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In the late 1950s, Dorothy Howells, a housekeeper living on an isolated farm at Craswall on the slopes of the Black Mountains picked up a cine camera and started filming. She captured a a unique record of the hill farming as it was in those days.

Interviews with the film-maker are interwoven with the original cine film into a charming and thought provoking film by award winning film-maker Naomi Vera-Sanso.

"Amongst the top 5% of amateur cine footage I have ever seen"

James Patterson - Director of the Media Archive for Central England

"I've never seen an audience so enraptured by a film"

Peter Florence - Director of the Hay Festival

17Mins

DVD

£12.99 + £2 p&p

Hay is a Marcher Town, being right on the border between England and Wales. This border is marked by the Dulais brook, which flows into the Wye to the east of the town. The Photographs and pictures included are intended to record the characters, buildings and events of a former way of life.

100 pages

Hard Cover

Illustrated

£20.00 + £2 p&p

This book is largely composed of the memories of some of the older residents of Hay who recorded their recollections about the owners and occupiers of the main streets of the town - Broad Street, Castle Street, Lion Street, High Town - and events associated with these properties.

The tales relate to idiosyncratic practices adopted by some shopkeepers, of pranks played by children, of ghosts, fleeting memories, passing love affairs, of characters that once played a large part in the town's life.

With photographic pullouts of the same streets giving a full view of the properties concerned, it is a book that is of interest to both residents and visitors alike and makes each building more than just an architectural feature at which to look or to enter.

103 pages

Paperback

Illustrated

£9.95+ £2 p&p

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