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Article: On the Rice Lane trail; Both birth and death are found in the urban farm which will be transformed into a history trail by a Lottery grant. David Charters reports.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2006
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Byline: David Charters
NEW life came damp and blind, trembling and bewildered, into the chilled air. Human eyes gazed down and smiled with relief as the gentle mother moaned slowly, knowing, at last, that her long pain was over.
It had been a difficult labour.
But seconds later, two lambs were nuzzling into her and like all good mothers, she succumbed to their needs at once.
Everyone there was pleased. Once this had been a place of death, where the bodies of paupers were tipped into holes. They are still there under the grass and mud.
But now this is a place of birth as well. For the Rice Lane City Farm in Walton, Liverpool, ...