This went live yesterday: ‘Excremental Flows: #Manchester Corporation’s ‘Dung Hill Scheme’ and the Rampton Manor Estate, #Nottinghamshire, 1892’. As a colleague reported today after reading it, they appreciated the ‘Easter eggs’ I had hidden (not subtly) in the text. #Euphemisms Thanks to the journal #Environment & #History for seeing it through to publication. #EnvHist
Bit of an ad:
If you're in North Nottinghamshire and interested in foraging and wild crafts, an old colleague of mine is running a workshop. She is one of the best!
Https://wildfoodworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk
#nottinghamshire #foraging #crafts
A few photos from our trip out yesterday. Went on a #bellringing outing on the #Leicestershire / #Nottinghamshire border. Lovely weather all day, good pub lunch, and a chance to ring at the most northerly tower in Leicestershire.
https://www.europesays.com/uk/2178/ Fearless Hameed talks of desire for Trent Bridge fortress #bridge #Cricket #Headlines #News #Nottingham #Nottinghamshire #Outlaws #TopStories #Trent #trentbridge #WestBridgford
#UK: New #LibraryOfThings offers help in #ToughTimes'
Ben Mellor, 8 March 2025
"A new Library of Things will 'reduce waste' and help people struggling for money, organisers say.
"It will operate from #BeestonLibrary in #Nottinghamshire and open in the coming weeks, although an exact date has not yet been set.
"The service will allow people to borrow #HouseholdItems, rather than books, such as carpet cleaners, sewing machines, and children's party sets.
"Fiona Hartley, an organiser, said: 'These are typically things that might be a bit more expensive, and then you only use them once or twice, and then they sit in your cupboard unused.'
"She said times were tough at the moment and "this is just something that helps people save a bit of money and a bit of space in their homes".
"The project has received funding from the Beeston Civic Society and Broxtowe Borough Council to help with the purchase of items - totalling £1,500.
"This money will be spent on purchasing supplies and items to stock the library.
"Ms Hartley said there was a 'growing movement' behind Libraries of Things nationwide. Similar projects have been set up across the wider #EastMidlands.
"Peter Cribb, the district manager at Inspire, which runs Beeston Library, said he was 'excited at the potential'.
"'It's not something we've done before, you know we do loan out non-book items, but they're on a one-off basis,' he said.
"When the service starts, people will use an app to book an item they wish to use. Library staff will then retrieve the item.
"The maintenance of the items and the app will be operated and paid for by the volunteer groups, Mr Cribb said, and the library's role is to act as storage.
"Karrie Stainer is the chairwoman of the volunteers and said she first had the idea for the Library of Things over one year ago.
"However, she struggled to secure funding for the project until recently.
"'The underlying motivation really comes from #environmental issues, not being wasteful of stuff, not throwing stuff away,' she said."
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4pyl70yvo
#LibrariesRule #Libraries #LibrariesOfThings #SharingEconomy #SolarPunkSunday #BorrowDontBuy #Degrowth #CircularEconomy
"Report any sightings of Nottingham Spring Crocus to the Nottinghamshire Biological and Geological Records Centre. Get involved in volunteer opportunities to monitor and manage existing sites and help to create new sites." https://nottsbag.org.uk/lbap/lbap-species-action-plans/nottsspringcrocus/ #BioDiversity #Crocus #Flowers #UK #Nottinghamshire #SolarPunkSunday 
#Geograph Picture of the Day from #Nottinghamshire, 2010
#M1 #sliproad #J27 #cones #roadworks #photography #POTD geograph.org.uk/p/1830928 Free to share – please credit JThomas/Geograph
Linguine pescatore at Venezia, Saxondale, #Rushcliffe, #Nottinghamshire. I can highly recommend this restaurant for delicious Italian food.
An Overlooked Wartime Relic of Sherwood Forest
A pit stop at the Sherwood Forest visitor centre for some exercise. Instead of yet another photograph of the Major Oak – that 1,000-year-old tree allegedly used by Robin Hood, of which the internet is already saturated – I have chosen something more original: a pair of ditches.
These ditches, grandly named ‘Military Bunker Pits’ by archaeologists, are believed t ...
On the 28th November in 1290 in the Nottinghamshire village of Harby, Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I died.
It is thought that Eleanor had not properly recovered from catching malaria a few years earlier, and it was on her journey to pray at the Shrine of St Hugh in Lincoln Cathedral that she became ill.
On the 13th November, once parliament had concluded at King’s Clipstone, the royal party began their journey into Lincolnshire, but Eleanor's health deteriorated so they stopped at Harby, the home of Richard de Weston, in the hope that she regained her strength.
The manor house in which Queen Eleanor died is long gone, but you can walk to the site on which it stood, also to be seen are the remains of the moat that once surrounded it.
