newbury bypass
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Nature Notes
Camp Albion. I went recently to see Camp Albion at the Watermill Theatre in my hometown. It’s a play about the Newbury Bypass road protests of the ‘90s, that bitterly divided our town. It’s beautifully written, researched & realised by Danielle Pearson and directed equally well by Georgie Staight. The imagined story is movingly told […]
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Nature Notes
Lamplight, Wessex Heights. Ours is a literary landscape, like much of Britain. The land has a pull on us and often, the most enduring way to express that is through words, conserving or farming it; planting woods, naming fields, woods and recording it on maps. I spoke recently at The Museum of English Rural Life […]
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Nature Notes
Bonfire of the Heart. 2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Newbury Bypass protests. Yet it all still feels very raw. I am not going to use this opportunity to go over the whys and wherefores. Nor am I going to defend my point of view, my reasoning, on something that was both intensely local, but […]