The classic changes of autumn are slow to unfold this year. Horse chestnut trees, their leaves changing to russet brown in late August, are still clinging on to quite a lot of their dry brittle leaves. The beech tree (near me) seems to still have a dense leaf cover although the leaves have have turned […]
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
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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