BRONTË BEDFORD-PAYNE’s early influences included a large part of childhood with her sister, when every holiday was spent in Drebley, and some school-days in Burnsall as an evacuee during the early years of the Second World War. Later, they lived at Club Nook and travelled daily on the local bus to Leeds Girls’ High School, when part of it was evacuated to the Hall at Bolton Abbey.
Towards the end of the war, they travelled by bus to Ilkley Grammar School before returning to Essex where her parents lived. She then won a place in the Medical School at University College Hospital, London, where she qualified as a Dental Surgeon. Having married a fellow student, she had a son and a daughter and practiced Dentistry until she reached retirement age. In 1978 she and her family moved to a house on the bank of the river Wharfe outside Grassington and established
a dental practice there.
Earlier influences over the writing of this book come from her forebears who have farmed most recently at Drebley and Club Nook, and also from Low Trenhouse, Malham Moor, and Windypike, Hanlith. Brontë is an Honorary Life Member of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society, where she and her colleague Heather Beaumont were leaders of the Local History Group. She has always been inspired by the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, its flora and fauna, its historical development and her association with it through the family farms and her marriage in the ancient Priory Church at Bolton Abbey.
BRONTË BEDFORD-PAYNE’s early influences included a large part of childhood with her sister, when every holiday was spent in Drebley, and some school-days in Burnsall as an evacuee during the early years of the Second World War. Later, they lived at Club Nook and travelled daily on the local bus to Leeds Girls’ High School, when part of it was evacuated to the Hall at Bolton Abbey.
Towards the end of the war, they travelled by bus to Ilkley Grammar School before returning to Essex where her parents lived. She then won a place in the Medical School at University College Hospital, London, where she qualified as a Dental Surgeon. Having married a fellow student, she had a son and a daughter and practiced Dentistry until she reached retirement age. In 1978 she and her family moved to a house on the bank of the river Wharfe outside Grassington and established
a dental practice there.
Earlier influences over the writing of this book come from her forebears who have farmed most recently at Drebley and Club Nook, and also from Low Trenhouse, Malham Moor, and Windypike, Hanlith. Brontë is an Honorary Life Member of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society, where she and her colleague Heather Beaumont were leaders of the Local History Group. She has always been inspired by the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, its flora and fauna, its historical development and her association with it through the family farms and her marriage in the ancient Priory Church at Bolton Abbey.
