John Foss

We are sharing a monthly look at the farm diary of John Foss, written from his dairy farm in Kingston Russell in 1851. February 1851 February starts with “a very rough wet morning new moon & Eclips in the sun”. Whilst there was an eclipse on the 1st Feb 1851, it was in the southern… Read more The Diary of John Foss: February 1851

We regularly take in new accessions, ranging from parish registers to glass plate negatives. Last June, we received an innocuous looking notebook. Whilst not particularly exciting from the exterior, it is in fact a detailed diary, written in 1851 by farmer John Foss. It gives a daily account of life on a dairy farm in… Read more The Diary of John Foss – January 1851