I WAS interested to read in The Press, Thursday, June 7, in the Way We Were entry for 100 years ago, a reference to the celebrated wildfowler of East Cottingwith.
However, his name was Snowden (not the Welsh mountain!) Slights (not the village near Whitby).
The guns he used are in the Yorkshire Museum and were exhibited in the village hall at East Cottingwith in April, 1991, along with the punt which was being cared for at a farm near Wheldrake.
It would be wonderful if they could be reunited and exhibited together, perhaps in the Yorkshire Museum, to bring to the people of the present day something of a previous era. I have a personal involvement as my grandfather, George Amos Slights, worked with his uncle, wildfowling in the shooting season and basket-making in the close season.
Hilary E Slights, Hovingham, York.
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