CLARION CALL: Sheffield’s Access Pioneers, by Dave Sissons, Terry Howard, and Roly Smith

The steel city of Sheffield has played a leading role in the fight for access to its so-called “Golden Frame” and eventually to the rest of the country. And the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers Club, and their founder GHB Ward, were at the forefront of that fight.

Published to mark the 60th anniversary GHB Ward's death, this book, by Dave Sissons, Terry Howard and Roly Smith, and with a foreword by Rony Robinson, reproduces many of the group's rambles, photographs, Ward's writings, and essays on the locations in the Peak District where the group would often meet and walk.

Ward founded the Clarion Ramblers in 1900, one of the first rambling clubs in the country. For half a century. Ward almost single-handedly produced the avidly-collected Clarion Handbooks, and he and other pioneers led the battle for the right to roam. Drawing on many previously unseen glass plate photographs illustrating some of the earliest Clarion rambles, this book is a celebration of the Clarion’s – and Sheffield’s – place in the century-long fight for access to the moorlands,

This is a 92-page paperback book.