New on Archive.org, Phil Drabble’s book My wilderness in bloom (1986), which tells the story of how in 1963 the famous naturalist took a derelict farm near Abbot’s Bromley in mid Staffordshire, and transformed it into an oasis for nature — and it became what is now the Goat Lodge SSSI nature reserve. That was back the great days of the TV naturalists, when men such as Drabble and David Bellamy were household names.

The above is a pre-Drabble picture of Goat Lodge.

One can also get the book My wilderness in bloom very cheap, used, from Amazon UK. It seems to me that it’s a prime subject for a new documentary film, with current footage of the site interwoven with Ken Burns’ style pan-and-scan and some interview clips.