{"id":5533,"date":"2026-05-26T13:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=5533"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:00:08","slug":"foreword","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/?page_id=5533","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5533\" class=\"elementor elementor-5533\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-585b494 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"585b494\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-51919f1\" data-id=\"51919f1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0703131 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0703131\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Roy-Lancaster-from-a-poster-promoting-his-Autobiography-1-698x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5522\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Roy-Lancaster-from-a-poster-promoting-his-Autobiography-1-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Roy-Lancaster-from-a-poster-promoting-his-Autobiography-1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Roy-Lancaster-from-a-poster-promoting-his-Autobiography-1-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Roy-Lancaster-from-a-poster-promoting-his-Autobiography-1-1046x1536.jpg 1046w, https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Roy-Lancaster-from-a-poster-promoting-his-Autobiography-1-1395x2048.jpg 1395w, https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Roy-Lancaster-from-a-poster-promoting-his-Autobiography-1-scaled.jpg 1744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-08454b8\" data-id=\"08454b8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1b4d3f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c1b4d3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>FOREWORD<\/strong><br \/>This message was sent to the South Lancashire Flora Committee from Roy Lancaster on 26 September 2025 after his first perusal of this new Flora of South Lancashire:<br \/><strong><em>\u201cI wish you all well on this important project and congratulate all those involved in helping to make the wealth of information regarding the flora of this region available to today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s enthusiasts.\u201d<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Roy Lancaster, plantsman, botanical explorer, broadcaster and author, was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1937. His love of horticulture began with an intense interest in wildflowers and the native plants in and around his local patch. As a boy he wrote The Flora of Raveden (unpublished manuscript). Raveden Clough is a small wooded valley in north Bolton. Roy also contributed records to Travis\u2019s Flora of South Lancashire (1964) edited by J.P Savidge, V.H. Heywood &amp; V. Gordon.<br \/>The accompanying image was\u00a0 taken\u00a0from a poster used at Bolton Library in 2017 promoting a talk by Roy Lancaster about his new book.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOREWORDThis message was sent to the South Lancashire Flora Committee from Roy Lancaster on 26 September 2025 after his first perusal of this new Flora of South Lancashire:\u201cI wish you all well on this important project and congratulate all those involved in helping to make the wealth of information regarding the flora of this region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwesternnaturalistsunion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}