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Salisbury Close, POTTERS BAR, EN6 5AX

As seen from the path adjacent to the car park.

This is a fungus that it is worth knowing how to identify, as it looks remarkably similar to a field mushroom but is in fact poisonous. Agaricus xanthodermus can easily be identified however, because its flesh turns chrome yellow when bruised. As a general rule, any gilled white or cream fungus that turns yellow on bruising should be avoided as it is indicative of several poisonous species. When cut, the base of the stipe (stem) of this species should exhibit this colouration, but this snapped stem is only showing a little yellowing. The younger mushrooms, before the cap opens, look like padded drum-sticks - running your finger-nail across the cap of these will produce a deep chrome yellow colour. Note also the fawn scaly markings on the top of the caps and the skirt-like ring near the top of the stem on the open (and upside down) example. See picked example Image] and bruised example Image]

The armistice that ended the First World War was signed at 11:00am on 11/11/1918 - this photo was taken of the memorial honouring the dead of that war - and subsequently of later wars - 93 years later. The service here had just ended when I took this photo at about 11:15, and a few people including local schoolchildren were still lingering near the monument.

The War Memorial in a small memorial garden on the eastern side of the High Street in Potters Bar. The roll of honour on the monument uses rather unusual lettering, for example T and H joined together for TH. See also Image] and Image]

My apologies for the pun, but I couldn't resist it. A Victorian gravestone is seen here liberally scattered with fallen berries from an overhanging Yew tree (Taxus baccata). The berries comprise a soft gelatinous bright-red non-poisonous "aril" around a single very poisonous seed. A number of birds, especially the thrush family, eat these berries, with the seed passing through their systems to perhaps germinate into a Yew sapling. A few birds such as the hawfinch can crack open the seeds and eat them with impunity to the poisonous Taxines.

These gravestones are behind the memorial and garden in the High Street.

Grade II listed war memorial erected to the designs of architect C.F.A. Voysey. Description at this http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1174621.