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Probably 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 the town’s architecture and colorful gardens were recorded on film, together with important civic events by skillful film-makers.
This complication of archive footage from the 1920’s to the 1970’d, includes historic occasions such as the visit by the Lord Mayor of London in 1939 at the opening of the annex to the Royal Bath’s and the visit in 1929 of the Duke of York to the Great Yorkshire Show. We see rare footage of Harrogate’s Coronation celebration’s of 1937 and many splendid color films from the 1950’s of life in the town. Everyday scenes within Harrogate’s streets gives us rare glimpses of motor vehicles of the time, shops, the old railway station and the variety of fashions worn by its people.
We see archives of some of the villages around around Harrogate and visit Ripon and Pateley bridge. The town’s railway station and long-gone good yard and parcels services are seen to good effect!
Approx 50 min
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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.
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