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Click on the pictures below to hear from the people of Dartmoor about their life on the moor:
 | Garth Grose was a farm labourer in and around Ashburton throughout the 1940s and 1950s. |  | Rose was born and brought up in the parish of Widecombe and still lives there now, she remembers visiting her grandparents as a child. |
 | George Shillibeer remembers the railway line between Yelverton and Princetown. |  | John Arden has fond memories of how sociable harvest time was at his fathers farm at Stiniel. |
 | Mary Warne ran the pub at Peter Tavy where she served simple lunches and cream teas to walkers on the moor. |  | Edith Helley remembers growing up in a house without mains electricity or water. |
| Brian Wonnacott has memories of Frenchbeer Farm in the early 1960's. |  | Ted Dixon Remembers the China Clay industry on Dartmoor before the Second World War. |
 | Bessie French was born and brought up in the parish of Widecombe and remembers her mother making butter to sell at the market. |  | Arthur Courtier has lived his whole life at Haytor where his mother ran a hotel and his father farmed. |
Page updated 20 October 2005
