Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• HILLS MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS
• The Four Faces of Quinag
• Bala and the Berwyns
• Green Beacons Wild and Free
• Around Rhayader
• A Hidden Valley
• Monmouthshire
• Bridleway through the Weald
• BIRDS
• Where Treecreepers Roost
• Vibrant Vocalists
• The Wintering Flocks
• At the Bird Table
• The Attractions of a Roosting Wood
• Roosting Magpies
• How Birds Deter their Rivals
• The Advantages or not being a Gardener
• The Usurpers
• Another Side of the Wye Valley
• BUTTERFLIES
• The Summer of the Painted Lady
• Aggression amongst Fritillaries
• Eighty Years of Butterflies
• FARMING
• New Pattern of Sussex Sheep-farming
• Farming on the Quantock Hills
• The Dwindling Marlponds
• Modern Methods on an Ancient Moor
• Farm Land lost through River Erosion
• CRAFT AND RURAL WAYS
• Changing Fashions in Weather Vanes
• Last in a line of Country Craftsmen
• Cider in a Western County
• Threatened Small holders of the Forest of Dean
• The Problem of the Churchyard
• Precarious Livelihood
• Saving a Welsh River's Salmon
• The Ferreting Party
• Pigeon-shooting Technique
• The Dying Art of Snaring
• Effective Mole-trapping
• A Day's Shooting
• TREES
• A Tree with a Chequered Career
• A Prehistoric Lime
• Landscaping the Hills
• Trees at Christ's Hospital
• New Trees for Chanctonbury
• RIVERS COASTS AND CANALS
• Death Knell of an Historic Ferry
• A River of Chalk and Heath
• Coastal Waterfalls of the West
• Gower's Glory
• Around the Teifi Esturay
• The Crumbling White Cliffs
• A Coast of Character
• A Canal with a Future
• England's Longest Tub Boat Canal
• Watchful Eyes on the Water's Edge
• VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
• The Vernacular Houses of Sussex
• Welsh Versatility in Stone
• Ingenuity of the Dartmoor Builders
• Tranquil Villages of the Sussex Downs
• Building Barns from the Sea-shore Boulders
• Black and White along the Border
• The Versatility of a Sussex Stone
• Sussex Marble and its varied uses
• ANIMALS
• The Mystery of the Yellow-necked Mouse
• Hope for the Harvest Mouse
• Watching Foxes
• The Squirrel Trapper
• The Badgers of Pilfolds Platt
• Border Dingle
• Killers in Waiting
• The Friendly Welsh Spaniel
• MISCELLANEOUS
• No Mains' Supplies
• More Rally Trouble
• A January Surprise
• The Parish Roads
• Cack'anders and Cock inders
• The Otter of Folly Lake
• Monmouth in Wartime - stray collections
• On being Rehabilitiated
• A Poacher caught