Neil Hanson's Blog - Posts Tagged "cumbria"

There's a feature on The Inn at the Top (revealing it's real name, if you haven't already identified it) on Look North on BBC TV (North-East England and Cumbria) tonight. Take a look on Twitter @phillipchapman7 (the guy who made the film). It may also appear on the Yorkshire version of the programme at some point this week. If you're not lucky enough to be living in the North of England, you should be able to catch it on i-player or Sky, etc. Here's the iplayer link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...

A really nice piece on "Pigs Might Fly" and the real life "Inn at the Top" (aka Tan Hill), filmed by Philip Chapman , was broadcast on BBC TV's Look North (the North-East and Cumbria version) last night. If you're quick you can catch it here till 7pm today (Thursday13th August)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...
It contains a few clips from a documentary made back in the 1980s when I owned the inn, and the frighteningly young-looking protagonist brought back memories of the daily struggle to start the generator and dropping down through a hole in a snow drift considerably taller than my six foot four inches, in search of the water pump. Happy days?!