On retiring from the Prison Service in Hull I came with my wife to Bentham to be near life-long friends in Kirkby Lonsdale. We picked Bentham as it was similar to the outskirts of Exeter where we were brought up and also had a large farming community. I feel strongly that the contents of the Hesleton diaries, a history of 60 years of local farming and ‘goings on’ in the area, should be available to everyone, hence this, my first – and possibly only – venture into publishing.
Peter Phillips
2QT Publications
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