Talks on People and the Land that
Industry has invaded
I-Middlesbrough: The
' youngest child of England's enterprise '
Major J. Fairfax-Blakeborough ,
M.C.
This is the first of a series of five talks in which countrymen from various parts of England will describe how in one way and another their immediate vicinities have undergone a startling, and often puzzling, change. There have been War Office requisitions, movements from the depressed areas, localisation of industry, and agricultural depression.
What effect have these changes had on the private life of the countryman who for years has lived as his fathers did before him ? Rural settlement on the one hand has been answered by the migration of young country people to the towns on the other, and altogether the countryman is inclined to find himself in many cases neither one thing nor the other.