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A Brief Illustrated Guide to Weymouth
£3.50The seaside town of Weymouth grew famous following its royal connection at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. King George III used to holiday […]
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Bill Mitchell Books Four Book Offer
£34.00Special Offer – Purchase all four books – Nobbut Middlin, How They Lived in the Yorkshire Dales, Nowts Same and Summatt & Nowt for £35 Post […]
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Bradford In The Past
£12.95Bradford In The Past If you missed the DVD when it came out, now is the time to buy ‘Bradford in the Past’ for that special Christmas […]
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Dale Days
£12.95‘Dale Days’ – Narrated by W. R. Mitchell, is a rare archive film of the Yorkshire Dales taken in colour during 1942. The 16mm film was […]
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Hamble Village and its River – Download
£10.95Rare and fascinating films of the village of Hamble and its river from the 1920s through to the 1970s. We look at all aspects of village […]
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Harrogate In The Past
£12.95Probably more than in any other period in history, our major towns and cities have undergone considerable change. Fortunately in the case of Harrogate, much of […]
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How They Lived in the Yorkshire Dales
£9.99How They Lived in the Yorkshire Dales is a comprehensive account by famous Dales writer W. R. Mitchell MBE who was editor of the Dalesman magazine for many years. Bill’s wanderings around the Dales over many decades gave him a great wealth of knowledge as he went to visit ordinary folk in the villages and farms of the area. He was able to write about their lives and tales and this book encompasses many of his findings of life in the Yorkshire Dales.
154 pages with illustrations £9.99
W.R. Mitchell
W.R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell joined the Dalesman magazine in 1949, starting a journalistic career inspired by owner Harry Scott’s adage ‘put people before things.’ He took over as editor from Scott in 1968, a position he held for eighteen years. As well as editing Dalesman and its sister publication Cumbria, Bill had a prodigious output extending across over two hundred books, innumerable articles and countless lectures. His thirst for knowledge and a keen listening ear made him an expert on many topics. He had the skill of putting often-reticent Dales folk at their ease, his interviews reflecting a bygone age and remaining for posterity in the W.R. Mitchell Archive.
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.
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Lake District In The Past
£12.95Narrated by W.R. Mitchell M.B.E. A rare look at this wonderful area through colour film from the 1940s and 50s, plus some early 1930s footage of village […]
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Limestone Pavement
£3.95‘Limestone Pavement’ by Tim Thom First in a new series in conjunction with the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A lavishly illustrated book containing the history of […]
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Nobbut Middlin’
£9.99‘Nobbut Middlin’ – Laugh with the Dalesfolk’
The third book written by W. R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell in a trilogy of humorous accounts from Dalesfolk. The intension is to amuse and also to evoke life as it was in the Yorkshire Dales. The author, who edited The Dalesman magazine for many years, has witnessed the transformation of an insular, self-reliant way of life into one in which Dales farming as we have known it is struggling to survive.
128 pages with colour photographs and illustrations – £9.99
W.R. Mitchell
W.R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell joined the Dalesman magazine in 1949, starting a journalistic career inspired by owner Harry Scott’s adage ‘put people before things.’ He took over as editor from Scott in 1968, a position he held for eighteen years. As well as editing Dalesman and its sister publication Cumbria, Bill had a prodigious output extending across over two hundred books, innumerable articles and countless lectures. His thirst for knowledge and a keen listening ear made him an expert on many topics. He had the skill of putting often-reticent Dales folk at their ease, his interviews reflecting a bygone age and remaining for posterity in the W.R. Mitchell Archive.
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.
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Nowts Same
£9.99‘Nowt’s Same –
A Light-hearted review of Dales Life in the 20th Century’
Dales life is recalled through folks tales and much humour. In 1900, women showed little more than their ankles to the gaze of the opposite sex.
A prudish Dales housewife covered the bare legs of the living room table on Sundays. Ninety-nine years later, members of the Rylstone Women’s institute felt able to raise money for charity by posing unclad, for a calendar. In Grandma’s day, chests were rubbed with goose grease and working-class folk were often in ‘right pickle’.
136 pages with illustrations by Richard Bancroft – £9.99
W. R. Mitchell
W.R. ‘Bill’ Mitchell joined the Dalesman magazine in 1949, starting a journalistic career inspired by owner Harry Scott’s adage ‘put people before things.’ He took over as editor from Scott in 1968, a position he held for eighteen years. As well as editing Dalesman and its sister publication Cumbria, Bill had a prodigious output extending across over two hundred books, innumerable articles and countless lectures. His thirst for knowledge and a keen listening ear made him an expert on many topics. He had the skill of putting often-reticent Dales folk at their ease, his interviews reflecting a bygone age and remaining for posterity in the W.R. Mitchell Archive.
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.
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Pictorial Guide to the Settle-Carlisle Railway
£3.00‘A Pictorial Guide to the Settle-Carlisle Railway’ A full colour guide to the line with maps and potted history. Over 72 photographs, mostly in full colour, […]
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Purbeck In The Past
£12.95Probably more than in any other period in history, our major towns and countryside have undergone considerable change. Fortunately, in the case of Purbeck, much of […]
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Saving of Settle Signal Box
£4.00The remarkable story of how Settle’s old 1891 signal box was moved from its location of over 100 years to nearer the station. The movement required special measures being put in place to make certain the structure was secure and steel bracing put around it. A 90-ton road crane was hired in to lift the box onto six trolleys positioned across the main Settle-Carlisle Line which was closed and in a possession for track work elsewhere along the route.
This is the photographic story of the movement in 1997 and the restoration of the signal box as seen by photographs by Roger Hardingham.
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Skipton & Craven In The Past
£12.95More 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 […]
