Your stories
Below are some excerpts from the interviews carried out as part of the ‘Moorlands: People, Places, Stories’ project. The interviews reveal a wealth of information about the moorlands of Upper Nidderdale as well as the local community that lived and worked surrounded by them. Thank you to all who have given their time to share their stories.
Leisure
Work
War
Shooting
Way of Life
- Boggle Dike - Alec Dewar
- Calor Gas, a hot air oven and making things - Mabel Peacock & Margaret Peacock
- Clip rugs and concrete floors - Mabel Peacock & Margaret Peacock
- Digging peat - John Cameron
- Happy with your lot - Dinah Lee
- Taking over at Smithfield Farm - Willie
- The things people in town take for granted - Christine Harker
- Tup sales, Tom Whitfield and the band
Schooling
Community
- An aging community - Stephen Ramsden
- Being made welcome - Trish and Alan Robinson & Judith and Paul Ransom
- Changes in the village - Dave Mawer
- Friends in Ramsgill & affection for Nidderdale - Alec Dewar
- Lucy Harker - Trish and Alan Robinson & Paul and Judith Ransom
- The Bell Festival and school competitions - John Cameron
- The Miners Arms and Greenhow village in the 1960s - Paul Garforth