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Heritage Open Days in the area

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12/09/2013

HowardJones's avatarOuse Washes: The Heart of the Fens

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This weekend sees the annual Heritage Open Days, where many heritage venues are opening their doors for free. Please check out the national website (https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/) for ideas for your area.

We have already selected some events in and around the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership area you might be interested in:

Ely this weekend is celebrating its rich heritage with a range of events, with its museums and local houses opening their doors for longer, giving you more time to see the local heritage.

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Ely Museum, as part of Heritage Open Days, is holding an event for all ages and are staying open for longer so you can experience a night viewing: on Friday the 13th after 5 pm it is free to enter Ely Museum! This weekend at the Ely Museum is also the last chance for you to see its exhibition about the Old Goal: the last…

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Win A Copy Of ‘The New English Garden’

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10/09/2013

David Marsden's avatarThe Anxious Gardener

I was delighted when Jessica at Aurum Publishing offered me a copy of ‘The New English Garden’ by Tim Richardson to review.  But then I thought, “no David!  Don’t be so selfish – think of your readers.”  And so, I have decided to forgo my copy in order that you might win one.  Just how giving am I?

New English GardenHere’s what Jessica has to say about the book.

“In The New English Garden distinguished garden writer Tim Richardson discusses twenty-five significant English gardens made or remade over the past decade.  Together these represent a coherent overview of what remains probably the most inventive garden culture in the world. 

With stunning photography from Andrew Lawson, The New English Garden presents all that is most interesting and arresting about garden making in England at the start of the twenty-first century.”

The gardens include Christopher Lloyd’s and Fergus Garrett’s Great Dixter, Dan Pearson’s

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Taking advantage of the light.

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08/09/2013

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Early September sees the light values changing in subtle ways. As the sun dips against a blue sky and evening takes over from the day, light comes into the garden from much lower down. This angle has a magical effect on the prairie planting in our Beth Chatto Garden.

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I couldn’t resist taking my camera with long lens out the first time I was lucky enough to spot these first signs of Autumn. Please let me know what you think of these photos. I have included every shot I fired off in a brief ten minutes of special light. Catch the moment!

So here is the gallery warts and all, no interference from Photoshop. As usual click on any photo to get going and then click on the arrow.

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How our love of cars impacts on children’s freedom and what we can do about it

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06/09/2013
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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

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04/09/2013

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Wordless Wednesday

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Did the Romans ride bikes?

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03/09/2013

gillians's avatarPlant Heritage

In Sussex they may well have done so judging by the statues on the Centurion Way.  This cycle route runs from West Dean to near the Roman Palace of Fishbourne on the outskirts of Chichester and provides a welcome alternative to the busy A roads.  On Sunday Mercy met me in Midhurst and we took this route and Salterns Way which takes the cyclist out onto the flats leading to the Witterings.  I am cycling to Amsterdam this coming weekend, so this was to be my final training ride, combined with a visit to Andrew Gaunt’s National Collection of Hedychium.

Transported to the tropics by the scent inside the huge glass house, we were able to see a huge number of cultivars in shades of the brightest orange through yellows and pinks to white.  Some are hardy enough to grow outside – I mulch mine heavily and they have survived the last…

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Wetland Vision

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02/09/2013

jessicaatousewasheslps's avatarOuse Washes: The Heart of the Fens

Heritage Lottery FundFreshwater 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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All Blogged Out!

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gressenhallfw's avatarGressenhall Farm and Workhouse

How time flies when you’re having fun! My twelve month contract as a Heritage Gardening Trainee at Gressenhall has gone in the blink of an eye. It seems barely credible that it’s a year since I started going through the formal induction process, learning how to fill in my hours sheet, file an expenses claim and keep a weekly diary, not to mention the joys of the onsite walkie-talkies and learning everyone’s names. And this is before I even got near a hand-trowel.

The gardening was what it was all about though, not least getting to know the volunteer gardening team. Working mainly in Cherry Tree Cottage garden, I quickly came to learn what a lovely space this garden is to work in, something I could only conclude was down to the effort put in by the volunteers over many years. I’ve always thought this garden space, more than any…

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On finding a Common Cause in connecting with nature

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31/08/2013
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The Church in the Fields

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I came across this poem the other day. It’s written by a chap called Jack Kett, a lovely Norfolk man who was a former Head teacher at the local school and lay preacher at our local church, St. Peter’s, Haveringland. He and his wife were well known local charatcers who have both now passed on. Many of Jack’s poems describe the local Norfolk landscape.

You may recall that some of the money raised from our recent ‘Open Garden’ event is going towards the upkeep of St. Peter’s, which can be seen from our garden. This important local landmark is, sadly, no longer regularly used for church services, but it has a rich history, including having a second world war airfield plonked next to it, which has resulted in the church being a rather lonely feature in an otherwise flat landscape – the ‘Church in the Fields’.

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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

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