How did the agricultural practices of pre-war Britain sustain rural communities before the onset of the Great Depression? A. G. Street, a working farmer, documents his personal experiences navigating the economic collapse of the early 1930s. He utilizes his own life history to contrast the traditional methods of the past with the harsh realities of a modernizing, struggling agricultural sector.

Experts and historians recognize this work as a significant primary source for understanding the social and economic climate of British farming in the early 20th century. Readers frequently note the accessible, observational prose that captures a vanishing way of life.