Lost in a landscape
There are literally, really, honestly hundreds of these sites in Norfolk, I’ll do a post on them eventually. Godwick is one of my favourites; it’s remote, a bit hidden up and not exactly populated by other wanderers. The vast majority of these DMVs...
Lost in a landscape
RAF Happisburgh Everyone I mean *everyone* in North Norfolk, and the Eastern bit of North Norfolk, or East Norfolk as I like to call it when I’m a bit y’know, not from London or the home counties, knows Happisburgh. It’s the most interesting bit of...
Rephotography
An interesting little job/favour for Rob Schäfer of gottmituns.net/, this is his Great Uncle Alois Gilgenbach, retouched and colourised. I’ve not attempted a Wehrmacht soldier before, but at the end of the day the only real difference was feld grau instead of...
Lost in a landscape
RAF Deopham Green Latterly, RAF Deopham Green was home to 452nd Bombardment Group (Heavy), becoming USAAF designation Station 142*. The group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses as part of the Eighth Air Force’s strategic bombing campaign. This is a remnant of the North...
Rephotography, The Blitz
A Blitz Ghost of the Portico of City Station, just at the bottom of Barn Road in Norwich being dismantled by one man and a hammer. The Station was bombed on the first night of the raids. Not built on entirely solid ground it was already cracked, the weight of brick on...
Rephotography, The Blitz
Not something you see every day. This is the Norwich Dornier, a Do 17z Number U5 EA. The same one featured in various photos of Eaton Park in Norwich, Sitting there like a giant Airfix kit being winched onto a flat back. A German Dornier Do17z in bits in the car park...