Just Born in Time

About

Casting back almost 80 years, Michael Rowson’s autobiography takes a nostalgic journey from the early 1940s through to the present day. Born at a time when rural life was almost incomprehensively different after the second world war, Michael offers a window into that era in Shropshire when most houses didn’t have electricity or running water and food was still rationed. Farming was largely mixed, and tractors were only just beginning to replace horses.

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Urbanisation, modernisation and mechanisation would change the landscape forever, with far reaching economic, social, political and geographical implications. However, just born in time, Michael enjoyed the good times in life. He was lucky enough to achieve his dreams and ambition of becoming huntsman, pursuing a career in hunt service which spanned 34 seasons. Michael enjoyed pre-ban hunting in a more accessible countryside, appreciating a unique relationship with the farming community in the county in which he was born and brought up. 

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Still in Shropshire, horse, horn and hound remain an integral part of his life. Riding regularly until his late 70s, Michael latterly returned to carriage driving and still enjoys a happy life in the county which he loves and a community in which he is fondly respected – a contented life lived with a fair share of luck.