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A black and white film from 1946 following the delivery of a postcard to Ivybridge

In 1947 Pound Farm was let to Percy Lawrence Ford on a yearly Michaelmas tenancy from Highlands Estate. The children in the film appear to be twins called Dorothy and Donald Ford. Their mother, Edith Yeoman, was the daughter of William Quick Yeoman who lived at Pound Farm in 1930 and was recorded there on the 1939 Register as a retired farmer. The twins were born in1932.

Percy Lawrence Ford came from a farming background, his father William Henry Ford was a farmer at Grazealders Farm, Venton on the 1921 census with Percy recorded as ‘assisting father with general farm work’. His father later farmed at Ugborough.

There are many references to the surname Ford in Ivybridge. One family included several generations of farmers and butchers. Part of the family took the courageous step of emigrating to Argentina in 1838.