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			Arthur Wheeldon, Moor Cottage Farm, Wirksworth Moor.		Click on the thumbnails above to enlarge
			Life and Death in Pictures
			As Derbyshire farmer Arthur Wheeldon (pictured above) listened to the latest distressing foot and mouth news on his fireside radio at Moor Cottage Farm, Wirksworth Moor, he confessed to photographer Kate Bellis that he felt "ready for a box". Last November he died, aged 83. " I sit here and listen to the wireless and all you hear is more and more cases," he told Bellis. "It's a rum job, all that killing and burning. They've gone mad." Bellis has spent five years living among sheep farmers in the north of the country. A book of her photographs, On The Edge, was published in 2001 with text by Michael Simmons. When the two began the project, foot and mouth was a memory from the 1960's. When they finished, it was an all too present horror.