Born in 1936 in the Raffles area of Carlisle Geoff’s interest in birds started when he was seven. With friends he would cycle to Brough Marsh to look for curlew, lapwing and skylark nests.

George ‘Geordie’ Hutton was born in 1934 at Hall House farm in Bassenthwaite.  In 1947 the family moved to Setmabanning Farm in Threlkeld and he and his family have farmed at Setmabanning ever since.    Geordie’s memories begin when farms were in many ways very different – smaller, with less stock and more workers, and no mechanisation and no artificial manure.

Guy Greenwood was born in South Africa, his family originated in the Kendal area dating back to the 1500s. His father was a clergyman and having emigrated in 1920, returned to the UK in 1930.