THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The Savages camped in Dales villages and entertained the locals in village halls and pubs at a time when there were few pleasures to be had in the countryside and the farm labourer had little money to spend.  They wore Indian head-dresses at meetings which were called ‘Pow Wows’, with Savages taking it in turns to defray the cost of keeping the punch bowl overflowing.  Their Chief was Edmund Bogg, a self-made scholar and antiquarian, and author of more than a dozen volumes.  His writing had a reverential and ecstatic quality which might not appeal today.

Black/Thoresby, 1979