May 2018

Following from last blog have found that the thorn bush binding the coastal sand-dunes south of Cleethorpes Leisure Centre is called sea buckthorn. The picture above, showing just one branch, is taken from Phillips, R. Wild Flowers of Britain (Pan Books, 1977, 35). It is a native shrub found on sand-dunes (usually planted to ‘fix’ the

Recently went on the train from Barton to Cleethorpes, didn’t set off ’till late but the afternoon and evening were fine so it was very pleasant. Dog is now banned from the sandy beach so walked along promenade to the Leisure Centre and along the base of the vegetated dunes from thereon. The thorn bush

Picture above – View north-west through gap in the hedge from west end of Westfield Rd., Barton. Although not always relevant to the topic of density of population, the alternating ‘densities’ along both banks of the Humber Estuary are interesting. Starting near the mouth of the Humber on the south bank stands the seasonal high density

So knowledge of/control of a nation’s population is essential to the efficient management of a nation’s economy, welfare provision and future planning. My personal opinion is that ‘free movement of labour’ within the, then, Common Market made some sense within a few like-minded nations – if only because back then it was to the advantage of

Of course the overall figure of persons per square mile across the whole area of a nation is a crude yardstick. In the case of Britain, for example, the new housing policy immediately following the Great War (‘Homes for Heroes’) required a density of new-builds, mostly for working class people, of four to the acre. Given