Edward Victor Farrow (6 Dec 1924 - 2 Jun 2015)

Happy Birthday Grandad xxxx

Happy Belated Birthday Grandad xxxxx :-) Miss you

Edward Victor Farrow

Known to everyone as Vic.

Born in December 1924 in a small village in Lincolnshire called Folkingham.

His dad was a tailor and had a shop in the village.

He grew up with his brother John who was a couple of years older, they were very close. Dad often talked of them helping at the local Dairy hand churning butter and making ice-cream at the weekend and collecting the radio-set accumulators (batteries) from their neighbours and taking them to the Blacksmith on a Saturday morning to get them charged for the week!

He also told stories of the old motor bike they rode in the fields buying the petrol for it from the pocket money they were given for helping people (sixpence (2 ½ p) for half a gallon of petrol or if they could afford it eleven pence hap’penny (5p) for a gallon.

Even at such a young age Dad was helping people and that became a cornerstone for the rest of his life; always doing what ever he could for others and always offering to help out if he could.

He left home at 14 and joined a ‘Thrashing Team’, a gang of workers that owned a Steam Engine and a Thrashing Drum that toured the countryside travelling from farm to farm thrashing sheaths to remove the corn from the straw; the job these days completed by a Combine. Naturally being the youngest he was give all the worst jobs and recounted stories of things that he did that these days would have had his Boss locked up by the Health & Safety Police!

Thankfully he survived but the job started him off on a life long career working on farms. It also meant that during the war he was not allowed to join the Forces and whilst training a group of Land Army Girls, who were set to work on his farm, he met Madge Blockley. They fell in love and after the War, in 1947, they got married, over the next 9 years they produced Patricia, Susan and Shaun.

Vic worked on a number of farms, the last as the Manager at Home Farm at Long Eaton belonging to the Co-op. When the Co-op decided to move out of farming Home Farm was taken over by Barry and David Bramley providing that Dad stayed on as manager. This he did and so began a happy working and personal relationship that Dad and the brothers enjoyed until he retired.

Sadly on Dad’s 64th birthday Mum died of heart failure, which is the reason why any donations made will go to the British Heart Foundation.

Dad had always said to Mum that when he retired that they would have the time to travel the country and make up for all the holidays that he was never able to take. Although she wasn’t with him he kept his word and brought the first of many Motorhomes in which he toured Britain and even had trips to Europe and Ireland. He joined a group called the Companions and met and made friends all over the country.


Dad had an affinity with animals and all sorts of mechanical equipment! He would always ensure that any livestock was well looked after and would nurse calves or cows though the night when they were sick; often just soothing them and talking to them so that they were reassured. He also showed the same care for equipment. He could spend hours attempting to repair something and if at the end of that time if it still didn’t work, where as most people would swear at it, hit it with a hammer and throw it on the scrapheap Dad would calmly step back and devise another way to fix it, which would invariably be successful!


Above all though, Dad was always helping others. He would always volunteer to assist if someone had a problem, not just by suggesting a solution but by also helping to put things right…..and he did all of this with the most loving smile you could ever wish to see!

A lifetime of love. Always thinking of you, from your loving daughter Trish xxxx

A lifetime of love. Always thinking of you, from your loving daughter Trish xxxx

A lifetime of love. Always thinking of you, from your loving daughter Trish xxxx

Good bloke who will be sadly missed but always remembered with a smile by Family and Friends- Rest in Peace Vic xxx

Dedicated to Madge Farrow and Vic Farrow now reunited together, miss you Gran and Grandad, all my love Vic xxxx

Grandad Vic, you are sincerely missed, thoughts and memories of your words of wisdom, laughter and kindness are sealed memories in my heart that will never be forgotten, I take comfort that your resilient spirit continues to live on in myself and others of your creation.

My heavy heart hides in silence, but whenever I rest there I take comfort in knowing that my love for you will always live beyond tomorrow. Rest in peace and mind how you go.

All my love,

Vic xxxx