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Available
from Kemp town Bookshop,or order from:
Dave Bangs:78 Ewhurst Road,
Brighton, BN2 4AJ.
Tel: 620815.
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Like the
tropical Bahamas... Like a
belting hot desert... Lumbering Mammoth in
the distance... Funeral pyres and Sea-Eagles... slow moving flocks of
sheep
with clinking bells... Giant Bustards "like heaps of snow on legs".
All these are snapshots of Whitehawk Hill in the distant past, and
there have
been many memorable sights in more recent times: Two or three
centuries
of horse-racing... Allotment gardens for two miles The
Workhouse
high on the hilltop.
Despite all the onslaught of buildling development and the damage
done by
neglect, Whitehawk Hill still clings on to its special treasures:
Adonis Blue
butterflies like bits of the sky fallen to earth; spiders older than
the
dinosaurs; prairie and alpine flowers; a unique beetle known nowhere
else in
Britain... Will these things survive for our grandchildren? |
Have you read this book?
What do you think?
Email your review to: brightonuwg@btconnect.com,
or send it to us at
Brighton Urban Wildlife Group, c/o the Booth Museum, 194 Dyke Road,
Brighton, BN 1 5AA.
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