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Working for the Water BoardGerald EastwoodI’d be walking round. There used to benotice boards up, like there still is, “It’sprivate, no public access” and the like... when I started work the gaffer usedto say, “If there’s anybody at the side ofthe reservoirs and they aren’t membersof the fishing club, turn them out; oranywhere on the [gathering] ground ... Ifthey haven’t no paper to say they shouldbe there, turn them out.”Mr JohnsonHeather burningKen DrabbleActually, if you had a very goodgamekeeper, and there were someexceptional men, they always hid firebreaks in the heather because burningpatterns was habitat for the grouse. Andso if you had a swathe which was burnedout, that was a fire break should therest get on fire ... so management of themoors is all in with it yeah. In fact thebig dykes that you see, Black Dyke andwhatever, the’re not dykes for fire really,they were for shooters to go from oneset of butts to another set of butts.I remember ourfirst winter here...John Gill...the farmer next door came outone day and the snow had driftedup to the wall, it was feet deep, youcould hardly see the top of the wall.He was walking up and down on topof the wall and he had a long rod…he was feeling down with this probeand he had a sheep dog with him.The sheep dog was sniffing and they[were] trying to find sheep which hadbeen buried in the snow.Walkers’ cafesBill EmminghamYou see you can’t go to a café nowwith your own sandwiches. Youcould in the past. Alport Castleswhere we used to go with old BertWard, we used to go there and haveus sandwiches. Mrs Lancaster’s atCastleton, you could always have yoursandwiches in there and a pot of tea,just at the bottom of Cave Dale.There used to be one at Owler Bar,the Curlew, all over place therewere cafes, Alport, nearYoulgreave, there were a cyclist’scafé. Villages had them, more thanone. It’s totally changed now, it’sbusiness, everything works formoney, whereas we didn’t have thatproblem, we had no money andeverbody that were doing anythinglike cafes or whatever they weredoing it because they enjoyed yourcompany.www.moorsforthefuture.org.ukwww.moorsforthefuture.org.ukwww.moorsforthefuture.org.ukMoor Memories is funded by: The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peak District National Park Authority, English Heritage, East Peak InnovationPartnership, South Pennine LEADER, the National Trust, United Utilities and the Sheffield Ramblers.Moor Memories is funded by: The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peak District National Park Authority, English Heritage, East Peak InnovationPartnership, South Pennine LEADER, the National Trust, United Utilities and the Sheffield Ramblers.Moor Memories is funded by: The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peak District National Park Authority, English Heritage, East Peak InnovationPartnership, South Pennine LEADER, the National Trust, United Utilities and the Sheffield Ramblers.