It’s a lovely book - full of interesting details, of ways life on the cusp of being lost and heritage that has now been lost - for example an interview with a 71 year old fishery worker at Goldcliff who’d made salmon putchers from withy for 37 years.
Utterly charming. Publications like that, and television archive footage from the same era, are our last links to a time which now feels so remote, yet was only a single human lifetime ago.
It’s very endearing, the writer earnestly assumes that you will be interested in the same pieces of local trivia that caught his eye. Some might be fairly inconsequential but the passage of time makes them significant - just looked up a church he visited to find only an estate agent’s listing now
We're so lucky that people decided to take the time to record and document what were then quite everyday events, likely unaware just how quickly these things would disappear and be otherwise lost once they passed out of people's memories.
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