A cool but bright day on Sunday for a walk across the field to Bourn Golf Club and then back through the Kingston Embankment Reserve. The 'yellow brick road' comes to mind - arid cracked clay and weed-killed barley doesn't have the same ring.
The Kingston Reserve lies on part of the Bedford to Cambridge railway line closed in the late 1960s. It is the site of the old railway bridge removed in the mid-1970s. At this stage I was running the first YOC (junior RSPB) group and we helped with the conservation work there. We cut lots of steps down to the Bourn Brook and built dipping platforms etc but all these have grown over now; however, the old railway hut looks just about the same as it did 50 years ago!!. (phone images)
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