Janet's mother lived at Daisy Lake just out of town. Her mother remembered breeding rabbits in the war and the regular customer who came out to the farm each week taking a supply of rabbits strung along a pole back to Newcastle on the bus. Janet, herself, grew up on a small holding near Eccleshall. The family were then keeping pigs, and grew potatoes, peas, carrots and orchard fruit. She went to the Orme Girls school in Newcastle and left to work in the NatWest Bank in Newcastle where she worked in the livestock branch office on market days. She extended her contacts with the local farming community when she married and moved to the Market Drayton branch working sometimes in the Woore and Hodnet Sub Branches.

She works part-time as part of the Nat West customer services team. The majority of her customers are farmers, part of the farming community or people in associated businesses. The business of farming is changing. Farms are now diversifying by offering fishing rights or Bed & Breakfast. Barns are being sold off as properties. The biggest change to business however was the arrival of Muller. Getting payments from the Milk Marketing Board used to involve complicated record keeping. Now the milk goes directly to the local supplier. It's off the farm and gone, the money arrives quickly and the prices are guaranteed.