Nature DayTwo

Another expert on The Carrs, where he played as a child. Donald Broughton, now of the Red Cross. He also remembers climbing the turret of St Olaf's and looking out over its roof to the river below. Who would have thought that the destruction of that lovely building was so recent?

Ian White and Prof. Handley on the lower bridge. (Ian is not threatening anybody...yet.)

Wild garlic. We came, we saw, we tasted.

Professor John Handley took a lucky group of people around the Carrs. His talk highlighted what is exceptional about this place, as well as changes in the greater world that impact here.

The sharp observer will notice immediately that this mud is not Carrs mud, but belongs to Styal Country Park. I include this photo, and the one below, not for what they depict, but for what they are called. Prof Handley tells us that the scientific name for this type of fen is an 'alder carr'.

The 'alder carr', rare marshland and, among other things, excellent flood barriers. They are also easy to create.