Ratty stays on Lock's Hill with his Friends - for now.

Ratty describes the the destruction of his ‘world’ by a housing development- here at Lock’s Hill, but it could be anywhere.
This site - a green field and very steep (1in 3 gradient) required the removal of the hillside and promises only 4 affordable homes out of 32 houses.
Loosely based on Chapter IX - Wayfarers All - of ‘The Wind in the Willows’ by Kenneth Grahame, the video portrays the benefits and preciousness of ‘Home’.
I would like to add my voice to the plight of wildlife, during building developments in the countryside. I ask developers to minimise their impact on the natural world, and maintain green corridors and passages for wildlife through their developments.
Wildlife is good for us all and lifts our spirits
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Ratty and his friends are superimposed on photos of the lovely Lock’s Hill that is, sadly, now a quarry.
The editing software comes as standard with PCs, laptops and tablets and there are apps to do the same. This is great fun to do, and the learning process and ‘wow’ moments never stop - here it was the drone footage, (swallow's eye-view) kindly supplied by Paul Beech.
A huge thank you to Paul Beech for letting me use his aerial videos and stills of Lock’s Hill.
The other photos and videos were mostly taken by me, with 5 of the animals obtained from creativecommons.org:
‘A couple of barn swallows’ by Arend Vermazeren; ‘barn swallow touch down’ by Katsura Miyamoto, Chaffinch and Gold Crest, public domain and bat outlines from BioDivLibrary.
The ‘actor’: Ratty (also doubling as the Seafaring rat), Badger-, Mole and Toad - were created for a promotion by Typhoo Tea Ltd in the mid 1990s, and I am grateful to be allowed to use him. The figures have C.U.K.T.V embossed on the back but I have been unable to locate this company.
The actor, Otter, lives in Buckfastleigh but Otters truly walked through my garden, behind ‘the old Mill House’, on 2 occasions coming from the Lock’s Hill direction. My wildlife cameras give me much joy.
The Greater and Lesser Horseshoe bat have used my very ancient stone building for many years, to forage and to roost between winter and summer roosts. Other bats, including Long-Eared, also fly in and out.
Thanks to Google Earth for making the maps available

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This is such a wonderful illustration of what has happened at Lock's Hill. The water in the pool is sparkling no more and when we recently went there with the dogs, we saw it had become muddy which it never was before. This development should never have been allowed and it has already ruined the area which is so sad.