The following was provided by Peter Trewhitt:
Don’t forget this evening (Wednesday 11th June) there is a tour of Parwich. It has been laid on by the Local History Society for members of Bonsall Local History Group, but any local people are welcome to join in. Meet at 7pm in the Sycamore car park. The tour will be led by Brian Foden, Rob Francis and myself. Refreshments will be laid on in the pub at the end of the walk.
On last week’s excellent tour of Brassington I got a copy of the new edition of Ron Slack’s “Lands and Lead Miners: a History of Brassington” (Tempus Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978 0 7524 4497 0 paperback £14-99, it was cheaper for those who came on the tour). It took me a few days to get going on the book, some of the sections are detailed and have to be read carefully, but today it has drawn me in. It is a most impressive piece of work and really evokes what life has been like over the last two thousand years. The descriptions of how people lived in the late medieval and early modern periods are fascinating. I particularly feel I gained a real insight into what it would have been like inside the village houses.
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