In these photos provided by Eric's Daughter Joyce we see Eric and the Hartley's Dray in the 70s, Eric in his Lindal Moor Cricket cap in the 1930's , and his obituary notice in the North West Evening Mail from 1994.  The articles below collect Eric's personal history of Hartley's, and were kindly supplied by Roger Black of the Cumbria Industrial History Society.
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