Lost in a Landscape: Arminghall henge

Lost in a Landscape: Arminghall henge

Lost in a landscape

Imagine for a moment flying over a landscape. There’s a city below you receding to one side, fields coming into view on the other, lots of features to look at as well as flying a plane. You look down and spot a mark in a field, and this is the sort of thing you...
Vanishing Point: The Ridge

Vanishing Point: The Ridge

Vanishing Points

It’s quite an apposite moment, the ridge being what it is, a symbol of so much thrashing about in the earth trying to gain a foothold, somewhere that looms large in Canada’s psyche and it’s nearly Canada Day, a day that symbolises so much about the...
Vanishing Point: The Redoubt

Vanishing Point: The Redoubt

Vanishing Points

There are areas of the Somme where you can really feel the past; where the landscape whilst modified hasn’t been essentially changed. This is one of those places. What remains isn’t difficult to spot and is easy to get too a walk down a grass clotted, tyre...
Coasting: Guns of Mundesley

Coasting: Guns of Mundesley

Coasting, Dead cities & forgotten outposts

An odd little place is Munsley, somewhere inbetween Victoria and now you can sense a fading  into much more of a backwater than was probably intended by the holiday destination builders. A pretty Victorian resort perched on high soft glacial sand cliffs, protected...
Dead cities: RAF Swannington

Dead cities: RAF Swannington

Dead cities & forgotten outposts

RAF Swannington, known locally as RAF Haveringland, either way it’s a little Gem, I spent the best part of a blisteringly hot afternoon messing around on the edges of an all but invisible Second World War airfield. It’s just there, lost in the landscape,...