DAVE CHERRY _DLC
THE WOODHEAD DIARIES
Read this amazing debut novel by Dave Cherry
Workmen find two skeletons in an old Victorian shaft. The bodies date from the 1840s, when Irish navvies dug the first tunnel.
Young CID Sergeant Susan Priestley follows a trail that takes her to Dublin, where a sensitive diary has been locked away for over a hundred years.
Slowly, Susan unravels the murder plots and discovers a Victorian world of establishment intrigue and hypocrisy.
“Dave Cherry lives and breathes Barnsley and its history, culture and passion like a seam of coal through rock.” - Andy Kershaw, BBC Radio Sheffield.
“Dave is a multi- talented songwriter, playwright, archive film historian, and now an author! Everything he does has the golden Midas touch.” - Barnsley Councillor Phillip Birkinshaw.
“Dave Cherry’s wonderful skills and humour have enlivened the lives of Barnsley Chronicle readers for years.” - John Threlkeld , retired Barnsley Chronicle deputy editor.
“This is a book I can’t wait to read! Barnsley’s latest novelist is writing about the Huskar mining disaster.”
- Mel Dyke, education consultant, lecturer and writer.
Around The Woodhead Diaries Promotional Video
A promotion film by Dave Cherry.
The Barnsley singer and social historian has written a book called THE WOODHEAD DIARIES and this film is the background behind his novel.
The storyline follows a 1952 CID Sergeant who tracks a murder trail from the 1840's when the Pennine railway tunnel was being constructed by Irish navvies.
Queen Victoria sets up a Royal Commission to investigate the hundreds of deaths in the tunnel and appoints an Irish Earl to head it. Falling rock and cholera account for many of the high fatalities but skeletons, who have been murdered, are found when the 1952 tunnel is being dug. These date from the original 1840's tunnels.
The Earl kept a diary that was so sensitive for the establishment it was locked up in Dublin Castle.
