The third part of Andrew Bibby's Cumbrian Fells Trilogy, following on from 'In the Cold of the Night' and 'The Bad Step', where DI Chrissy Chambers and journalist Nick Potterton set out to uncover who has fire-bombed a local environmentalist's camper van. Set among the beauty of the mountains and lakes of England's most popular National Park.
The co-operators of Hebden Bridge were to producer co-operation what the Rochdale Pioneers were to consumer co-operation - pioneers. Driven by a desire to create their own employment under their own control, weavers, cutters and machinists at the Nutclough fustian mill developed a successful business in a small Pennine town. At its peak it empl
For Nick Potterton, the once high-flying London journalist who has moved to the Cumbrian countryside, Davie Peters' death should be just another story to cover. But the longer he investigates, the more disturbing questions he has to answer. Was the death of one of England's most talented young athletes during a traditional Lake District fell race as accidental as it seemed? Or is somebody hiding the full story of what happened at the rock-face high in the mountains that is known as the Bad Step?
The staff at Greensleeves residential park are undertaking the Three Peaks Challenge for charity. But their attempt to climb the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales in one weekend goes badly wrong. As they begin the walk up Scafell Pike in the Lake District their boss disappears. Next day his half-naked body is found in a moorland bog, miles off route. As the police begin their enquiry Nick Potterton, once a successful London journalist but now a struggling part-time freelance for the local press, also investigates. The 'Body in the Bog' story becomes the paper's front page lead and it falls to Nick to try to find out exactly how Richard Meade met his death.
Andrew Bibby sets out to cycle from the English Channel to the Humber, following the great stone belt of 'Cotswold' limestone which has left its mark so powerfully on the countryside. This is a journey of discovery into a very special landscape, and the author draws on themes as varied as social history, literature, land usage, agriculture and rural life today to gain a deeper understanding of the factors that shape the land. This wonderful book, with full colour photographs, celebrates the beauty of this area of England but also does very much more. Thoughtful, well-informed, sometimes provocative, Andrew Bibby goes beyond the superficial to reveal a Middle England which is considerably more complex than many might imagine.
The years before the First World War saw the development of a widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at affordable rents through co-operative and community endeavour.