Our Countryside
The Museum of East Anglian Life is where town and country meet. Set within 75 acres of beautiful Suffolk landscape, only 2 minutes from Stowmarket Town Centre the museum encapsulates a surprising variety of East Anglian Landscapes.
The heavy chalky boulder clay of the main museum site was difficult to cultivate until the advent of the iron plough and the Agricultural Revolution of the eighteenth century. This area then traditionally supported mixed farms of dairy, livestock and arable.
The museum celebrates this history in its displays and collections but it also protects the sensitive and ecologically-diverse land it has inherited.
March 25th, 2010
“The first day of spring is one thing; the first spring day is another”
As the saying goes “When March comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb” Well let’s hope so as the first 24 hours of this month saw a very wet lion sweep over our region, the entire nature walk was submerged by the swollen river leaving a trail of wash up litter and debris.
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February 18th, 2010
Well love is in the air, I’m not just talking about the card shops! The 14th has always marked the time of year when our birds and animals start to pair up. The Blackbirds are much louder, singing their sweet music to each other. The woodpeckers are on percussion with their rhythmic taps, and the rooks are starting to hold their noisy parliaments in the tree tops.
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January 26th, 2010
“The birds are gone, the ground is white. The winds are wild, they chill and bite
The ground is thick with slush and sleet, and I barely feel my frozen feet”
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