February, 2015 | Invisible Works

Hidden History: Lassie Come Home

Surprising what you find in your garden, I’ve found clay pipe stems and bowls and piece of Romano British pottery, meanwhile a friend of a friend found a bullet case just off Spynke Road in Norwich, it came from this Liberator, ‘Lassie Come Home’ she...

The Blitz: The Firefighter’s Memorial

The Blitz

The Firefighter’s Memorial. Entitled ‘blitz’ by artist John Mills. 997 firemen lost their lives in WW2, all listed on the plinth. It didn’t occur to me to check out the Norwich ones. Idiot that I am. If you care to look up photographs of St...

Hidden History: Novo Jewish Cemetery

Hidden history

A curious place, Novo Jewish Cemetery is hidden in plain sight in the middle of Queen Mary University in Mile End in London. It’s a very old Sephardic jewish burial area the stones are higgeldy piggeldy and worn. I just didn’t realise it was there until we...

Ghosts: A Dog’s Life, the Catton Liberator

Hidden history, Rephotography, The Blitz

This was the scene in Catton at the corner of Church Street and Spixworth Road on the 13th February 1945 and the corner of the same Roads on 22nd December 2011. The Liberator ‘A Dog’s Life’ was one of two that crashed in Catton on the outskirts of...