Up Country [26/04/1991]
From the collection of
Up Country [14/03/1990]
- Newcastle International Airport
- 1990-03-14
Up Country [26/04/1991] (Up Country)
A rare chance to see long-lost botanic gardens which were host to a flesh-eating collection of plants.
The Botanic Gardens in Newcastle were established in the 1920s, and were a centre of excellence for over 90 years. Central to Newcastle University's botany program, the rare plants it contained were used for research into a variety of applications, including pharmaceuticals. In 2012 the university announced that they would no longer be funding the gardens, and heating to the glass house was turned off in 2013, killing the remaining carnivorous plants.
An edition of the Tyne Tees Television rural life programme Up Country, presented by Jessica Holm. In this edition, William Moult rides quad-buggies around a field at Holmes House Farm in Weardale, a report on carnivorous plants grown at Newcastle University and the growth in the numbers of Oyster Catchers along the River South Tyne.
The final report is on Frank Longstaffe and his 'Creature Care' animal sanctuary at Throckley on Tyneside.
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The Rural North East
Flesh-eating plants, blonde hedgehogs and other natural marvels await in the rural North East.
Charles Boden is a farmer's son who read English at Oxford University before becoming an agricultural journalist. Keen to capture what he saw as a vanishing way of life in rural England, he moved to Tyne Tees Television in 1985 to produce programmes about farming, nature and rural traditions in the region. He is best known for his film 'The Last Horseman' which followed a year in the life of the last farm in Britain to still use horse power instead of machinery.
14 videos in this collection
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Up Country [14/03/1990]
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Up Country [21/03/1990]
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Up Country [30/05/1990]
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Up Country [26/04/1991]
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Up Country [14/06/1991]
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Up Country [17/07/1992]
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Up Country [24/07/1992]
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Up Country [30/05/1993]
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Up Country [18/07/1993]
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Up Country [25/07/1993]
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The Dales Diary [29/08/2000]
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The Dales Diary [14/08/2003]
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The Dales Diary [10/08/2008]
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