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Lost boys: Sid Northrop

I recently rediscovered this. It was something I’d put on Flickr. It is the tale of another family member and his last few days and hours in the Great War. We visited the panel he is remembered on at Tyne Cot a couple of years ago. He was my grandmother Jesse...

Baedeker Blitz Norwich – deaths

The Blitz

I’ve intended to publish this every year since about 2011, refining it slowly. A year or so ago I tweeted all of these names, these people, because every year I always try to do something or other, perhaps in an oddly selfish way, in some ways to remember them...

Vanishing Points Exhibition 2018

VANISHING POINTS EXHIBITION This project started on the 11th of November 1971. It was Armistice Day. A blue sweet tin was taken out of a cupboard by my mother and opened, it contained a scroll, a large bronze penny, a handful of medals and some postcards with lace on...

Cambridge – persistence of memory

Persistence of memory, The Great War

Persistence of memory My mum grew up here. Her and therefore my ancestors were here for hundreds of years working as maids and cleaners, labourers, cartmen, and brickies, laying the railways, further back pulling the root veg through the surface of the peaty soils to...

Vanishing Point: Rosebeke

Persistence of memory, Vanishing Points

A strange day. I’ve been working very loosely on an ongoing project called ‘Vanishing Points’ for a while. I’m a bit of a fan of VPs, lots of artists are as a way of leading the eye into compositions, focussing the viewers mind. Kubrick for...

Trench Fever

Persistence of memory, The Great War

I thought it was about time I did a bit of quantifying, I’ve done a something in a previous piece here, which scratches at the back of a story but only tells the penultimate episode of it not the rest, there’s other bits clanging and banging about on the...

The long walk

Vanishing Points

Not the most thrilling set of photographs, but the one above shows how a field with some lumps in it, tells a story or doesn’t. And of course it also tells how history is there, I’m just the princess who knows where that particular pea is under this...

Before the NHS…

Persistence of memory

I’ve blogged before about this on Flickr years ago, using some family photos which belonged to my mum. The Health Service is quite important in our family, there are many nurses and healthcare workers in the ranks. This was particularly true for her – she was...