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Office file iconLife on the Levels Interview: Ken Reece (Part 1) (Audio file opens in new window)

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Ken talks about his life as a dairy farmer on the Gwent Levels. The family farm was purchased by the Llanwern Steelworks when the site expanded. Ken remembers catle arriving on the Levels at the Severn Tunnel junction, evacuees on the farm during WWII, childhood games on the reens and pills, shoeing cattle and the Drainage Board.

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