Bill Mitchell Collection

A set of walks and drawings. The drawings were made by Bill Mitchell, covering many aspects of the local landscape, its buildings and farming features.  The principal theme is that of use of flagstone quarried locally. The drawings are valuable as a record of many items such as cisterns, troughs, pantry shelves, roofing, flooring, barn boskins, beeboles, clapper bridges, and walling with useful dimensions added.

The walks were undertaken between 2002 and 2006 by a group of friends. Reports of the walks were written up by Bill Mitchell (or by one of the other participants), then distributed to his friends. There are perceptive details about the landscape they walk through, the people they meet and the weather they experience, all written with a delightful sense of humour.