Sale particulars for farms and estates in the Stratford-upon-Avon, South Warwickshire and North Gloucestershire area, with folder of annotated 6" Ordnance Survey maps used by the Warwickshire War Agricultural Executive Committee, collected by Michael Woods in his capacity as District Technical Officer for the War Committee and later as District Advisor for the National Agricultural Advisory Service
DR1215
1940s - 1980s
2 sections
open
collection
A.M.A. Woods (born 1922), a graduate of Reading University, came to the Stratford-upon-Avon area in 1943 as District Technical Officer to the War Agricultural Executive Committee, and in 1946 became Agricultural Crop Husbandry Advisor for the West Midlands Province of the National Agricultural Advisory Service. From 1949 until 1956 he managed the Stratford Office of the NAAS, remaining District Advisor, after its closure, until his retirement in 1982. He was farming correspondent for the 'Stratford-upon-Avon Herald' from the 1970s
