farmhouse

Yet it isn’t the easiest product to shift – particularly farmhouse cheese, most of which tends to be heavy and bulky and must be kept at specific temperatures.

Lancashire-based cheesemonger Andy Swinscoe says that at the beginning of the 20th Century, in the area surrounding his shop there were 2,000 farmhouse cheesemakers.

“It would be impossible for these small family farms to survive by selling liquid milk,” says Swinscoe – but they can add value by turning their milk into a farmhouse cheese.

The family of Hamish Grant, a firefighter killed when their appliance overturned en route to a farmhouse fire in Aberdeenshire in April 1965 and PC Edward Barnett, shot and killed in Glasgow in January 1970, are also among the recipients.

If the promise of America is a pretty white farmhouse, Hooper’s camera directed viewers to the dry rot in the walls and the bodies in the cellar.