PLUMS - Pershore is famous for its plums.........

SOME INTERESTING QUESTIONS, INFORMATION, IMAGES AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION TO GIVE YOU SOME HELP AND GET YOU ON YOUR WAY WHEN YOU EXPLORE  PERSHORE AND THE VALE OF EVESHAM.

• What is a plum? This is a serious question!
• What is the connection between hedgerows and stock proof fences?
• They say the Romans brought plums to these islands but Maiden Castle in Dorset was an Iron Age Fort!
• There are medieval recipes for plums in wine so Arthur probably did eat plums but what sort of plums would he recognise today?
• Damson juice can be used to dye cotton wool and leather. It was used it to dye gloves on Ludlow. Do you think they do this in Pershore?
• Roast pork with beans cooked with plums is Flemish fare at its best - What did Henry V111 do about this?
• What is so special about the Fotheringham Plum?
• What is the connection between the Abbot of Westminster and the Pershore Yellow Plum?
• Many plums send up suckers from their roots, why were some of these transported to Gig Bridge Lane in Pershore?
• The railway, sugar and tin were all needed, why?
• Baskets or boxes?
• Why did they set up The Vale Landscape Heritage Trust?