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Today I have been up to River Darwen Parkway with a bunch of volunteers, organised by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust. Click here to read more about their work at RDP. It's a lovely big bit of land, with good views and nice wide open spaces for getting lots of lovely fresh air. Community projects like this are only as good as the people involved in them - so support your local community projects!

I've had a really good laugh today - we were working on an area of heather, that is being encroached upon by trees. So, trees that had taken root in the heather needed to be pulled out before they affected the pH balance of the soil and cause the heather to die, and the bigger trees needed to be cut down to prevent their effects on the soil.



I was trusted with a band saw and a pruning saw and everything. And I only nearly hit a person with a tree once, so all is good.



Look at the views and space - a brilliant amenity for the people of Ewood and Fernhurst - but do they know it's there and what's going on there?



Click here to read about the site on Blackburn Council's Website

Click here to see how work done by Changing Places on the site.

Blast from the past

(image provided by Frederic N. T. Lloyd-Jones for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project: www.cottontown.org.)

If you squint - you can see our house in 1948 near the back of the tram. I'm hoping to get some census records about who lived here too. S'all good.