Commons Stories
Commons Stories is a collection of stories from four upland common regions across England: Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the Shropshire Hills.
You’ll find written and photographic portraits of people, short videos, audio clips, and reflections on events through the year, as well as reflections on some of the challenges of building sustainable futures for people and landscape in these special places.
The collection is put together by somewhere nowhere duo, writer Harriet Fraser and photographer Rob Fraser, with contributions from commoners using GoPro cameras to capture snippets of their day-to-day lives on the farm and in the hills.
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Video Diary : Shearing on a Yorkshire Dales Hillfarm, with Will Dawson
For Will Dawson it’s another busy day: time to shear the flock of Dalesbred sheep. In this short film, Will shares the process of shearing the sheep and storing the film and then, with a sigh of relief, letting the sheep back onto Ingleborough Fell.
