Severn Beach Nature Reserve - Sign

Severn Beach Nature Reserve - Sign

Sadly someone decided it would be humorous to cover the nature reserve information sign at Severn Beach with mud a couple of weeks ago.

Today, I cleaned it off. But at least vistors and locals can view it again.

Before and after pictures below.

Nature Reserve Sign at Severn Beach

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Severn Beach Memory from the 1950's

When I was a
young child I lived with my family in a chalet which was little more than a
wooden hut situated on a farm in Severn Beach. This would have been around
1950 / 1953 when I was between 2 and 5 years old, I cannot remember the exact
location but it was not far away from the village, somewhere down a
lane

There were
many families living this way in the area, I think they were people that had
become homeless at the end of the war and were waiting for the new council
housing estates to be built around Bristol.  Some people lived in converted
single Decker buses converted into caravan type homes.  Although I was very
young I can still remember it and my family and a number of the others that
lived this way moved into the new estate at Lawrence Weston around 1953, these
houses seemed like palaces to us with electric light, water on tap, indoor
bathrooms and toilets.

Notes by:  Anon

Gorse Cover Road - UK's 7th Busiest eBay Street

UK's busiest eBay street
March 23, 2007
Web User

Residents of a village street in Norfolk trade more items on auction website eBay than any other in the UK, research has revealed.

Luscombe Way in Rackheath, Norfolk, which has just 48 homes, has topped a league table of “eBay streets” across the country.

According to eBay, two-thirds of the 48 homes buy and sell online, totting up 2,000 transactions on eBay in the past year.

The street's eBayers have an average feedback score of 92, and, in the last year each household has sold an average of 58 items and has bought 33 bargains each.

eBay spokesman Richard Kanareck said: “Savvy Brits now buy and sell more on eBay that any other nationality, creating a new wave of cottage industries across the country. Although the pavements may be quiet, the go-getter residents of Luscombe Way are now reaching thousands of shoppers every day from their living rooms, bedrooms and home offices.”

The ten busiest eBay streets in the UK are:

Luscombe Way, Rackheath, Norfolk
Kinlet Road, Wigan
Camford Close, Hampshire
Victoria Park, Leyland, Lancashire
Willow Bank drive, Pontefract, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Gurnard Close, Coppice Farm, Willenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Gorse Cover Road, Severn Beach, Bristol
Old Brompton Road, London
Bridgend Park, Bathgate, West Lothian
Middle Street Trallwn, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff

Saltmarsh Plants at Severn Beach

Saltmarsh Plants at Severn Beach

A guide to common plants found a Severn Beach

Saltmarsh plant zonation and the Plants found within each zone.

Zone	Mud Flats	Low Marsh	Middle & Upper Marsh	Above High Water
Plants found
	Common eelgrass	Saltmarsh grass	Sea rush	Parsley dropwort
	Narrow-leaved eelgrass	Sea plantain	Mud rush	Sea couch grass
	Dwarf eelgrass	Sea arrow grass	Red fescue	Creeping bent grass
	Gut-weed	Sea aster	Grass-leaved orache	Sea club-rush
	Channel wrack	Sea milkwork	Hastate orache	Common reed
	Glasswort	Common scurvy grass	Sea purslane	Shrubby sea blite
	Cord grass	Annual sea blite	Sea pink or thrift	Sea beet
	Red alga	English scurvy grass	Lax-flowered sea-lavender	Golden samphire
	Bladder wrack	Lesser sea spurrey	Common sea-lavender	Marsh mallow
	Cord grass	Greater sea spurrey	Perennial glasswort	Sea wormwood