Seven walkers came on John’s walk
around the Langford Lowfields at Collingham. This is an area where the RSPB and
Tarmac are working in partnership to transform the sand and gravel quarry into a
nature reserve. It is still a work in progress but it has already attracted a
large amount of wildlife
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| Langford Lowfields |
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| Trying to spot the widlife - and the missing rambler |
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Cromwell Lock and Weir on the Trent - the
tidal
limit of the river.
On 28 September 1975, during an eighty-mile, night navigation exercise in
extreme weather conditions, ten members of the 131 Parachute Squadron, Royal
Engineers were killed after a power failure caused the navigation lights on the
weir to go out and their boat went over the crest.
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| I counted them all out ... |
