A NEW display and 'listening post' has been installed on Dartmoor, enabling visitors to tap into the 'Moor Memories' oral history project run by Dartmoor National Park Authority.

The project was set up last year to record the story of everyday 20th century life on Dartmoor, in the words of those who worked, lived and played there.

'Rabbits, whortleberries and railways', the compilation of memories collected so far, has been available to visitors at listening posts at the High Moorland Visitor Centre at Princetown since July. But now a further post has been set up at Postbridge Information Centre.

Becky Newell, oral history project officer for Dartmoor National Park Authority, said: 'Rabbits, whortleberries and railways' paints a picture of a Dartmoor when horses were the main source of transport, when water came from the local stream and meals were prepared on an open fire.

'It goes back to a time when visitors to the moor were few and far between — and those that did come arrived by train or charabanc.

'It was a time when farms were much smaller, growing crops as well as raising stock and making cream and butter to sell at the local market.'

More interviews in the Moor Memories oral history project are being carried out and will continue throughout this year.

All the recordings are being fully transcribed to form a permanent archive for future historical reference.

Highlights of the collection are likely to be used in future exhibitions and publications.

The set of three CDs and an accompanying booklet is available for sale at the visitor centre in Princetown and at Postbridge Information Centre, priced £13.75.