Barry Cockcroft
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Barry Cockcroft was a UK television documentary
director, writer and producer. He is best known for his documentary Too Long A Winter about the spinster Hannah Hauxwell
who lived alone on a remote farm in the Pennines.
A researcher at Yorkshire Television
at its inception in 1968, he was making short films about people who lived in the Yorkshire Dales
when he discovered Hauxwell. He went on to write best selling books about her and took her around Europe and to North America for further documentaries.
Another memorable documentary made by Cockcroft was A Romany Summer, featuring a family of Romani Gypsies travelling and living around York, dealing in horses and attending the Appleby Horse Fair
.
Television documentary
Documentary television is a genre of television programming that broadcasts documentaries.* Documentary television series, a television series which is made up of documentary episodes....
director, writer and producer. He is best known for his documentary Too Long A Winter about the spinster Hannah Hauxwell
Hannah Hauxwell
Hannah Hauxwell is a retired English farmer who has been the subject of several television documentaries on Yorkshire Television....
who lived alone on a remote farm in the Pennines.
A researcher at Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television
Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
at its inception in 1968, he was making short films about people who lived in the Yorkshire Dales
Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales is the name given to an upland area in Northern England.The area lies within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, though it spans the ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Cumbria...
when he discovered Hauxwell. He went on to write best selling books about her and took her around Europe and to North America for further documentaries.
Another memorable documentary made by Cockcroft was A Romany Summer, featuring a family of Romani Gypsies travelling and living around York, dealing in horses and attending the Appleby Horse Fair
Appleby Horse Fair
The Appleby Horse Fair is a horse fair which is held annually at Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria in England....
.