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The farm
was built before 1715 and was one of the farms held by the
knight's service from the manor of Tregaire, by the Pomeroy
family, Lords of Tregony Castle. The farm, with all the outbuildings
as they are today, was present in this form since 1841,
when it was taken over by Lord Falmouth's Tregothnan Estate.
1934 - Arthur's father with campers from the above picture,
collecting produce form the dairy (today's office with the same door remaining).
When Victor,
Luisa and Patricia moved in at the beginning of 1998, it was
as if time had stood still. Treloan Farmhouse had no electricity,
running water, drains or telephone. No chemicals or fertilisers
have ever been used on the land. We are busy putting the clock back to the 1930s.
1936 – Arthur's early 30's Fordson tractor harvesting on the Treloan coast, overlooking the Pendeower Coast (this old machinery is still on the farm today).
Treloan
has been a campsite since before 1920, known fondly by hundreds
of families as "Arthur's Field". Arthur Davis and
his father, having farmed it since the century before last.
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The
farm was managed using horsepower as well as a collection
of horse drawn farm machinery and 1940's tractors. A
horse engine is still to be found in situ in the lower
farmyard and stabling for five cart horses is still
preserved and in use. This engine was powered by the
horses to grind corn and cut chaff for animal feed as
well as milling wheat to supply the farmhouse with flour
for baking bread in the existing 6ft bread oven.
This
was found behind a small Victorian fire grate, an enormous
inglenook fireplace with 2 clome ovens dated 1717 and
1742 and a 4'6" bread oven.
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