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From Steve Clough : stephenclough@tiscali.co.uk I remember staying at West Hind Keld when it was a holiday cottage, it would have been 1965 I believe. What I remember most (I was only 9 or 10 years old) was that there was no running water (obtained from a stream in the yard) and no electricity (heat and light by calor gas). I wonder if anyone else has any recollections of this.

From David Bracken  I remember the electricity being brought up Garsdale (1960-61) and Calor Gas lighting in the 1950s. I also remember the water supply for Garsdale School being drilled in the field behind the school. We watched for weeks as they brought out layers of different-coloured rock, then eventually a jet of water shot up to a height of 30 feet and formed a lake behind the school. The water was very pure except that it had hydrogen sulphide dissolved in it, so the smell of rotten eggs put many people off drinking it.  Some of us were quite happy to drink it cold from the tap, but the smell got worse as it warmed up.

Joan, who lives in Perth, Australia is the daughter of Amy Chapman who was employed as domestic servant by Richard Bell Pratt at Clough View until her marriage to Thomas Bousfield of Hawes in 1915. If anyone has any information about either Amy or Thomas, or is related to either of them, she would be very interested to hear.

From Nikki Garnett My Mum grew up in Garsdale, her name was Almena Aldridge and our family had lived there for generations – the Kayleys, the Wilkinsons etc. I remember going to see my Great Auntie Alice and Great Uncle Wally at Pinfold House when I was little, they had a sweetshop at the front but all the stock was stored on the beams in the living room, I used to sit for hours just wishing one of the boxes would fall into my lap.  We then used to go next door to Pinfold Farm to see Uncle Tommy and Auntie Janet who sometimes had baby chicks or a lamb by the fire that they were hand rearing.  Coming from Lancaster, I couldn’t understand a word my Uncle Tommy said, but it was always a warm and welcoming place to go to.  My Mum has lots of stories, one that sticks in my children’s head is of her and my Auntie Rose deciding to go off down the river in a tin bath.  Unfortunately they hadn’t thought that there was a hole where the plug should go and as they got to the middle it started to sink.  Their Uncle George had to jump in and rescue them (and the bath which I suppose was needed at bathtime).  I have some lovely photos which I will scan and upload one day soon.

Phil Willoughby (pwilloughby@uwclub.net) writes:     I used to live at Garsdale Foot Farm from 1990 to 1995.    My wife and I opened what must have been one of the remotest    restaurants in the country there.    Our water supply came from a spring on the top of Baugh Fell    and I have fond memories of clearing frogs out of the outlet    pipe at midnight one Christmas Eve during a blizzard.    Looking at your site it appears not much has changed and it    is still a remote and beautiful place.

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