Marking Time: Voices from Bardon
weight: 450.0 g
Product Code: MLP/H/2
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Bardon is a lost village of Leicestershire, demolished in 1989 to make way for a quarry and it's inhabitants rehoused. Marking Time is a record of Bardon Village by the people who lived there. Oral history, creative writing and visual art work undertaken with school children all combine to tell the story of the tiny settlement, now gone forever.
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