Lost in a landscape: Worstead
I was looking for something else, I didn’t actually find what I was after, because of gates and no access signs and the sound of people murdering wildlife in Westwick woods, but as I pootled down another dead end this vista was there, so I hopped along...
Coasting: Morston
This isn’t really my home Coast, I grew up with The stretch from Mundesley in the middle, awareness stretching from Sheringham to Winterton, the bits beyond were different, Great Yarmouth to the South was the stuff of fevered dreams and slot machines, impossible...
Vanishing Points: Tyne Cot
If and when you visit the Western Front, which a huge and growing number of people do partly because of the centenary and partly because you know, corner of a foreign field and all that family stuff, you are entering a piece of ground that is pretty much at the...
Vanishing point: Before endeavours fade
I’d been meaning to go to Holborn and take a photo of this chap for years. This is my grandfathers regimental memorial, he was in the 1st RF (of which I have already posted plenty), I collect these things for some reason I can’t fathom. The memorial is a...
WW1 Aerial photos in colour: Water filled shell holes
I’m not sure where this is as I found it, it could be almost anywhere on the front at various times, a watery landscape where trenches are merely shell holes joined together, It could be Chateau Wood, it could be near Passchendaele or Hooge or somewhere on the...
WW1 Aerial photos in colour: Messines
You start to doubt your sanity slightly when you spend an hour colouring in a photo brown that was, erm, brown, well sepia, but I’ve also tried to pull the detail out a bit as well. This is Messines Just to the South East of Ypres, This was taken on the 2nd of...
WW1: Trench Ghosts Part 2
Part 2 in a series of an uncertain number of these things. There’s no project like an open ended one… St Eloi 1915 St Eloi is just to the South East of Ypres on the Salient, not that far from Hellfire Corner, or Hellfire Roundabout as it is now. There are...
Vanishing Point: Thiepval
72,191 names. Rising up as it does above the trees on the Thiepval ridge on the Somme, it is by turns a beautiful, vast and horrifying edifice of brick and stone, coloured like blood and bone. A list, a huge frightening and sobering list. The number of names, the...Products
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Further to those pics, for anyone who isn’t aware of William of Norwich, the chapel, blood libel and the persecution of the Jews in the 12th century in Norwich and further afield, there’s a piece on it here from a few years ago. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/hidden-history-the-forgotten-chapel/
Hidden History: The forgotten chapel | Invisible Works
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Ring-roads, go round and past. Nature of the beast I suppose, circling. Norwich is blessed with ever-increasing circles; from the old castle ditches and the fee to the city wall and the inner linkA curiosity - now confirmed to be one of four Chapel boundary markers, thanks to Stephen Jarvis.
Prior to this: Spotted this on Mousehold. It’s a piece of what looks to be limestone rather than concrete. I suspect it’s usually obscured by bracken, about 8 inches deep and wide. It’s positioned just outside the southeastern perimeter of the site of St William’s Chapel about halfway off towards the Great War light railway line. I assume it’s medieval in origin, but can’t be sure. Anyway, just one of those things.