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Over the course of more than 15 years, Ken Jackson, the Manager from 1993-2007, maintained a photographic record of the reserve as it developed and of some of the people involved in its management, research and enjoyment.

Some of these images have been re-photographed with a digital camera and appear below. This cheap and cheerful digitisation process has resulted in some loss of quality.

If you have any photos of the reserve (and/or the Lings Lane area) that you think would enhance these pages, please let me know.

There are more photos and memorabilia in Scrapbook Volume Two

Keyworth Show 2000 — L to R: Wally Butler, Ken Jackson and Gordon Clarke at the Keyworth Show about 2000.

Haymaking November 1991 — "Haymaking" November 1991. Chair Cllr Linda Abbey 2nd from right.

View of the meadow in May 1994 — May 1994.

View of the meadow in Oct 1994 — October 1994.

Fairham Brook 1995. Wally Butler in red sweater.

View of many schoolchildren in the meadow — Willowbrook School visit; 1995.

some classmates sitting in the meadow by the brook — Willowbrook School classmates; 1995.

Ken Jackson looking proudly on at his hedge-laying — Replanting work on old hedge. Ken Jackson; 1996/97.

Linda Abbey, Ken Jackson holding a framed collage of meadow photos with Peter Meade — Presentation of framed meadow photographs to the Centenary Lounge 1996. L-R Cllr Linda Abbey, Manager Ken Jackson and Peter Meade.

Ken Jackson burning hay; 1997 — Burning the summer hay; 1997.

Dr Chris Terrel-Nield of Nottingham-Trent Uni, kick sampling and identifying freshwater invertebrates from the brook; 1997.

Dr Chris Terrel-Nield of Nottingham-Trent Uni photographing freshwater invertebrates in a sampling dish

Group of teachers and children having lunch at the entrance gate — Keyworth Junior School Visit; 1999.

Three children doing nature studies — Keyworth Junior School Visit; 1999.

Linda Abbey and Wally Butler planting a hawthorn hedge — Planting Hawthorn Hedge 1999/2000; Linda Abbey and Wally Butler.