The Fred Barlow Archive

It was a great pleasure to meet Fred Barlow last week. A retired park ranger and local historian, Fred has written several books about the town and the surrounding landscape.



Although not comfortable with being recorded himself for the Tour, Fred has allowed us to use as much of his vast archive information as we need (which includes over 3000 slides). This includes transcripts of interviews Fred made with craftsmen such as, the long gone, swill basket makers. Fred has expressed a desire to donate his archive to an appropriate organisation for public access and display - if you know of anyone who may be interested please contact us and we will pass the details on.

Fred has offered to give us a tour of the town which we will soon take him up on!