Hugo Page Croft

Recorded 23/24 April 2024

A GOOD STORY WELL TOLD.

Audio recordings of personal, family & business histories. To share experience & anecdotes between one generation and the next.

A fabulous life story from Hugo Page Croft in April 2024.

We begin the conversation with his maternal Grandparents.

His Father’s part in World War 2 - magical anecdotes of American dentistry on the beaches in France 10 days after the 1944 D Day landings.

Hugo talks about the Croft family in Herefordshire.

He dips into the family’s link with King George the Third’s daughter, Princess Charlotte, in 1817.

Hugo talks about how his surname Page Croft was a union of marriage.

Hugo Page Croft’s family were Maltsters.

Hugo describes growing up and community life in post World War 2 England. He lived in the small town of Ware.

Then we embark on his journey from being at home growing up as the middle child of three. To boarding at Shrewsbury School. After school we hear how his business, Moray Maltings began. Captivating stories take us through over 20 years of Scottish Maltings in the 1970s and 1980s. How the business worked with Farmers and educational establishments to develop seed. We finish as the business is sold to Scottish and Newcastle Breweries in 1986.

Formby Podcast would like to thank Arabella Page Croft and Kieran Parker for requesting this recording -A GOOD STORY WELL TOLD.

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