Like many working class families, we used to cut turf for our fires in the winter. A visit to an old peat bog brings back some childhood memories…

Tom and Eileen’s house. Glenshesk, 2006.

The lure of an abandoned house is in imagining the story of the people who lived there. Who they were. What their lives were like. Why they left behind their home and where they went to next. But in the case of this hillside house in Glenshesk, I knew the people well.