Live tweeting: Norwich Blitz 2

Live tweeting: Norwich Blitz 2

The Blitz

  29th and 30th April 1942. Again a live tweet of the Norwich Blitz, the second Baedeker Raid.   [View the story “Norwich Blitz – Raid 2, live tweets” on Storify]
Live tweeting: Norwich Blitz 1

Live tweeting: Norwich Blitz 1

The Blitz

I’ve been left slightly speechless by the response to a something I did last night on the spur of a moment relating to The Norwich Blitz. I have a head full of stuff relating to lots of things, the inner nerd has lots of strange habits, and whilst mulling over...
Trench Fever

Trench Fever

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...
Supporting Pulp

Supporting Pulp

Music

  We once supported Pulp. All local bands get to support someone half-decent if they keep at it and harass people for long enough, which is basically what we did. As experiences went it wasn’t that special, but beat the hell out of playing in an empty bar...
Ghosts: Hawthorn Ridge the Somme

Ghosts: Hawthorn Ridge the Somme

Rephotography, The Great War

I feel like a bit of a slacker, I’m tired, having gallivanted through The Somme for most of three days, I’ll leave you with this; a starter for ten. The photo is a ghost of one of the Somme mines that were set of at precisely and critically 7.30...
Hidden history: A winged victory for the sullen

Hidden history: A winged victory for the sullen

Hidden history

‘Peace’ or an Angel Sheathing a Sword, not actually a winged victory at all, despite the smile. A rather attractive woman, but you wouldn’t especially want to piss her off. If you lived at the top of Prince of Wales Road you might fancy having a...