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The story is that in 1862 the various attractions at the now closed Hull Zoological Gardens just north of Spring Bank were being sold off. We already know that at this time a fountain and rockery were transferred from the Gardens to the recently created Pearson Park but Folly Flaneuse tells us that also bought […]

Just to add a quote that should have been included in the last blog/post – ‘Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament’. The two pictures above are copies of postcard pictures from a few decades past, the bottom one a photograph the top a painting. Copies of these postcards have been

2/01/’25 While doing some online research for chapter two of proposed book (s.p.b.) I came across a very interesting website called The Folly Flaneuse, although the creator calls it a series of blogs/posts. Although she does not give her name she is a she as Flaneuse is the feminine form of the noun. The word

2/01/’25. Not resolutions but clear objectives – to continue first draft of proposed book on Hull’s municipal Parks and Cemeteries in the national context. Have done a first draft of the first three chapters over ‘festive period’. to only give public talks that are already planned. to actually get round to some domestic decorating. to

Although Man (homo sapiens) and animals (generally mammals) function together in many ways, usually the former using the latter for utilitarian purposes, the relationship between Man and dogs is all but unique, and seems, in one way or another, to have evolved across all continents except Antarctica. If this relationship developed early in the history

The second wall picture shows three dogs that I had earlier than Tess (s.p.b.). In fact the little dog swimming bottom right in Boughton pond was my family’s dog when I was a child. Called Pat, this photo must have been taken in the early 1960s. One week I was taken to spend a few