The start of the juice.

This is the start of the apple juice making - a box of apples is poured into the press.

I've just finished 2 days on the production line so that I will have a better understanding of the product when I'm on my rounds of visiting all the customers.

It was 2 days of full on work - trying to keep up with a bottling machine and packing 24 bottles into boxes that had to be made, labelling, checking the labels were at a consistent height so that they will look good on the shelves, stacking the boxes on a pallet and keeping on eye on the temperature of the pasteurising. Everything goes ok until unforeseen things happen such as the sellotape running out in the box sealing device - a bottle coming out without its top, labels missing.

While having a chance to take my mind off counting and stacking I had a thought about the first job I can remember my dad having in the 50's. Following the war my dad worked at a fruit preserve factory and through the 50's he would have packed boxes with fruit but in his times it was in tins. The factory was called Park Farm Preserves near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. In the early 60's the factory closed and became a pig farm. My dad tried his hand at pig keeping for a while but couldn't stand the smell so he left. A consequence of his leaving was the family had to move out of the home because it was a tied house.

My parents had the chance to buy it for a few hundred pounds but instead decided to move to a brand new council house in Binyon Road, Winchcombe- number 41.

The tied house was recently on sale for £300,000 pounds - the front exterior looks very similar to what I remember but the inside looks very nice but very different.