Purbeck’s champion trees

The Isle of Purbeck is home to the UK’s largest known black poplar and white willow trees. The management of these trees is still in its infancy, but we need to be identifying the veteran trees of today. It is sometimes said that a man of taste will find beauty in a tree that others condemn Read More…

Graham Dee: lost Mod icon

He could be the king of British Northern Soul, a lost Mod icon, but Graham Dee’s air of detached modesty says more about him than either soubriquet. He’s just happy to finally see some of his work see the light of day when Acid Jazz release The Graham Dee Connection: The 60s Collection, rounding up Read More…

They loved it, yeah, yeah, yeah

Of all the places that ‘had their moments’ according to the lyric of John Lennon’s elegiac song In My Life, 46 years since its release, Bournemouth fits the sentiment as well as any that figure in the history of The Beatles. Still revered as one of the greatest – and most commercially successful – groups Read More…