Kate M. Mason, 1914-2006

On 24 July 2006, a number of members of the Society for Folk Life Studies joined the tightly packed pews of Addingham Parish Church for a Service of Thanksgiving for the life of Mrs Kate Mason, well known to all who have attended our conferences since their earliest days.Kate Harbutt, the daughter of a Bradford textile company secretary and his health inspector wife, was born in 1914. As she was growing up, her interest in the countryside was fostered by holidays on the Northumbrian coast and at Nether Hesleden, a typical large sheep farm in Littondale. She therefore decided to take a degree course in Agricultural Botany and Bacteriology at Leeds University, graduating in 1935, before studying cheesemaking at Auchincruive in Ayrshire, working on a farm in Lancashire, and as a quality control officer at a dairy in Blackburn

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