From a recorded conversation between Bill and Giles Cooper summer 2019
Bill Shaw was Project Manager for Tong Calverley Urban Fringe project 1976-81 for Leeds …
Early Days of British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
The Conservation Corps was founded in 1959 by the Council for Nature to provide a force of volunteers to manage the then newly established National …
Riding the Tiger
Transcribed from an audio interview at Ruskin Land
In 1973 John Iles was a mechanical engineering graduate trainee with the CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) …
Working at Hollybush
My memory is going out from here to help on dry stone walling and clearing foot paths. We all went out in the van in …
The Old Hollybush Caravan
I remmember this place from over the years.
Back in the early 1980s I was helping start up Meanwood Valley Farm and I towed an …
The ‘original’ TCV
I went there to have a look around in the late 70s, with Bill Shaw, then the Countryside Warden for Tong-Cockersdale and leader of the …