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Parliament, but its name is given to the Eastern Division of Birkshire.
The Town is well paved, excellently lighted and drained, and has also a capital water supply, the
Waterworks being the property of the Corporation. Some of the oldest streets are rather narrow, but the main
thoroughfares are for the most part fairly wide and are all well kept, while many of the buildings are of
historical and architectural interest. The business portion is that nearest the Castle, while the principal
residential parts are those bordering the Great Park and stretching out towards Clewer and Winkfield.
(From Official Guide to Windsor Castle, the Town and Neighbourhood of Windsor)
Farming as a science-based industry
Although agriculture will be hard-pressed to feed the many people in the world in 1984, even at the present
low levels, in Britain and other European countries the increased need will not be bearly so great as for the
world as a whole; the anticipated rise in population is less and the initial standard of living already high. Unlike
many parts of the world, however, Britain has little or no waste land to bring into cultivation. Instead, the farms
must lose land needed for housing, factories, schools, offices and roads. Another loss from the farms will be
labour.
The British farmer will have to produce more or less land and with fewer men. To do so he will have to use
every tool placed at his disposal by the scientist and technologist – or condemn himself to a life of slavery on an
income providing a bare subsistence. There will always be some men prepared to follow this life from their
love of the traditional ways on the land, but they will be in continuous danger of extinction and their numbers
will undoubtedly have fallen by 1984. These farms will be family farms as the traditional methods will not
allow hired labour; at the wage levels agriculture must pay to keep abreast with a general rise in productivity.
For the rest of the land the management must, by 1984, have passed into the hands of men capable of
applying every branch of science and technology, including modern techniques of management. Their farms
must necessarily be a size which will justify their ability, skill and energy and bring them reward sufficient to
attract them from other industries anxious to buy their services. These farms will be also big enough to employ
men with special skills rather than the all-round farm craftsman.
On the arable land the cultivations will be increasingly mechanized, the management and operation of the
machines being the responsibility of one group of workers. Field will have to be reshaped and enlarged to make
cultivations easier, with the elimination of many hedgerows. Weeds will be almost entirely controlled by means
of herbicides. The use of fertilizers will be heavy but controlled. The crops will be protected against pests and
diseases from seed to harvest, largely by insecticides and fungicides.
(From The World in 1984 by Sir William Slater, F.R.S. Formerly Secretary, Agricultural Research Council,
London)
A life-long passion for the sea:
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1774-1851)
Turner did not begin oils until he was about twenty-one, his first exhibited oil-painting apparently being The
Fishermen at Sea, off the Needles of 1796. It is typical of Turner to have begun the medium by attacking the
difficult problem of moonlight.
Profound as Turner's love of the mountains was, it was scarcely so fundamental as his love of the sea. He
had been feeding his eyes on waves and storms, upon clouds and vapour. Here the value of his splendid visual
memory is evident. A wave cannot be drawn slowly and stolidly; it will not sit still to have its portrait painted.
For this reason most painters reduce their waves as a whole to a formula. Turner alone by constant observation
and by a consequent thorough knowledge of wave forms and of the rules that they obey, has given to his seas