Where do you go when you need a lump of peat?  I’ve been asked to talk about the history of Leighton Moss next Tuesday … and to bring along some props. When I thought about it, a peat turf seemed an obvious visual aid: it’s …

One of the very first things that anyone told me about Leighton Moss was that it used to be arable farmland, that a steam pump had drained it in the 19th Century, AND that the only surviving part of that pump and engine-room complex was the chimney …