Grizedale. A sense of place - ACE195.4

Visitors play on Frost’s Shootin’ Moose (1987). Frost talking about Last Stand at Boggle Crag (1985). Isles talks about preserving "the sense of being on your own". Blindfolded children following the guide-ropes. Bill Grant, administrator of the sculpture project, fishing. He talks about the artists’ residency scheme. Richard Harris collecting spruce stems. He talks about his work at Grizedale. Hollow Spruce (1980). He likes the idea that the sculptures are temporary. Commentary talking about coppicing the woodlands. Bill Hogarth, stripping bark (to be sent to a tannery) from a tree trunk, is the only coppicer left in the valley. He explains the principles. Early photographs showing coppiced wood being made into many different products. Charcoal burner. Walter Lloyd, talks about the revival of the charcoal industry for cooking, drawing and medicinal purposes.