2010/20/7

Farming,

Edward Fletcher and Partners (Manufacturer)

This is the instructions for ‘Farming’, a board game in which 3–6 players run a farm for a year and try to finish the farming season with the highest profit. The game was manufactured by Edward Fletcher & Partners in 1982. The game contains a shared game board and individual playing boards, bank notes, and various playing cards.

MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – 'Description: Board game with the title ‘Farming’ which involves each player running their own farm for a year. Box with farming picture on front, main game board, 5 farm homestead boards, stock cards, crop cards, play cards, money etc. See separate list of full contents. Made in Great Britain by Edward Fletcher & Partners, 25 West Park Road, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DB. c. 1982// Dimensions: // Associated information: Purchased as part of the Collecting 20thc Rural Culture project. // References:', Instructions text – ‘The Aim of FARMING // The aim of FARMING is that each farmers should finish the farming season with as large a profit as possible. The farmer with the largest profit at the end of the game is the winner. FARMING also gives the players a realistic insight into the activities that occur on a farm during the course of the year.’

Kew

1982 - 1982