Author name: Richard Clarke

Green Places 24.

Today’s photo shows a point in Museum Gardens, York at the west end of the standing ruins of St. Mary’s Abbey church. Firstly an apology. The Multangular Tower mentioned yesterday was not built as pat of the perimeter wall of St Mary’s Benedictine Abbey but is in fact the largest standing remnant of the Roman […]

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Green Places 23.

Today’s photo shows the part of the ‘Multangular Tower’ and a bit of the City’s public library, in the corner of the perimeter wall of the ruined St Mary’s Abbey, York. Yesterday took a trip to York on the A47 bus service, which along with the A46 and one or two others comprises a half-hourly

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Green Places 22.

A linear green area is likely to be more biodiverse than isolated ‘islands’. Small mammals, insects, song-birds etc can move along the area without having to cross hostile barren environments. To a field mouse or house mouse a road and two four feet wide pavements is unlikely to be ever crossed, even if the other

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Green Places 20.

Just an addition to yesterday’s blog/text. The redbrick building on the right, behind he Trippett detached burial ground (s.p.b.), is part of Charterhouse Lane School. This elementary ‘board school’ was one of the 37 board schools built between 1870 and 1902 by the municipal authority by the terms of the 1870 Education Act which required

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