June 2015 | Buxton Calling #2
Odes and Loads
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If you have not listened before then do press the button below and sit back to listen to memories of pork pies, quarries and phonographs.
We begin the first part of this podcast with people’s memories of Wardle’s pork pies, a famous Buxton delicacy, including two local butchers, Mac Burnham and Billy Hesp (pictured below). We even have a poem Ode to Pies which we collected from the landlord of the Quiet Woman pub in Earl Sterndale.
The second part relates to the Quarryman’s exhibition currently on at The Green Man Gallery in Buxton until 10th July. This is an exhibition of a small section of pictures from the Tunstead archive and our podcast features interviews with John Drury and Frank Emerson. Frank has been digitising the archive for the last 5 years, a real labour of love but one for which we must be very grateful. It is hoped that more pictures will be released in the future to accompany our podcasts.
See us checking out the screens at the Green Man Gallery for size…
The last part of our podcast sees us travelling further afield to the Yew Tree at Cauldon Low. This is a rather special interview with Alan, the then landlord, who ran the pub for 51 years. His stepson, Dan, has now taken over and they are both very much alive and kicking. In fact, they will be hosting a free music festival from 17th-19th July, so get yourselves along and see for yourselves.
And true to this area, you can’t go very far without encountering a quarry. Cauldon Low and Froghall provided limestone for the agricultural and pottery industries. At one time, thousands of men were employed in the quarrying and transportation of this mineral, either by canal or rail. The last “sand train” from BIS (British Industrial Sand) ran down the Churnet Valley in 1988. The image above is by kind permission of Churnet Valley Railway.
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