Donald Angus was born in Threlkeld in 1937. His father worked in Greenside Lead mine but Donald also remembers him as a great fell walker.

Donald Pattinson was born in Braithwaite in 1942. The family took on the tenancy of Little Braithwaite Farm and Donald has lived and farmed here his whole life. Braithwaite used to support 13 farms, although today only 2 remain.

Dr. Graham Matthews was born in Kirkby Lonsdale in 1929 and went to school in Kirkby and then in Sedbergh. After training as a doctor he came back to Kirkby Lonsdale to join his father’s practice. He continued to work as a GP, with a practice covering a hundred square miles, until he retired twenty three years ago.