Lovely evocation of a place. I was interested to learn about the Laxtons. When we moved to this house, in an area that used to be market gardens, we inherited a Lawton’s Early Crimson (identified for us by the experts at Waterperry) and it really was super early. Sadly it eventually died, old age not helped by having a tree house built in it! It’s been replaced with a Blenheim Orange, appropriate for Oxfordshire.
A very evocative post, Shelley, and beautifully written. I love this game of peeling back the ages - I’ve literally spent days playing with National Library of Scotland geo-referenced maps, seeing how an area has changed. Thank you for posting.😊
It’s the one of my favourite mind games to be somewhere and think about what it would have looked like in the past - I usually try to remove all traces of human interference but when you see an old church peeling back the layers is utterly fascinating.
Lovely evocation of a place. I was interested to learn about the Laxtons. When we moved to this house, in an area that used to be market gardens, we inherited a Lawton’s Early Crimson (identified for us by the experts at Waterperry) and it really was super early. Sadly it eventually died, old age not helped by having a tree house built in it! It’s been replaced with a Blenheim Orange, appropriate for Oxfordshire.
A very evocative post, Shelley, and beautifully written. I love this game of peeling back the ages - I’ve literally spent days playing with National Library of Scotland geo-referenced maps, seeing how an area has changed. Thank you for posting.😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved this. Fascinating.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
It’s the one of my favourite mind games to be somewhere and think about what it would have looked like in the past - I usually try to remove all traces of human interference but when you see an old church peeling back the layers is utterly fascinating.