The building on Rose Farm (Your Letters, February 18) was a house not a barn.

The barn had big double doors, so horses and wagons loaded with hay and corn could go inside. It also never had windows in it.

The photograph (right) was taken in 1910; note that the door is still the same size as today.

When I was a boy Mr Young, who lived in one of the black and white houses, told me that Andrew Betteridge had Rose Farm. He had the cab horses in Malvern in about 1900. The grooms brought the horses back at night. They then slept in the house.

Sixty years ago, I was shearing sheep in there when some of the sheep ran up the stairs.

When I fetched them down, I saw wallpaper hanging on the walls. They never put wallpaper in the barns!

In Hall Green and in Malvern I lost 12 fields I rented to graze my animals on, when they had houses built on them, I did not complain. My motto is live and let live and keep your nose out of other people's business.

What would people say that live in the houses built on the farm land if the law said it had to go back to farm land? I am 81 years old and know a lot more than some.

CHARLIE WILLIAMS, Sherrards Green, Malvern.