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The Lost Estate of Fisherwick
I’m really enjoying taking part in Pastorm, a new collaborative history experiment created by Mark of Tamworth Time Hikes. Here’s a link to the site, which explains exactly what Pastorm is and what it...
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Wood Work
This week started with a brand new orchard and ended with an ancient woodland. Last weekend, I helped to plant cider trees at Woodhouse Community Farm in Fisherwick. It wasn’t just the potential liquid...
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Tree Following: Sticking it out
To contrast with Leomansley Woods, I’m also following the newly planted cider orchard at The Walled Garden at Woodhouse Community Farm. The majority of the orchard was planted on a cold but sunny day...
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Tree following: In theory
I know I haven’t updated about the cider orchard at The Walled Garden at Woodhouse Community Farm for a while. This is because nothing much has happened! More is going on in our cider co-operative...
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Bell Vista
A while ago, I wrote about the architect Thomas Johnson and how he had been involved in the restoration of the church of St Michael on Greenhill in 1842/3. In the newspaper archive, I found a report of...
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Gathering Moss
Walking around the edge of Beacon Park, I noticed a pile of moss covered stones in the undergrowth that I’d never seen before. To me, they look like part of an old building, possibly pillars? It’s a...
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Orange Peel
In the mid 1930s, the Lichfield Mercury ran a series of articles called ‘The Beauty that is England’, featuring local country houses – ‘what they are and have been’ – around Lichfield. Each article...
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A Study in Orange
The fascination for all things Fisherwick Hall continues. Recently, I discovered that the Marquess of Donegal’s Orangery once sported a rather fine portico supported by four carved pillars. Although...
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