Sewerby Hall Park.

Last Thursday went on the train to Bridlington specifically to re-visit Sewerby Hall gardens and parkland. Being of a certain age I even took the ‘land train’ from the Leisure Centre to the Hall, but did walk back. The peripheral walk around the parkland is under the narrow avenue of trees planted around the edge,

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August.

August is not, in my opinion, an august month; being not very impressive. Most wild flowers and trees have finished flowering and are already seeding, thankfully the willow herb is now in full flower and provides an impressive display where there is a thick stand of these perennials – Tudor name ‘codlings and cream’, reminiscent

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Harvest Holidays 2.

The above image of harvest comes from a 14th century manuscript identified as Queen Mary Psalter (fol.78v), c.1310; known as Queen Mary Psalter because it was confiscated by the Tudor Queen Mary in the 1550s. It shows three serfs cutting what appears to be wheat using sickles, this prior to stooking. The fourth figure is

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