New Homes CRM move to The Hawthorns
October 17, 2009
The Hawthorns Rural Business Centre is very pleased to welcome New Homes CRM to unit 10. They were previously based in Gloucester and have relocated to work at a more convenient location, benefit from generous car parking allocation and enjoy the pleasant working environment.
New Homes CRM predominately offers a range of services to the new homes industry specialising in customer relationship management. They handle sales enquires efficiently and effectively for a range of house building companies.
The Trumpet Ploughing Match
October 5, 2009
Today we went to The Trumpet & District 66th Ploughing match held at The Green Farm, Felton, Herefordshire. With the ground too dry at The Hawthorns to do any work with the Direct drill it was a good excuse to see how the ploughs were coping. In addition, we were keen to see Colin Bowen in action. Colin is a good friend from Craven Arms, Shropshire who also runs Mickey Miller’s Playbarn. Chris had promised for ages to go and see him compete in a ploughing match but had never found the moment until today, so a quick telephone call and a spur of the moment decision meant we found ourselves in Felton trying to spot Colin amongst all the other tractors ploughing on the site.
The Ploughing field
There were a range of classes featuring many different styles of ploughing including Tractors and Ploughs manufactured before 1959, Tractor and Hydraulic Plough manufactured after 1964 and before 1972, and Vintage one Furrow Plough with Agricultural/Horticultural plough to name but a few.
A class in action
Colin had entered the Reversible Plough Section, last week he had been in Zabreh, Czech Republic at the 26th European Reversible Ploughing Championships chasing a good place (he came third overall, winning one of the classes) and his aim is to represent England in the 2010 World Ploughing Contest to be held in New Zealand.
Colin in action
In addition to the tractors and machinery there was a Horse Ploughing Section which demonstrated a number of heavy horses tacked up in their finery.
The magnificent horse and plough
Checking all is well
