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Twenty of the top tourist attractions in Cheshire work together to help visitors enjoy the best that the County can offer, Anderton Boat Lift, Arley Hall and Gardens, Beeston Castle, Blakemere Shopping Experience, Boat Museum, Bridgemere Garden World, Catalyst, Cheshire Oaks, Chester Zoo, Go Ape!, Gulliver's World, Hack Green Secret Bunker, Jodrell Bank, Ness Botanic Gardens, Norton Priory Museum and Gardens, Sunlight Vision Museum, Port Sunlight, Redhouse Farm Shop, Salt Museum, Stapeley Water Gardens, Tatton Park |
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Early Morning Moments at Tatton Park
photo by Clem West How about this for a view from your office window? This is just one of 1,000 acres of 'office space' for Clem West, who took this photograph, and the other Park Rangers at Tatton Park. She is one of an eight strong Ranger team responsible for maintaining the parkland of this historic estate. It is a multi-skilled job, requiring expertise in park and woodland management, in managing a deer herd and other animal stock and also in maintaining the site as a safe place of recreation for the general public. The rangers have an extensive love and knowledge of the natural environment, which helps them to interpret the site to the public through the Parkland's education programme. They are also all keen photographers and it is safe to say there can be a fair amount of competition between them in catching that perfect shot! In the spare moments at either ends of the working day, the half-light of sunrise and sunset often creates ideal conditions for an atmospheric photograph. Clem took these images about 7am on her early morning commute into the Parkland. Clem commented "it was a perfect Tatton morning, everything was heightened and intensified by the low mist and the glow from the slowly rising sun". Like many of the rangers, Clem has spent her working career in the outdoors. She started as a conservation volunteer whilst still at school and followed this with a year on the National Trust Trainee Warden Scheme. Clem then spent four years in Oklahoma in the volunteer Forest Service. She has been at Tatton full time since 2004 and is the only woman in the Ranger Team. Her speciality is woodland management and she is always the first to volunteer to 'rope up', chainsaw in hand and tend to branches some forty feet up. Clem commented "you feel really privileged to see the Parkland from a perspective that very few people have had the chance to experience. Every day is different here, the jobs change with each season and the deer make Tatton incredibly special". The Parkland is open daily during High Season Saturday March 15th to Sunday 28th September 10am-7pm (6pm). For details of the Education Programme visit www.tattonpark.org.uk or call 01625 374428. |
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