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Wild about rewilding

Wild about rewilding

Tuesday 6 June 2023

A cheery offering from photographer Gordon Ridgewell: “I captured these poppies this morning. Audley End estate has rewilded a small field just off Chestnut Avenue – so-called as it’s really a country road lined on both sides with chestnut trees.” Read more >

A time to remember…

A time to remember…

Wednesday 10 November 2021

With Remembrance Day tomorrow (Thursday, November 11), here are two highly appropriate images from photographer Gordon Ridgewell. “These community poppies at Littlebury in 2018 made an impressive display,” said Gordon. The other picture comes from the Essex-Cambridgeshire border. “I recently visited Hadstock church for IWM Memorials. I have been contributing to the site for a […] Read more >

Our Lovely Essex: it’s time to draw the feature to a close and remember those we have lost to the pandemic

Our Lovely Essex: it’s time to draw the feature to a close and remember those we have lost to the pandemic

Thursday 2 July 2020

Back in April, in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, we asked the people of our extraordinary county to send us images and thoughts of what made Essex so special to them. The idea was to dream and share memories of happier times that we knew would ultimately return once that troubled period came to an […] Read more >

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