Mo Farquharson is a sculptor of considerable ability who sadly died last year aged only sixty-four. The Miners commemorates seventy-three colliers who died in the Udston Colliery explosion in 1887.
Category: Sculpture
Taranto
Chiswick House
Saint Leodegar
Big Cheese
I’m sorry, I’ll write that again – big trees. This is a Maclura Pomifera named after William Maclure, an American geologist born in Scotland. The Pomifera means fruit-bearing. It should be named after William Dunbar, another Scotsman, who identified it in 1804 when he was travelling from the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.
The Church of Our Lady, Merevale, et al
This church is now known as St Mary’s but I have chosen to retain its original nomenclature before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Now it is a parish church but it dates from the 13th century and Pevsner thinks it was a capella ante portas of Merevale Abbey, a Cistercian house founded in 1148 by… Continue reading The Church of Our Lady, Merevale, et al