Special Offer Members Only
ESSEX PARKS
by
MARK HANSON
Is now offered to our members at the
greatly reduced price of £6 plus £2.50 p&p.
Eight pages of full colour plates.
192 pages and numerous black and white illustrations, maps and tables.
The book details the history and wildlife of Essex parks with chapters on the history of
parks in Essex, buildings and other structures in parks, the great Oaks, grazing
animals, birds, fungi, beetles, flies, spiders, mosses, lichens and many other groups.
There are lists of landscapers and the cultivated trees, shrubs and plants found in Essex
parks. Includes Hylands, Bedfords, Dagnam, South Weald and many others.
Please send your cheques made out to The Essex Field Club to
Del Smith at 12, Tring Gdns, Harold Hill, Romford, Essex RM3 9EP
Foulness Fungal Foray, 30th October 2005______________________
Barbara Chapman 20 Lindon Road, Runwell, Wickford, Essex SSH 7LR
In our programme of forays this year, the Fungus Group has arranged a visit to Foulness
Island. Any records from there are of great interest, as the site is, of course, usually
inaccessible. Finds can never be guaranteed, we often go out in hope rather than certainty,
but, as last year's visit to Davy Down proved, more pairs of eyes looking can result in
more specimens found.
We will be meeting our guide at 1 lam at the Foulness Heritage Museum. This Museum
is open to the public on the first Sunday of the month from April until October, 12-4pm.
There is car parking space. I am required to provide a list of those persons going on the
foray, and their car registration numbers, which must be submitted in advance. If you
would like to come, please contact me, either by phone on 01268 765597 or by email to
chapmans(aialrosa,fsnet,co.uk. The list must close by 1st October. If you can car share,
then tell me the car no. and the names of all the occupants. In case of late changes,
please could you give me your contact details, either phone or email. Many thanks.
I know October seems a long way off, but it gives you plenty of time to think about it.
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Essex Field Club Newsletter No. 47, May 2005