The photo above shows the stump of one of Pearson Park’s evergreen oak trees. Not a victim of the gales recently (s.p.b.) but rather of the unrelenting rain. The mature tree, almost certainly dating from the original planting of the 1860s, was a victim of its own ‘design’ in that with clinging-on to much of […]
The word ‘green’ has come to be a general term for biodiversity, Nature, wildlife and so on and implies support by people for those things and sadness at their loss. It’s an obvious term and has been around for a long time. Also it’s not an ‘ology’, although it encompasses ‘ologyies’,and is therefore accessible to
A photo of Lincoln Cathedral’s Tournai marble font, one of only four (I think) in England made from this rock, one of the others being in the rural parish church at Thornton Curtis, between Goxhill and Wooton in North Lincolnshire. The mention of Sheffield cathedral prompted me to return to this topic for this one
Cathedrals (again). Read More »
I don’t have a photo of St. George’s church, Doncaster but do have of Rotherham church – significance to follow. Rotherham Minster is a squat building with almost exaggerated verticality. The church square area has been well designed and affords a pedestrianised area for socialising, the church seems rather brooding, mainly because it needs a
The best part of the town (as far as I know) to see evidence of its Georgian and later industrial heyday is in the area on, and around, South Parade, which leads from the edge of the town centre to the Racecourse. Alongside the wide road stand a number of late Georgian buildings, this road
Best to visit Doncaster by train as it gives the opportunity to enjoy the business of a main East Coast Line station. To sit on platform 8 and see that King’s Cross to Edinburgh trains gliding in (see above), and leaving with almost silent acceleration is captivating. But the real buzz comes when one of