A Musical Play About Agricultural Union Leader Joseph Arch
4 min readJan 20, 2019
The Wellesbourne Tree by Robert Leach
The Wellesbourne Tree was written by Robert Leach in 1975, a musical documentary play about Barford born Joseph Arch who, in 1872, founded the National Agricultural Labourers Union. On Sundays he was a Methodist lay-preacher, eventually becoming a Liberal MP, and (probably most proudly for him) Champion Hedge cutter of…
