| News and views 3 COMMENT A Pennine Childhood 5 DIARY & AGENDA 6 LETTERS 8 THE WAY I SAW IT Agnes Fish 9 FIFTH COLUMN 10 THEY’RE OFF! Pennine Heritage Network is launched! 12 TREES v SHEEP (pdf) Steve Sackur on the saving of a Pennine Woodland 14 THE LAMP’S LAST STAND? Saving Leeds’ Gaslamps with Peter Hopkinson 15 SUFFERING IN LONGDENDALE P.M. Rimmer describes how a Pennine valley has fared after an influx from Manchester PENNINE IDENTITY 18 PENNINE WONDERS Pendle should be famous for its holiness not its witches says Richard Catlow 20 FAMILY FLASHBACKS Ian Dewhurst has fun with his family tree 22 GOING FOR A FROND Nigel Hall describes the rise and fall of a most unusual industry 23 PENNINE PORTRAITS Pennine people through the lens of Roger Birch, of Todmorden 26 THE FIGHT FOR WINTER HILL The battle for Winter Hill by Paul Salveson PENNINE LIVING 28 DOING THINGS IN STYLE Ann Knowles on some Do’s and Don’ts for the home owner GETTING THINGS DONE 30 GUARDIANS OF THE CUT Michael Child tours the Calder & Hebble Canal 32 BACK CLOTH FOR THE ARTS Turning an old building into a new arts centre REVIEWS 34 EATING OUT At Todmorden and Altham 36 PENNINE PUB GUIDE The Strawberry Duck at Entwistle near Bolton 38 BOOKS PENNINE GUIDE 40 PREVIEWS John McCombs at Saddleworth and Julie Lawson at Warley 42 WHAT’S ON 46 WHERE TO GO Hollingworth Lake through the ages by Harvey Kershaw |
Cover photo: ‘Clifford Mamwell’ by Roger Birch Clifford lives adjacent to the small foundry (the building in the background) which he runs in Walsden. He is a friendly but argumentative type — strong political opinions. One can invari- ably find him sounding off about something or other that is bugging him at the time 
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