SIR – Your review of Changing Scenes, on August 18, celebrating the 150th anniversary of agriculture in and around Tenbury Wells prompted me to buy a copy.

It was well worth the effort of tracking one down.

What a truly delightful, well-written and presented book which took me back to my early childhood in the Teme Valley where my late husband’s family farmed for some years.

I have been long since retired to the Cotswolds but nothing can erase the memory of the hardworking and friendly people of the area so well and affectionally expressed in Jen Green’s writing.

If some of the negative reports I have heard and read about the anniversary show held on August 2 are correct, it is fair to say that this book has lifted the Agricultural Society above the ordinary, and I congratulate Jen Green and the society for producing such a comprehensive account of farming life.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

It should be compulsive reading for students of farming history everywhere.

THELMA LEADBETTER, Broadway, Worcestershire.