Ellis Davies, Betlands Farm, Llanddewi, Gower describes his family’s Carmarthenshire farming roots, their move to Gower, and his own path from farm work to becoming an agricultural college lecturer while staying connected to agriculture.
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ED: My family, on my father's side then we were Carmarthenshire people, Welsh speaking and they moved to Gower to get a bigger farm. They're big family and the farm where they were wouldn't keep them all, so they had to branch out and my grandfather came to Gower and that's where we remained ever, ever since.
I branched out of farming. I was on the farm as a youngster, my brother as well on the same thing, history repeating itself. We could see… he was 17 years older than me and by the time I left school, he'd married and had three sons, so we could see in the future that they could well be problems. So my mother said to me, Ellis, you’re not bad in school you go on and get a trade or get something. You can always come back to the farm but get something and then, so that's what I did. I went to night school and then I went to Cardiff University, had a teaching degree and I became an agricultural college lecturer and I did that ‘til I retired. Yeah. So although it is an agricultural college. I was teaching agriculture and I was still very much involved in what I'd been brought up in, so that was rather nice.