CRESSINGTON PARK and GRASSENDALE PARK Running inland from the North Shore of the River Mersey lie private parks – Regency, Victorian and Edwardian houses within a setting of forest trees, isolated from the rows of by-law properties by their own park gates – Grassendale and Cressington are two of these parks which extend into...
Climate change is on the conservation agenda again and so I thought I would share with you some course-notes from the University of Exeter on the principles of it. You’ve probably heard of the greenhouse effect. It’s fundamental to understanding what keeps our planet warm and why our climate changes over time. The greenhouse, like...
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SPRINGFIELD PARK, KNOTTY ASH, LIVERPPOOL Springfield Park. 22 acres (8.9ha) is located in the suburb of Knotty Ash, and lies to the north of Prescot Road. Much of the park is now occupied by the newly rebuilt Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, which opened in October 2015. The park has a direct track that links...
Tuesday 28th June 2016. Led by James Hill, University of Liverpool. What are they? How do I identify them? Why should I care? My first encounter with lichens was on old walls and gravestones in a local church yard. These unusual organisms consist of a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga, with...