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Upon release, he continued his political activity, any chance of resuming his studies now gone. Initially he returned to printing, but before long began to develop a successful career in journalism, writing about walking and the countryside and repeatedly pressing the case for greater access to the Pennine hills. By the early 1930s, he was reaching a national audience, first as editor of the TUC-controlled Hiker and Camper magazine, then via his regular contributions to the widely read Daily Herald newspaper. The editor gave him more or less free rein to press the ramblers’ cause, and this was the platform that allowed him to conjure up the idea of a long green trail.

Many years later, when the Pennine Way was officially opened, Tom was quoted as saying that, when he wrote the famous 1935 article, he never imagined the Pennine Way would ever be realised and that he was taken aback at the public’s enthusiastic response. Perhaps he was being typically modest, but immediately following publication of the article, he and fellow access campaigner Edwin Royce were persuaded to persevere with the idea by T (Thomas) Arthur Leonard, another of the great campaigners of the time, who among other things co-founded the Co-operative Holidays Association.

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