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[Olde Crone]

At school in Dumfries in the 1960s, there was a week's holiday for tattie picking.

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[Shona]

I used to help my Argyll grannie at tattie-picking time - late 1960s, I think. Can't remember if I had time off school for it, though. Next followed the ritual of digging 'the pit' to store the spuds - alternate layers of potatoes, straw and soil. The tatties kept right through winter.

[Macbev]

Not so different in Australia either, when the 'big boys' at country schools would go missing at seeding, harvest and shearing times to help mum and dad on the farm....this also in the 1950s

[Nell]

Lots of school logs recorded absences for children to pick stones, harvest etc.