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Growing Wheat by Tony

Reflections by Tony Via Flickr: Roodee mere in Royden Park. In the 1820s the land on which the park now sits was heath and woodland. During the 1860s a house called Hillbark was built on the estate and the area was planted and landscaped

Oak in a field in Raby by Tony Via Flickr: The prehistoric Indo-European tribes worshiped the oak and connected it with a thunder or lightning god, and this tradition descended to many classical cultures.

Green man in Raby by Tony Via Flickr: The Green Man is a legendary being primarily interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of new growth that occurs every spring. The Green Man is most commonly depicted in a sculpture, or other representation of a face which is made of, or completely surrounded by, leaves.

Hawthorn, a long lived tree by Tony Via Flickr: The superstitious dread of harming hawthorn trees prevalent in the British Isles may also be connected to an old belief that hawthorns, and more especially 'lone thorns' (self-seeded specimens standing in isolation from other trees) originate from lightning or thunderbolts and give protection from lightning strikes.

Thurstaston, Thor’s Chair by Tony Via Flickr: Thurstaston means "village of a man called Thorsteinn. Historically and popularly, the name was wrongly thought to refer to "Thor's Stone", a sandstone outcrop on Thurstaston Common

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries! by Tony