FIFTY-nine families, mainly from heavy industry and coal mines in County Durham, moved to Harrowby in 1936, to become market gardeners.
They were the new members of the Land Settlement Association which gave men displaced from the heavy industries a chance to live and work in the countryside.
The smallholdings were created near Harrowby Hall with a central marketing structure.
The forge had been the estate offices.
Each man received agricultural training and each family was given five acres to cultivate plus livestock to rear.
The small holdings were run as a co-operative.
The Harrowby scheme ended in 1971.
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One of them, Mr U T Omeichenko claimed on Russian farms, employees made up to £3,500pa compared with £600-£1,000 earned by members of the Harrowby scheme.
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