Hitchin Wildlife

  Hitchin Cemetery Apr-May 2025 The fresh green leaves of the Lime trees in the cemetery entrance look stunning in early April, I hope the cemetery designer, George Beaver, would have been pleased, and should you wish to pay your respects, you can see his memorial in the North-eastern corner of the cemetery close to the big Yew.  These blog posts usually contain mostly natural history notes, but I'll start with a bit of conventional history about the Beavers...    The Beaver memorial is one of those which leads me to try and imagine what the lives might have been like for these Victorians, the details on the stone records: AMY, died June 1867 aged 84 GEORGE (senior) died May 1875 aged 90 SAMUEL their fourth son who died at Monte Video in South America in June 1877 aged 65  GEORGE their second son who died May 1896  aged 86 years A little rummaging on the internet tells me that George senior was a basket maker, and I bet Amy was too and they owned osier beds...