Today, the Valleys are recognised as one of the most beautiful places in the Lake District with two vibrant villages that support the local businesses, residents and those who work in the Valleys.

This section is about their stories...both past and present.

The following extracts are from tape recordings made with the people of Langdale during the past 26 years by Ambleside Oral History Group. A new set of Langdale extracts will be available every few weeks.
The archive has many recordings of the first-hand memories of people throughout the Lake District from 1885 to the present day. The entire archive is available to read in transcript form on screen at Ambleside Library, or it can be listened to by request through staff at the library. Requests for local history information from any of the Group's interviews can be made by emailing the Society at history@aohghistory.f9.co.uk … Our website can be found at www.aohghistory.f9.co.uk and there are brochures and a full catalogue of interview titles at Ambleside Library.

'I' stands for 'Interviewer' and 'R' is the respondent, or person being interviewed:

Please choose below -
Elterwater Power Works	Midwife	A death in the Valley	Local dishes	Landgale Co-Op	Bootmaking in Langdale

We hope you enjoy these 'snippets' of Langdale life…..watch out for the next set of extracts which includes a rare interview with a man who recalls coming to Langdale during the second world war as a little boy with his family, who were Jewish refugees. They all lived and worked at the Pillar Hotel on the Langdale Estate where life as a child was fairly exciting - with US troops and gun emplacements round the schoolyard at Chapel Stile!