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Skipton & Craven In The Past
£12.95
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More than at any time in our past, our towns and cities are undergoing great change, Fortunately in the case of Skipton and the surrounding Craven area, the charm still remains although life is more hectic even in this district. Fortunately film-makers over the years have captured scenes from long ago, mostly on 16mm film, much of it in colour.
Approx 55 Min
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In 1996 Bill was awarded the MBE for his services to journalism in Yorkshire and Cumbria and received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the university of Bradford. In 2007 he was awarded a Golden Eagle Award from the Outdoor Writers’ and Photographers’ Guild which cited him as one of the founding fathers of outdoor writing. Two years later he was voted ‘Greatest Living Icon’ for the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a poll to mark the 60th anniversary of the National Parks.
In 2010 he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dalesman Rural Award ceremony, receiving the award from another advocate of the countryside, John Craven. Bill’s work for Dalesman over four decades is arguably the defining feature of an illustrious career.
Bill died in 2015, aged 87.
