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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Exhibition: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Yorkshire
April 19 - September 8th, 2024
Video Short : Shearing at East Okement Farm
There’s an art and a kind of a dance when it comes to shearing sheep. A short film captures the process at East Okement Farm in Dartmoor.
Listen In: Shearing Sheep and keeping calm
Listen to Russell Hamby, Imogen Ogborne and Paul Bowden talk about what it takes to do the job well, in a break while they shear the sheep at East Okement Farm, Dartmoor.