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Oh, and towards the end a large, speeding helicopter suddenly emerged from behind the bluff on which the theatre sits – congratulations to the actors who seemed unmoved by this sudden intrusion!
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Freshwater wetlands are considered to be one of the most important natural resources. They provide food, fuel, store and filter water, buffer against flooding and, store carbon. Wetlands are also important sites of recreation, allowing people to get in touch with nature. They also preserve important archaeological records such as organic materials and paleo-environmental deposits.
Over the past 1000 years, wetland habitats have been drained, developed on or polluted leading to a 90% loss of wetland area. Over the past 50 years, more than 100,000 wetland archaeological sites have also been damaged or lost. The dramatic loss of wetlands can be seen in the below maps.
As a consequence of habitat loss, wildlife and ecosystem services have declined or been lost. The majority of fragmented and diminished wetlands currently within the UK’s are also in poor condition.
In 2008 English Heritage, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the RSPB and the…
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St. St. Peter’s Church, Haveringland
‘Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields’,
He said, ‘your lesson to learn’.
And here, in Haver’land’s fields today,
We also, in our turn,
Witness the pageant of seasons,
The ever – changing scene,
Which, where men work along with God
Turns gold, or brown, or green.
Let us remember our forbears,
Who in the years gone by
Surveyed a scene so different,
Yet under the same great sky.
The days of the Abbey, the Market,
The Manor, the Hall – all pass
Each down the road of history,
Now rubble under the grass.
Wars and rumours of wars have come
And gone, like the stately trees,
And now, where the noisy engines roared
We hear the hum of the bees.
We live in a world of changes,
Yet surely the lesson is clear –
Amidst it all, as on a rock,
St. Peter’s stands here,
Symbol of Truths that never change,
Of a faith that never yields,
And we find the Eternal Peace of God
In His Church among the fields.
Jack Kett , 1960
Over the past few months Mark, Peter and Anna and I have been out and about in the villages and parishes in or near the Ouse Washes Landscape area chatting to local residents. We have been asking them to describe how they use the countryside around them, tell us what they know of its heritage and let us know how they value their local landscape.
We are very grateful for the views and opinions of those we spoke to and will be using them to shape the programme going forward. I will post a full report later in the summer but thought you might be interested in some of the ideas people have shared with us and what we have been told around the area.
‘’Everyone knows it is there but not everyone knows what it does’’ Welney resident. We have found this to be true although its existence is…
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The Fens do not appear in the theatre very often. Not having seen this piece myself just yet, but having heard an interview with the director on the radio recently, I was intrigued: ‘Ours was the Fen Country’ is a dance-theatre piece that uses words, movement, music and lights to conjure up some of the atmospheres of the Fens, some of the heaviness and also the beauty.
For Ours Was the Fen Country, Dan Canham interviewed more than 30 Fenland people, from eel catchers and farmers, to stable owners and people who spent their whole lives there.
This is how the promotional website for this work describes the piece:
For the past two years Dan Canham has been capturing conversations with people of the fens in East Anglia. Eel-catchers, farmers, parish councilors, museum keepers, molly dancers and conservationists have all been interviewed. In this etherealpiece of dance-theatre Dan and his…
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