Floating Pennywort and taking care of our Stort
By Andy Gee On 20 July 2019 I was awarded British Canoeing’s (BC) Community Champion Award on the back of our litter picks. After BC’s challenge in July 2019 Stuart & I decided to go after removing Floating Pennywort (FPW) from the River Stort. Peter & Helen Nash (Whoosh Principals) kindly sponsored the Project with…
The Machine
by Brian Field The machine is coming! We will feel the love when we meet with candles in hand but the bulldozers are coming to bury our feelings and soon our cries will go silent. Our hearts and the beauty have little value to the economic rewards from the development. This machine has rode over…
Harlow’s Rich Past
by Neil Warner-Baker The proposed route for The Stort Crossing is steeped in archeology and history. Here follows a brief snap shot. The Stort Valley was formed during the Glacial Maximum and The Stort is where the Ice Age stopped. Like a tide, huge deposits of clay silt, chalk and other aggregates were deposited on…
Friends of Latton Island 