Images Dated 2nd April 2008

Kemble Station looking towards Stroud, c.1960s

A view of Kemble station in Gloucestershire, looking towards Stroud, c.1960s.
Kemble station originally opened as an exchange station in May 1845, becoming a public station in the 1870s-1880s, and closing to goods in 1967.
The limestone bridge south of the station became Grade II listed in 2015, with the station and the water tank granted listed status in 1986

© STEAM Museum of the GWR

Hampstead Road Canal Lock AA065322

HAMPSTEAD ROAD CANAL LOCK, Regents Canal, Camden Town, Greater London. A view looking north east towards Hampstead Road Lock from the towpath beside Regents Canal, showing in the foreground a towpath bridge that arches over a private canal warehouse entrance, and also a roving bridge in the background. Photographed by John Gay. Date range: 1955 - 1965

© Historic England

Brown Kiwi - adult one poking in the ground with its long beak searching for food in native Kauri forest with fallen Kauri twigs visible

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Brown Kiwi - adult one poking in the ground with its long beak searching for food in native Kauri forest with fallen Kauri twigs visible
Trounson Kauri Park Scenic Reserve, Northland, North Island, New Zealand
Apteryx australis
The kiwi is New Zealand's most ancient living bird and a biological oddity. Flightless and largely nocturnal its one-off evolutionary design holds all sorts of biological records. Kiwi build burrows and lay a huge egg that produces a mature fully-feathered independent chick. And that's where they are at their most vulnerable. Introduced predators and ferral cats or dogs kill the chicks and can erradicate a whole generation of kiwi. That's why special programs to protect the kiwi are in place. Eggs and chicks are removed from the bush to return them again to the wild when they gained enough weight to be big enough to fight off predators. The kiwi is highly threatened and also the icon of New Zealand.
Steffen & Alexandra Sailer
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