Tattie holidays
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Tattie holidays
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The tattie holidays are a school holiday in Scotland typically falling around October. The holiday started in the 1930s, when children would be taken out of school to help with the local potato harvest, with other children just not turning up for class. The tradition continued into the 1980s, when the advent of new farm machinery such as potato harvesters made hand picking potatoes obsolete. The word "tattie" comes from the Scots word for potato. Tractors would plough the fields to uncover the p
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Scottish holiday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattie_holidays
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2023-08-14T20:58:47Z
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