{"id":207,"date":"2020-10-12T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/?p=207"},"modified":"2020-11-15T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:32:55","slug":"celebrating-lancashires-moorlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/celebrating-lancashires-moorlands","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Lancashire’s Moorlands"},"content":{"rendered":"
Celebrating Lancashire\u2019s Moorland Heritage<\/strong><\/h5>\n

A hundred years ago Lancashire writer Allen Clarke published a forgotten masterpiece \u2013 Moorlands and Memories<\/em>, sub-titled \u2018rambles and rides in the fair places of Steam-Engine Land\u2019. Clarke\u2019s biographer, Professor Paul Salveson, has published a new book celebrating Clarke\u2019s original and bringing the story of Lancashire\u2019s moorland heritage up to date.<\/p>\n

Maxine Peake, in her foreword to Paul\u2019s book, says \u201cHill walking, cycling, literature, philosophy, protest and The North\u2026. these are a few of my favourite things.\u201d She adds \u201cPaul Salveson\u2019s new book on Allen Clarke is irresistible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarke\u2019s book was conversational, philosophical, radical and lyrical. Paul\u2019s celebration covers some of the ground that Allen Clarke wrote about \u2013 handloom weavers, dialect writers, the Winter Hill \u2018mass trespass\u2019, links to Walt Whitman and that fearsome Lancashire creature, the boggart. He discusses Clarke\u2019s links with Tolstoy and his attempts to \u2018get back to the land\u2019 at a commune near Blackpool \u00a0and the great Barrow Bridge picnic in support of the locked-out Bethesda quarrymen in 1901. The book recalls one of Bolton\u2019s first \u2018refugees\u2019 who lived on Halliwell Road.<\/p>\n

Clarke was both a keen cyclist and walker. His original book includes rides and rambles through Rossendale and Pendle as well as around Rivington, Belmont and Edgworth, with associated tales. The Clarion Cycling Club and the Clarion ILP Tea Rooms at Roughlee features, as does \u2018The Barlow\u2019 in Edgworth and Darwen Tower. Paul adds in some stories from the last hundred years including \u2018summer evenings with old railwaymen\u2019 at the moorland station of Entwistle and Gandhi\u2019s visit to Lancashire. The renaissance of the East Lancashire Railway is included in the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to write more than a \u2018then and now\u2019 book, though I do explore many of the places that Clarke originally described and how they have changed,\u201d said Paul. \u201cOur moors remain a precious asset which we neglect at our peril. They are amongst the few places that haven\u2019t been \u2018locked down\u2019 during Covid-19 and are there for everyone to enjoy. I hope that my book will add to their appreciation.\u201d<\/p>\n

How to buy it<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The book is priced at \u00a321 (plus \u00a34 postage) and is now available. See ‘How to buy my books’ page or click on to:<\/p>\n

Lancashire Loominary Order Form<\/a><\/p>\n

It is available at selected shops including Wright Reads of Horwich, Bunbury’s real ale shop, Pendle Heritage Centre and more.\u00a0 If you know of a shop that would like to take copies let me know. I generally avoid chain booksellers but happy to do sale or return from any local shop that\u2019s interested.<\/p>\n

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Celebrating Lancashire\u2019s Moorland Heritage A hundred years ago Lancashire writer Allen Clarke published a forgotten masterpiece \u2013 Moorlands and Memories, sub-titled \u2018rambles and rides in the fair places of Steam-Engine Land\u2019. Clarke\u2019s biographer, Professor Paul Salveson, has published a new book celebrating Clarke\u2019s original and bringing the story of Lancashire\u2019s moorland heritage up to date. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lancashireloominary.co.uk\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}