CHILDREN from Tibberton and Hindlip First Schools have been discovering what harvest time was like 80 years ago.

The youngsters interviewed Roly Morris for their school radio programme and discovered that Mr Morris used to cut corn by hand with a crook when he was a boy.

He also told them that as the corn was cut, he and his friends caught dozens of rabbits in the harvest fields which his mother made into rabbit pie.

The children asked Mr Morris for his best memory of harvest time, and he recalled building his first stack of corn aged 17.

He said: "It was not easy.

"You often got a slip, and half the rick would split open.

"Finishing my first one was a great achievement – I can remember that clearly."

The interview, which will be played to the rest of the children at both schools, is part of a radio programme about autumn and harvest.

Year 4 children at Hindlip and Tibberton First Schools get a chance to take part in the Radio Club and make radio programmes each half term on different themes.

Alex Gromski, Tibberton headteacher, said: "It was a real privilege for the children to meet and interview Mr Morris – a truly special morning for our youngsters.

"The experience of listening to and recording his harvest memories will stay with them for a long time. They couldn’t believe that everything on the farm was done by hand in those days."