Apple Pressing Day in The Village of Willey in Shropshire

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00:00My name is Anne Skinner and I'm the secretary of Willie and District Village Hall

00:05and you're at Willie Village and this is an apple pressing day.

00:09Well I think it just gets the community together, it's lovely to see so many people,

00:13they come with their apples but also they come for the bar, they come for a nice bite to eat,

00:19a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, just gives people a chance to get together.

00:23A lot of people have, we've picked a lot as well,

00:25so we have friends who've said come and pick our apples so we've done that.

00:29I'm also a parish councillor and we've got an allotment up in Broseley,

00:33at the top of Broseley in Barrow Parish and we've picked them from there as well.

00:38Okay well first of all you've got the scratter over here which is a

00:42big gathering around the scratter, often male, I don't know why,

00:46and then once they've scrattered it they will then put it in the press and press the juice out

00:51and then the juice goes into bottles.

00:53If they want to take it as cider or as fresh juice they can just take it away,

00:57if not I can pasteurise it because I'm in charge of pasteurisation in the hall.

01:02Yeah and it's just a fantastic system really.