Featuring vintage photography, maps and archive news stories, it captures the personal recollections of some of the people involved in developing the park
"The early years were riven with rows with the county council. Relations were never particularly harmonious until the park finally cut its ties and became independent in 1997. It didn’t help the authority either that it was the planning authority which tended to divert attention from all the other things it was trying to achieve – quarrying in particular for years was a source of regular controversy.
Another subject still debated endlessly, was local occupancy housing. Just last week North Yorkshire became the country’s first area to adopt a mandatory 100 per cent council tax premium for second homes as part of efforts to tackle the area’s housing crisis."Even as early as the mid 1980s there were lengthy debates”, said Mr Watson.The author says the foot and mouth outbreak of 2001, which saw the Dales closed to tourists, changed perceptions.
One person Mr Watson would like to see more recognition of is the “father of the National Parks”. John Dower, lived in Kirkby Malham, and produced the first post-war official report setting out the vision of how to preserve an “extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country” for the public’s benefit. Apart from a plaque in Malham youth hostel, there isn’t a memorial to him in the Dales. Copies are available at any National Park Visitor Centre and online.
14 September 2022 View of sheep in amongst the heather in the late evening sunshine near Hull Pot at the foot of Pen-Y-Ghent above Horton in Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Picture Tony Johnson
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