Exhibitions and Displays
Rambler's Room - New Mills Heritage Centre
Tuesday 16 April to Monday 28 May
Open weekends 10.30am to 4.30pm, weekdays 11am to 4pm (closed Mondays)
With help from High Peak Community Arts, the Heritage Centre is staging a recreation of the ‘typical front room’ from which the ramblers might have set out in 1932: an opportunity to think about why access to the countryside was felt to be so important at that time from the ‘same’ situation as the ‘trespassers’ and to read and hear about reaction to the story, at the time and since.
Commemorative Mural
A mural has been commisioned by Northern Rail and Hope Valley and High Peak Transport Partnership to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Kinder Trespass.
Working drawings by Hayfield artist Claire Parker show images that may form part of the 12x8ft mural.
As part of the inspiration behind the 'story mural', the artist has considered the lives, backgrounds and lifestyles of the ramblers of the 1930s.
The textile industry and cotton mils of Manchester and New Mills were dominant in the lives of many. The mural will weave modern and historical images with seams and threads of text and colour.
Building on the Legacy - New Mills Town Hall
Saturday 21 April - Open to the general public from 3pm to 5.30pm
Displays by national, regional and local organisations concerned with “building on the legacy” – that is protecting and promoting responsible access to the countryside of the Mass Trespass and beyond.
The exhibition presented an opportunity to find out more about and get involved with the continuing campaigns and activities of bodies like the Peak District National Park Authority, the Ramblers Association, The National Trust, Derbyshire County Council Countryside Services, Sheffield Campaign for Access to Moorland, the British Mountaineering Council, Natural England, Moors for the Future, and Friends of the Peak District (Campaign to Protect Rural England).
