Tracing history of school camp

From: Mrs DB Cartwright, Gainsborough Drive, Adel, Leeds.

I READ with interest the article by Yvette Huddleston (Yorkshire Post, June 25) concerning the camp at Linton in Craven. The implication was that the camp was purpose built in 1939 as a residential school, but in fact a camp existed on this site at a much earlier date and I believe it to have been a prisoner of war camp dating from the First World War. Reference is made to it in the book Through a Yorkshire Window, by W Riley, which was first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1919.

W Riley was a prolific writer of novels in the first half of the 20th century and wrote in a style which is no longer fashionable. He was a Methodist lay preacher and many of his books have a moral tale to tell. He set his books in real places which he only half disguised, for example Settle was referred to as Scaleber.

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My copy of Through a Yorkshire Window includes a picture of Grassington Square which is referred to as the Metropolis of the Higher Dale which is instantly recognisable, even without the traffic of today.

Bill will make victims suffer

From: Richard Meggitt, member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), Accident Solicitors Direct, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield.

BURIED at the back of the Government Bill to reform how criminals are punished are proposals which could punish vulnerable people injured through no fault of their own.

It is an affront to justice that people with the most serious injuries could be denied the chance to pursue fair redress, as the ability of lawyers to fund complex cases on a no-win no-fee basis will be restricted. Moreover, it is unfair that an injured person would have to pay some of his legal costs from damages. Damages are carefully calculated to put lives back on track, not to cover legal costs. It is only right that wrongdoers are held to account for the injuries they cause.

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