This made me laugh. Hats off to the pipe smokers!
"Wot, No Cigarettes?"
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The vicar who grew his own tobacco launched an entire cooperative movement dedicated to growing the stuff. The Tilthy co-op was in Dunmow in Essex was operating well into the 1980s.
Ah, found a bio of the Reverend. It sounds as if he had to contend with an obnoxious Customs & Excise and poor media too. I wonder if his pamphlets are still knocking around? Valuable knowledge and experience there, I'm sure.
Oh, just swooped on the book "Home Tobacco Craft" to which he was a contributor. Look forward to its arrival
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Oh, just swooped on the book "Home Tobacco Craft" to which he was a contributor. Look forward to its arrival
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Nice find chum, I do love those old Pathe information films, stories often told with tongue firmly in cheek.
Jay.
Jay.
Thanks for posting. Sent me down the rabbit hole, albeit only briefly, to find out more about the "Baccy Parson" Hugh Cuthbert. He had an interesting life and became the leading advocate for homegrown tobacco in Britain. He was the Vicar of Tilty and supported his parish to some extent with his tobacco crop.
The video was made three years after WW2 in Europe ended, and the US was still fighting in the Pacific. Maybe a tobacco shortage was a real thing thenin the UK. Kind of curious