Documentary Research - Secondary & Qualitative

Research Techniques for my Documentary

Secondary & Qualitative Research  

Albion Farm
Albion Farm has been an on growing farm since the early 1900's. Since then it was owned by a family known as the Hirst family. It had been Ernest Hirst who bought the farm in the early 1900's, from a relative.

Albion Farm produces products such as; Beef, Lamb, Pork and eggs.

The Farm has bread a Welsh Black Cattle herd since the 1970's, which is now one of the largest herds of naturally polled welsh blacks in the country. 

Over time the Farm had been supplying free ranged eggs to shops all over the local areas.

Ernest’s son Sidney, his wife Lilian and their young son David then took over the farm.

Lillian sold eggs at the farm door for many years, until the shop opened in September 2007 and she still lives in the farmhouse.

Sidney and David built up the herd of pedigree Welsh Black cattle, which was established in 1970.

On the farm are also Lonk and Gritstone breeds of sheep which are pedigree polled Dorset and Dorset Horn sheep which Annette and David began in 1985.

Address:
Albion Farm Shop
Oldham Road
Delph
Saddleworth
OL3 5RQ

Albion Farm produces products such as; Beef, Lamb, Pork and eggs. The Farm also buys and sells products from different Farming Markets, within a range of products from various meats to fruit and vegetables. 

The Farm has bread a Welsh Black Cattle herd since the 1970's, which is now one of the largest herds of naturally polled welsh blacks in the country. 

All the female cattle have been bred from generations of the original cattle and only replacement bulls are bought in when new bloodlines are needed. At present there are three bulls used on the herd, Idloes Viscount, Cathedine Domino and a son of Idloes Viscount, Albion Karel.

All the animals that are on the farm are all polled, including the Cattle and Sheep. The term polled; is the being of an animal that is naturally horned, but has genetically been dis-horned, through selective breeding.

Natural polling occurs in cattle, yaks, water buffalo and goats, and in these it affects both sexes equally; however in sheep, both sexes may be horned, both.

On the farm are Lonk and Gritstone breeds of sheep which are pedigree polled Dorset and Dorset Horn sheep.

The Poll Dorset is a short wool, sheep that was developed in Australia between 1937 and 1954 with the aim of breeding a true Dorset type sheep without horns.

Dorset horn sheep were established in the 1891. Dorset sheep are the only sheep breed that can breed all year round, and have unique horns.

Lonk sheep has good conformation for a hill breed, and is also a horned sheep, while the Derbyshire Gritstone sheep have no horns.

The Derbyshire Gritstone has a thick coat and distinctive black and white markings.

This was the website I had used to collect and implement my research for my project.

http://www.albionfarmshop.co.uk

I had gathered information from the 'Farm shop' page
http://www.albionfarmshop.co.uk/farm-shop/

I then went on to recover more information which resolved around the 'Farms History' and 'Starting up'.

Journey Distance

From Stalybridge (Where I live) to Saddleworth (Albion Farm)

Albion Farm Shop

Oldham Road

Delph

Saddleworth, Lancashire OL3 5RQ, United Kingdom

Albion Farm - 01457 874366

I had contacted the Farm shop and requested if I could produce a Student Documentary on the Farm. They replied with the statement of, 'The person that can give this permission is not here right now. But we will get back to you'.

I had called the Farm Shop multiple times and waited for them to get back to me. They did not call me back, which gave me the idea that they are not interested.

 I then thought to withdraw from the idea of the project; and search for another idea.

Gathering the out come from the distance of travel and the lack of permission I then felt that I should dismiss this idea for my Documentary project.