Alan Poxon is a Kite Maker from Gargrave and our Yorkshire Post photographer, James Hardisty, met up with him flying his kites on Malham Moor.
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00:00 My name's Alan Poxon, I'm a kite maker and I live in Gargrave and that's where I make my kites but
00:13 today we're on Mallen Moor right next to the tarn. The wind's fresh, decidedly fresh, so we haven't
00:23 got the big kites out today but I make all sorts of kites of all shapes and sizes. This is a single
00:30 line cellular kite, a snowflake, but I also make two line and four line kites for the enthusiasts
00:38 and I've been doing it for quite a while so I set up as a businessman I suppose in about 2005
00:46 but I've been making kites since I was a kid. I used to steal my mum's carrier bags
00:52 and turn them into kites after I'd worn out the kites that my mum and dad bought me at the seaside
00:58 and that's how long it's been. A lifelong love I suppose of making and flying kites.