Ventnor beach

Walking in England - Ventnor, Thursday 1999 August 26

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August 26th 1999
A leisurely start to the day again. We were dropped at the Ventnor Botanical Gardens, which were built on the site of a former TB hospital. The gardens were arranged down a hill, giving graceful terraces and views. The first section I visited was medicinal plants, but they gave no information on the uses of some quite common plants, so it wasn’t as interesting ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more