July 2018

The ruined south façade of Wressle Castle is a Grade 1 ‘listed ruin’, being 10 years or so past classed as ‘at risk’ various works were done to ‘increase the shelf-life’ of this standing ruin.  Estimated to have originally been built in the late 14th century it was built to the standard lay-out plan of a […]

Yesterday evening’s Country File programme included a section on the Hampton Court flower show. An aerial view showed the Tudor period house beside a meander of the River Thames. Built, originally, to the instructions of Cardinal Wolsey early in the reign of the second Tudor monarch Henry VIII Hampton Court was a grand example of the

News from the World Wildlife Fund – In Colombia, north South America, a vast area of Amazonian rain forest has been officially designated a national park and U.N.E.S.C.O. World Heritage Site. The Serrania del Chiribiquete national park, now the largest national park protecting rain forest, is home for a multitude of species, some endangered such

Three fine avenues of trees in this region are; two in Baysgarth Park, Barton and the avenue running east to west down the centre of Queen’s Gardens, Hull. I am advised, although not by an expert, that the trees in question are limes. Certainly limes have been a popular choice for planting in public parks throughout