As the strap-line in the title suggests, the topics in this book explore lesser known, and often forgotten aspects of an everyday life on a past Exmoor.  Each of these is usually described by those who were actually there and involved, and all are accompanied by photographs, almost all historic, some in colour, and all striking and original.

This book is a reworking of topics originally posted on my Instagram @theporlockpippin account, and is for those who don’t ‘do’ Instagram. Or for those who just like to handle, use, own and refer back to a beautifully produced traditional hardback book, the newest addition to the existing series!

 Contents

• 1950s AA patrol man 
• bark harvesters
• the beacon keepers, hobilers, church bells
• a Beaker burial
• the boy bird scarers
• bombers over the farm
• breaking-in/rounding up Exmoor ponies
• making the Brendon Two Gates road
• the coffin maker
• a cottage honey press
• dovecotes 
• drovers and drove roads
• evacuees 
• everything but the squeak 
• fish weirs and Porlock Harbour
• gating the road
• the goose
• hunting conger eels with dogs 
• holloways
• how to make a haystack/rick
• killing the pig
• laver and other seaweed
• the lighthouse at Foreland Point 
• lime and lime kilns
• the overland lifeboat launch 
• medlars 
• the moss-gatherers 
• ox-shoes and working oxen 
• moving forehead – the three wheel butt
• packhorse bridges and packhorses 
• paddle steamers and arriving by sea
• ploughing with teams of oxen
• pony sales, Brendon and Bampton 
• Porlock Hill – carts and stagecoaches 
• Porlock Hill – first cars 
• porridge for the Queen 
• pigs in England 
• rag rugs and quilting 
• rushes
• rush lights
• Robber’s Bridge and the quarterstaff
• the seed fiddle
• sheep shearing
• soft breathing of warm fleeces 
• spars and spar-gads
• the stone-crackers 
• training a sheep dog 
• time was different all over the country 
• tragic death of David Douglas 
• turf / peat 
• war mules 
• weather forecasting 
• whorts and the whortleberry comb
• woollen wigs and shrouds 
• ex WW1 tramps

Lost Exmoor:
ISBN Number 9-7813739-794446