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The Journey
Location: Cumbria
So what did our particular journey involve? Of course, it started with an idea which, once funding from LHI had been obtained, took off with an enthusiastic group of people prepared to go where no one of them had been before. We listened to visiting speakers who gave guidance on how to tackle this journey and who spread infectious enthusiasm.
We had training on how to research our past, how to look afresh at what we had around us, how to find and interpret old documents, how our landscape has changed and why, and how buildings can tell a story.
We organised ourselves: everyone had a task, whether it was collating resources, collecting and organising photographs, providing illustrations, carrying out interviews or embarking on our own research following our personal interest and writing up the results. Editors were chosen to bring it all together.
The work, over months, put inby all the members of the group has been helped enormously by so many others. Friends, near and far, have freely shared their memories, some even being prepared to face the novelty of recorded interviews. People have racked their brains, consulted family members, written and telephoned, sometimes again and again, with information. And they have been so patient, pointing the way.
We know that memoires can be a little fallible at times, but we have tried to ensure that the information we have given is accurate, and do apologise if there are any details the reader feels are not quite right in the book, Now and Then, In Haile and Wilton.
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