Mosaic Magazine Issue 48 (November 2010)
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Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains? We can’t offer that sort of drama this month but we can offer a herd of buffaloes trotting across the fields of Oxspring. A drop in wholesale milk prices some years ago prompted a change of tack by farmer Stephen Battye and buffalo offered an economic alternative. Mosaic circulates in and around our Pennine villages and we could not resist the stunning images of the moors on our doorstep taken by freelance photographer Robert Falconer. A good picture is one that evokes place, atmosphere and emotion, so shiver as you contemplate his studies of the snowcrusted uplands. Finally, why would a man want to restore phonographs and all the apparatus of obsolete recording systems? A trip to Holmfirth reveals all.
Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains? We can’t offer that sort of drama this month but we can offer a herd of buffaloes trotting across the fields of Ox...