River Voices with Marsha O'Mahony
On Friday 12th April at 7pm in Cusop Village Hall we enjoyed
an illustrated talk about the oral history project and resulting book“River Voices - Extraordinary Stories from the Wye” by Marsha O'Mahony. In the summer of 2017 a team of Herefordshire Lore interviewers travelled up and down the river, speaking to swimmers, walkers, anglers, ferry women and men, canoeists, bailiffs, ghillies, poachers, bridge keepers and more, recording their stories from this lovely river of ours. From landing a 40-lb salmon at Ballingham, shopping for Devon Minnows at Hatton’s, using the Hunderton ferry river crossing, chasing poachers at Symonds Yat, walking on a frozen river at Whitney-on-Wye, rescuing stranded villagers in flooded Letton, to home-made canoes in Hereford, these are just a few of the tales gathered, illustrated alongside hitherto unseen photos, an excellent record of life on the Wye.
