A day of bright sunshine and brisk autumn weather, and after a morning that called for scraping ice off the car, I had a lovely afternoon in Monsal Dale. We had been hoping for a poetry group who didn’t arrive so I cheerfully accosted visitors to the Dale, giving out copies of our 18th and 19th century prints of the dale and inviting people to find the 21st century version of the same scene
Lots of laughter and uncertainty – now to wait and see what comes back!
A challenge for anyone walking in Monsal Dale – can you find the scenes in our
“wanted” posters?
The actual landscape rarely looks like the artistically enthused views of the 18th Century (even with a couple of hundred years of change)…so look for somewhere similar or an action and a venue that holds a similar feel
Send them to us at: footstepsandechoes@yahoo.com
The first series of “Wanted” posters are now available for downloading…encourgaing people to go searching, exploring, delving and staring and fidnign the places that shaped earleir artists’ imaginations.
A Dovedale series are now on line: Millers, Monsal and Chee dale are to follow.
You are invited to take your own photos to capture a similar – or even the same- scene and send it in
We tried. We did. We really did. Car full of exciting resources: costumes, cloth for inventing new costumes, cameras, pogo printers, boxes of animals for timelines of life through the dale And it poured. And poured. And we got soaked. Gave up and staggered homewards dripping. Bother. But “wanted” posters will be online later today and the surprising sight of mammoths in the rain, braver than us, will warm our hearts for many a chilly autumn eve
exciting information to follow!