Marking Time: Voices from Bardon

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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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In the 1980s and early 1990s Mantle Arts made a series of recordings of local people talking about their memories of living in North West Leicestershire. The oldest people recorded were born in the nineteenth century, and their memories range through two world wars, working in the pits, stone masonry,...

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