Larkrise by Keith Dewhurst

Thursday 25th to Saturday 27th April 1996

The Civic Hall, Trowbridge

The hamlet stood on a gentle rise in the flat, wheat-growing north-east corner of Oxfordshire, We will call it Lark Rise because of the great number of skylarks which made the surrounding fells their springboard and nested on the bare earth between the rows of green corn. For a few days or a week or a fortnight, the fields stood ripe unto harvest’. It was the one perfect period in the hamlet year. The 1880’s brought a succession of hot summers, and day after day, as harvest approached the children of the end house would wake to the dewy pearly pink of a fine summer dawn, and the swizzh, swizzh, of the early morning breeze rustling through the ripe corn beyond their doorstep . . .

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Sylvia Seaman

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