Braceys-Farm-c1920-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 85vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Raspberry pickers at Bracey&#8217;s Farm c1920.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Kathleen Annie Fathers  (1890-1973) was the daughter of Benjamin &amp; Ann Fathers. He was the Head Teacher of Martham <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/?page_id=1396\">Board School<\/a><\/em> from 1902 to 1921. Kathleen wrote an account of fruit picking at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/?page_id=10084\">Bracey&#8217;s<\/a><\/em> of Martham as a schoolgirl probably between 1902 and 1905 which can be seen by clicking on the link below which will open a separate pdf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit-Picking-by-Kathleen-Fathers-compressed.pdf\">Click here for Fruit Picking pdf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of Norfolk Record Office, record PD 710\/83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a class=\"maxbutton-28 maxbutton maxbutton-home-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/\"><span class='mb-text'>Home Page<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruit picking in Martham by Kathleen Fathers Kathleen Annie Fathers (1890-1973) was the daughter of Benjamin &amp; Ann Fathers. He was the Head Teacher of Martham Board School from 1902 to 1921. Kathleen wrote an account of fruit picking at Bracey&#8217;s of Martham as a schoolgirl probably between 1902 and 1905 which can be seen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/?page_id=17508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fruit picking in Martham by Kathleen Fathers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33644,"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17508\/revisions\/33644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marthamnorfolk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}