Arthur Ingram

Arthur W. W. Ingram was born and raised in the countryside of the South-west in a time when traditional working methods on the land and ways of village life were rapidly being displaced by a modern technology and the influence of wider and more instant communication. In these times he found a greater rapport with a steady and unhurried tenor of life than with that which was replacing it. He worked for a number of years as an Inspector with the RSPCA. It was whilst stationed at Devizes in Wiltshire that the chance acquisition of a few ‘rural bygones’ rekindled interest in old country ways. The few rural bygones grew, in the course of three years, to a collection of over six hundred items, now on display to the public at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park in Somerset.