YP Comment: A Dales legend - Bill Mitchell's legacy lives on

It became the guiding principle of his work and he spent the ensuing 60 years recording, collecting and documenting people’s stories and memories from across the North of England, capturing a world that has since all but disappeared.

Now, two years after the renowned journalist’s death, the priceless photographs he took of working Yorkshire Dales life from a bygone age have been digitised in a scheme run by local arts and heritage charity Settle Stories.

The late Mr Mitchell’s collection includes more than 600 taped interviews and thousands of images, and not only does this project provide an invaluable archive of Yorkshire communities and dialects, it is also a fitting and lasting legacy to a man who, during his life, was like a walking encyclopaedia on the Dales.