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The village of Boughton is situated in the agricultural area of south-west Norfolk. The middle tier of the county council government structure in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk. Around Boughton the area is characterised as quite a dense network of villages, to the north Fincham and Barton Bendish, to the east Oxbrough (with its famous […]

Borrowed from Hull Central Library, the above book makes very interesting reading. Published in 2014 it deals with landscapes encountered by the author, not as the sub-title suggests, all lost landscapes. However, the author’s approach makes it all the more meaningful because he connects the areas with his biography, with the landscape and geology central

Today’s photo shows a small ‘no-mow’ area in Pearson Park left for the first time this spring and summer and shows what Nature shows which would otherwise have been just an area of mown grass if not left. Glorious display of buttercups and thistles which, although they might seem uninviting, are a magnet for bees

Published by the East Yorkshire Local History Society back in 2020 this A4 size book is mostly a product of the author’s oral history interviews in the 1970s of elderly ex-farm workers who had worked in the Yorkshire Wolds and Holderness. The chapters are arranged across the farming year from autumn and winter ploughing to

Quite by chance came across this Facebook site where Kayleigh, Dutch but perfect English, has posted a number of YouTube videos on the themes of Man’s evolution and the region of Doggerland (s.p.b.s). They are very informative and presented in an easy listening way. Mostly Kayleigh talking with some still supporting picture evidence, but she

Stanley Park on the outskirts of Blackpool covers a large area (over 200 acres) and dates from the 1920s. Although being a comparatively late municipal park it incorporates all the features of earlier ones such as ornamental flower beds, refreshment pavilion, boating lake, bandstand etc., as well as allocating a large area for team sports