Skip to content
Accessibility
  • Text Size:
  • Normal
  • Large
  • Larger
  • Screen Colours:
  • Normal
  • Black & Yellow
Occold
  • Home
    Coronavirus Pandemic - Home but not Alone 0800 876 6926 Events Calendar Village News Contact Us Clubs and Activities
  • Services
    Guidelines for Advertisers For Sale/Wanted ads Business Directory Home Based Services Village Hall Eye-to-Eye Alert Service ORACLE magazine Community Minibus
  • Organisations
    Beaconsfield Arms Belly Dance for the Over 50's Carpet Bowls Club Charities Trustees Community Coffee Mornings Dance Academy - Children Flower Guild Football Club Friends of Occold School (FoOS) Jubilee Baptist Church Luncheon Club Occold Conservation and Wildlife Group ORAC Orange Fitness Parish Council Primary School Redlingfield and Occold WI Reflexology Rocking Foxes St Michael and All Angels Table Tennis Club Yoga Youth Club
  • People
    Faces from the past Surname Interests Family History Records Rectors Roll of Honour Letters Home from a Soldier during WW1 Publicans Family Histories Local Heroes We Will Remember Them Pupils at Occold School, 1953 Rev Stanley Stringer Pelargoniums The True Britons Club
  • Places
    Village Pictures - Present Village Pictures - Past Village Appraisal 1976 Drawings of Occold Flora & Fauna Occold Circular Walk A Sunday in Occold - circa 1913 The Old Rectory Directories of Occold, 1854 - 1925 Walks around Occold area
  • Events
    Occold v Redlingfield Show 1889 Sale of Threshing Tackles 1947 Sale of Pedigree Holsteins 2007
  • Photogallery
    Events in 2018 Events in 2017 Events in 2016 Events in 2015 Events in 2014 Events in 2013 Events in 2012 Events in 2011
  • Recorder
    Occold Village Report 2019 Occold Village Report 2018 Occold Village Report 2017 Occold Village Report 2016 Occold Village Report 2015 Occold Village Report 2014
  • Occold Walk
  • Elections - May 2021

Sale of Pedigree Holsteins 2007

Events » Sale of Pedigree Holsteins 2007

Sale of Pedigree Holsteins 2007

Village Hall Bookings & Info
VH BOOKINGS 2022 actual (pdf)
Occold Village Hall Hire Rates April 2022 (pdf)
Hall User Guide March 2019 (pdf)
Fire Action Plan (pdf)
Sponsors (pdf)
Latest Hall Hire Terms July 2018 (pdf)
LICENSING TERMSCONDS 1 (pdf)

in Nov 2007 by Brian Hull, Church Farm, Occold

The Sale of Threshing Tackles took place at Church Farm in 1947 as the Last family changed their farming radically to meet the demands of the time. Sixty years later, on the 21st November it was the turn of the Hull family to make a similarly radical change as they put their entire herd of 216 pedigree Holsteins up for sale.

Wright Manley's sale catalogue sums up the trials & tribulations they have had to suffer in making this change:

For the third time this autumn a date has been set to conduct the dispersal of the Ferrers Herd of Pedigree Holsteins on behalf of Mr & Mrs Brian Hull who have decided to cease milking at Church Farm, Occold, Nr. Eye, Suffolk.

The first two dates were planned for a sale at Beeston but were cancelled due to Foot & Mouth and now Bluetongue has put a spanner in the works again; as Church Farm is currently in the Bluetongue Protection Zone at the time of going to press (8th November) and the fact that animals can only move within this zone, the sale cannot take place at Beeston. Therefore the Hull family have taken the courageous decision to hold this extremely important dispersal sale at home knowing full well that only milk producers resident in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent and parts of East Sussex and Cambridgeshire can purchase at their sale.

The last word should go to the Hull family:

On an emotional day selling our treasured cows, the sun and buyers came out to make it a successful day. We had so many tributes on how good the animals were and how well the cows looked, which made us very proud. Can we take this opportunity to thank all the friends and acquaintances for their support and good wishes.

One door closes and another will open & the Hull family are up for the challenge.

Brian Lesley Daniel & Amanda.

cows4
cow1
auctioneer
ring
auctioneer2
ready
bidders
brian
cow2
cow3
brian2
firsthammer

Copyright © 2022, Occold

Contact Us

By using our website you are consenting to our use of cookies. If you would like to know how we use our cookies or how you can block cookies in your browser please click on our cookie policy.