Former farmer's vintage machinery collection includes 1940s Fowler VF bulldozer

Robin Hill was born in London during World War II and had his first taste of rural life when his family moved to The Fens in Cambridgeshire to avoid the bombing.
He embraced the farming life at a young age.
At 5, he was breeding and fattening rabbits to

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