It proved very insightful and Sarah signposted us to Alf's website.
" Those years saw the Clee Hill dialect diluted, two stone quarries close and the Dhu Stone incline railway become obsolete. There was a population influx and considerable commuting to work."
Alf Jenkins MBE, was born on Titterstone Clee Hills, South Shropshire, England in the 1930s. His home was Dhu Stone Inn, built for miners, railway workers and stone quarry men.
His father was an undertaker, wheelwright, smallholder and publican.
The area was a remote hive of industry with its own brand of farming and unique dialect.
"Alf and his wife Ann have a passion for the importance of social history. As a result they have recorded many local people with links with the past in order to document valuable social and industrial material which would otherwise have been lost forever.
Alf has spent much of the last twenty five years promoting the uniqueness of South Shropshire’s Clees, the only hills in England to be illustrated on Hereford’s famous Mappa Mundi.
Alf is an expert on "The Clee Hills Dialect" so much so that he has been sought after, filmed and recorded for BBC’s Nation’s Voices Project, Midlands Today, Inside Out, Countryfile (John Craven) Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Radio stations, Open Country (Radio Four), Five Live with Simon Mayo and the Press.
On his website you will find many of his books and crafts.
Sarah also told us " Did you know that Titterstone Clee is the only hill in England named on the Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral? Also that the Elan Valley pipeline was relaid in 1922 and the concrete pipes were made on Clee Hill at the quarry."
So I asked sarah to send him a link to our speculations on the Ghost rail track on the school playground which we've decided must have been caused by the offshoot water pipe from the Elan Valley pipes that run through the lower playing field in the school in case he has any insights about it to share with us.
The link is here. http://wyrefarmed.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/ghost-rail-on-school-playground.html
Alf has spent much of the last twenty five years promoting the uniqueness of South Shropshire’s Clees, the only hills in England to be illustrated on Hereford’s famous Mappa Mundi.
Alf is an expert on "The Clee Hills Dialect" so much so that he has been sought after, filmed and recorded for BBC’s Nation’s Voices Project, Midlands Today, Inside Out, Countryfile (John Craven) Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Radio stations, Open Country (Radio Four), Five Live with Simon Mayo and the Press.
On his website you will find many of his books and crafts.
Sarah also told us " Did you know that Titterstone Clee is the only hill in England named on the Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral? Also that the Elan Valley pipeline was relaid in 1922 and the concrete pipes were made on Clee Hill at the quarry."
So I asked sarah to send him a link to our speculations on the Ghost rail track on the school playground which we've decided must have been caused by the offshoot water pipe from the Elan Valley pipes that run through the lower playing field in the school in case he has any insights about it to share with us.
The link is here. http://wyrefarmed.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/ghost-rail-on-school-playground.html
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