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Friends of Boggart Hole Clough Generating planetary health. Friends of Boggart Hole Clough, replacing the name Boggart Hole Clough Community Action Trust, was founded in 2000.

We are a group of people committed to protecting Boggart Hole Clough by restoring its biodiversity health / conservation value. The Clough (its local abbreviation) is located in north Manchester, England. Encompassing 190 acres, the Clough contains grassland, two lakes & steep sided valleys covered with irreplaceable Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland, the richest wildlife habitat in Britain. The Clough became a Municipal Park in 1894 and a Local Nature Reserve in 2008. We work in partnership with, among others, Manchester City Council, the landowner of the Clough. There is always at least one Friend of Boggart Hole Clough ready to welcome new Friends every Saturday 10am outside the Lakeside Cafe. These meetings often lead to walks around the Clough.

33 photos from 2009 > in chronological order
06/10/2026

33 photos from 2009 > in chronological order

Boggart Reports > a selection >England > https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/england-fobh...
13/09/2026

Boggart Reports > a selection >

England >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/england-fobhc-25.9.2016-12.9.2026.pdf

Whale-jaw posts >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/10.1-whale-jaw-posts-fobhc-1.5.2019-10.9.2026.pdf

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell” >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/15.1-no-tree-can-grow-to-heaven-unless.pdf

International Anti-War Strike >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/23.2-international-anti-war-strike-fobhc-30.8.2022-7.9.2026.pdf

Making the future good >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/1.1-making-the-future-good-fobhc-1.1.2023.pdf

Boggart Reports > FoBHC Facebook public community page posts on our website > 2nd edition 4.9.2026 of 10.6.2022 report >...
04/09/2026

Boggart Reports > FoBHC Facebook public community page posts on our website > 2nd edition 4.9.2026 of 10.6.2022 report > Alder Leaf Beetles >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/18.1-alder-leaf-beetles-fobhc-10.6.2022-4.9.2026.pdf

Two photos > 13.2.2005 photo taken at Platt Fields Park Lakeside > 15.3.2025 photo taken at Boggart Hole Clough Lakeside...
17/08/2026

Two photos > 13.2.2005 photo taken at Platt Fields Park Lakeside > 15.3.2025 photo taken at Boggart Hole Clough Lakeside > belatedly, weeks after installation of the ‘Duck Feeder’ dispenser contraption selling bird food, Manchester City Council removed signage requesting people not to feed birds at Boggart Lakeside > no explanation given by Manchester City Council for this harmful, nonsensical U-turn >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bhccat-do-not-feed-the-birds-signage-around-the-lakeside-10-8-2012.pdf >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fobhc_17-10-2018_revivifying_the_lake.pdf

Friends of Boggart Hole Clough Nature Conservationists creating 2nd Meadow-Woodland-Edge Seasonal Pond > January 2005 > ...
16/08/2026

Friends of Boggart Hole Clough Nature Conservationists creating 2nd Meadow-Woodland-Edge Seasonal Pond > January 2005 > 5 photos > Minutes, item 5.2 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bhccat-minutes-16205-executive-committee-open-meeting.pdf >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bhccat-2nd-seasonal-pond-meadow-woodland-edge-23105.pdf

Hough Hall, Moston > photo taken yesterday 12.8.2026 > North Manchester’s oldest building > 17th century > Grade II list...
13/08/2026

Hough Hall, Moston > photo taken yesterday 12.8.2026 > North Manchester’s oldest building > 17th century > Grade II listed >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/danger-demolition-work-in-progress-fobhc-29.5.2024-20.62024-1.pdf > Repurposing proposal 2021 > North Manchester Hough Hall Free Public Library Museum Cultural Heritage Centre > Community proposal dismissed ignored by government, local & national, Manchester City Council & English Heritage Historic England > The 6,000 people who supported a campaign to save this building want their history, cultural heritage, to be acknowledged, appreciated, celebrated, conserved, restored >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/fobhc_2.7.2021-21.11.2021_hough_hall_moston_revolutionizing_our_history.pdf

17 more Boggart Hole Clough photos from 2004
30/07/2026

17 more Boggart Hole Clough photos from 2004

Boggart Reports > so far this year, 2 reports >1. Boggartian > 15.3.2026 > https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-co...
10/07/2026

Boggart Reports > so far this year, 2 reports >

1. Boggartian > 15.3.2026 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/boggartian-fobhc-15.3.2026-19.4.2026-1.pdf

2. Bogfrog leaps free > 21.6.2026 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/bogfrog-leaps-free-fobhc-21.6.2026-24.7.2026.pdf

Bogfrog leaps free   Hlyp (Old English) = leap >  “.. there are no leaps in nature, precisely because nature is composed...
21/06/2026

Bogfrog leaps free

Hlyp (Old English) = leap > “.. there are no leaps in nature, precisely because nature is composed entirely of leaps ..” > ‘Dialectics of Nature’ by Frederick Engels (1820-95), published posthumously 1925 > Wellred 2012 paperback edition, page 275 > leap > Engels, Marx’s friend & collaborator, lived in Manchester 1842-44 & 1850-70 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/frederick-engels-welcome-back-to-manchester-fobhc-6.9.2017-22.7.2026.pdf

Salto (Spanish) = leap > “Less than six months after the kidnapping and overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro .. the Trump administration is openly preparing a military operation against Cuba. The threats revive the legacy of US-backed coups and fascist military dictatorships that drenched Latin America in blood throughout the 20th century, and represent a drive to reimpose colonial domination over the island. Workers .. must urgently mobilize in opposition to this ongoing imperialist aggression and the plans for war .. any effective opposition to imperialism requires a balance sheet of the historical experience with Castroism ..” > Andrea Lobo, 2.6.2026, World Socialist Web Site > https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/agqn-j03.html

Jonbesh (Persian) = leap > “In the present work dialectics is conceived as the science of the most general laws of all motion ..” > Engels, ibid, p.271 > leap > Working Class Movement Library, founded 1950s, Salford > https://wcml.org.uk

Frogs move by jumping, leaping > “quick-jumping masters of disguise” > https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/reptiles-and-amphibians/common-frog/

Pryzhok (Russian) = leap > “Classical political economy, the social science of the bourgeoisie, in the main examines only social effects of human actions in the fields of production & exchange that are actually intended. This fully corresponds to the social organisation of which it is the theoretical expression. As individual capitalists are engaged in production and exchange for the sake of the immediate profit, only the nearest, most immediate results must first be taken into account .. he does not concern himself with what afterwards becomes of the commodity and its purchasers. The same thing applies to the natural effects of the same actions. What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and obtained from the ashes sufficient fertiliser for one generation of very highly profitable coffee trees – what cared they that the heavy tropical rainfall afterwards washed away the unprotected upper stratum of the soil, leaving behind only bare rock! In relation to nature, as to society, the present mode of production is predominantly concerned only about the immediate, the most tangible result ..” > Engels, ibid, p.185 > leap > Marx & Engels studied together at Chetham’s Library, Britain’s oldest surviving Free Public Library founded 1653, Manchester > https://library.chethams.com/collections/101-treasures-of-chethams/karl-marxs-desk/

Boggart Hole Clough temperate rainforest > rare remnant of Earth’s Ancient Natural Woodland covering > leap > All for Each & Each for All > Peaceful Revolutionary Therianthropic Boggart Species > Yarry (Australian Aboriginal) = leap > Friends of Boggart Hole Clough advocate Socialism > Equality health internationalism peace reforestation > Tiao (Chinese) = leap > Boggart Hydrophone Listening Club > Lake & Island Waterbirds Sanctuary > Lakeside All-Abilities All-Ages All-Ethnicities All-Nationalities Nature Conservation Arts Woodland Cafe > Sociofungal Ecobridging Reforestation > North Manchester Boggart Hole Clough Biodiversity Health Service Centre > Recovering Britain’s Temperate Rainforest Covering > Kuruka (Swahili) = leap > Co-create Dreams Magical Reality > Free Boggart Mystery Walks > Springen (German) = leap > World Workers United > Generating Planetary Health > General Strike Ending All Wars > Revolutionary Earth Permanent Communal Property > Boggart Lunar Musical Peace Festival > Global Socialist Reforestation > Five Ways Peace Fountain at the Heart of Boggart Hole Clough >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/boggartian-fobhc-15.3.2026-19.4.2026-1.pdf

Saut (French) = leap > “The general nature of dialectics to be developed as the science of inter-connections ..” > Engels, ibid, p.63 > leap > Great Northern Goods Warehouse Canal Rail Road Interchange 1898-1965 > derelict, 1998 proposed repurposing > Manchester International Great Northern Free Public Library Museum of Capitalism to Socialism >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/new-alport-revolutionary-district-fobhc-23.7.2026.pdf

Animal Bogfrog Wetland > amalgam revolutionary symbiosis > leapfrog > “Amphibians are animals that start life as eggs (or spawn) in the water. They develop into tadpoles (or larvae) that look like fish with long tails, and then grow four legs to turn into tiny froglets, toadlets or newtlets before leaving the water. Frogs and toads lose their tails, while newts keep them. They then live mainly on land, preferring generally damp and secluded places and returning to water to breed and hunt .. Common Frog (Rana temporaria) .. Threatened by degradation of habitats and the introduction of disease .. Studies and Actions from Conservation Evidence in detail ..” > https://www.froglife.org/info-advice/amphibians-and-reptiles/common-frog-2/

Neidio (Welsh) = leap > “The human is the sole animal capable of working its way out of the merely animal state: people’s normal state is one appropriate to their consciousness, one that has to be created by themselves ..” > Engels, ibid, pp.198-9 > leap > 17th century, Grade II listed, Hough Hall, Moston > derelict, 2021 proposed repurposing > North Manchester Hough Hall Free Public Library Museum Cultural Heritage Centre > revolutionizing our history >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/fobhc_2.7.2021-21.11.2021_hough_hall_moston_revolutionizing_our_history.pdf

Leim (Irish) = leap > “On 1st May 2026, the Trump administration issued sanctions against any business with the Cuban economy, a measure that, combined with the existing fuel embargo, threatens the island with an unprecedented economic collapse .. Sixty-six years of Castroism have vindicated what the International Committee of the Fourth International has maintained from the outset: that no variant of nationalism can resolve the democratic tasks of oppressed nations, defend their social gains against imperialist attack or lead the working class to socialism. The only road is the one opened by the October Revolution and defended by the Trotskyist movement .. the conscious, independent political organization of the working class on an internationalist program, aimed at the conquest of state power as part of the world socialist revolution.” > Lobo, ibid > https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/03/agqn-j03.html

Chepte (Yaqui) = leap > proposed Engels International University, Hexagon Tower, North Manchester > photo taken 4.7.2004 shows a Rainforest Conservationist holding a Common Frog in Boggart Hole Clough Ancient Woodland Park > Manchester Mother Forest Planet City > the frog then leapt out of his hand to freedom > Minutes, item 5.3 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bhccat-minutes-22904-executive-committee-open-meeting.pdf

Leaping bogfrog > Sunday 21.6.2026 today > Peaceful Boggart Solstice Greetings < backflip leapfrog somersault >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/peaceful-boggart-solstice-greetings-fobhc-21.12.2024.pdf

June 2004 Six photos: 1. Three rusting burnt-out cars in Bailey’s Wood > 6.6.2004 > Minutes, item 10.1 > https://boggart...
23/05/2026

June 2004

Six photos:

1. Three rusting burnt-out cars in Bailey’s Wood > 6.6.2004 > Minutes, item 10.1 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bhccat-minutes-30604-agm.pdf

2. Middle Clough: conservationists removing roots of an invasive non-native plant species, Rhododendron Ponticum > 13.6.2004 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/invasive-non-native-plant-species-undermining-biodiversity-health-of-bhc-ancient-woodland-28.3.2021.pdf

3. Angel Hill War Memorial: 320 names inscribed, local people killed in Two World Wars > 20.6.2004 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/fobhc_11-11-2016_angel_hill_war_memorial_description__related_information1.pdf

4. Alarm Shop: frontage scaffolded; building demolished, despite protests, later same year > 20.6.2004 > Minutes, item 8 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bhccat-minutes-30604-agm.pdf

5. Lakeside Café with The Coffin Dodgers Club signage > 20.6.2004 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/fobhc_17-12-2015_lakeside_cafe_flyer_poster.pdf

6. Pigeon, Canada Goose & Goslings at former Lakeside slipway > 20.6.2004 >https://boggartholeclough.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/bhccat-boggart-waterbirds-species-identification-19-7-20121.pdf

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