Blitz Ghosts Norwich: Danger UXB

Blitz Ghosts Norwich: Danger UXB

Rephotography, The Blitz

More in the Blitz Ghosts Norwich series. I’m not sure where the above picture is exactly, Originally I thought it was possibly at Harford dump, which is where most of the defused stuff ended up, or it might be the depot in Ipswich, turns out it’s in Anchor...
Blitz Ghosts – St Augustines

Blitz Ghosts – St Augustines

Rephotography, The Blitz

St Augustines School 1940, a posed shot for George Swain as the children enact an air raid drill, there are a few others in this series, showing twisted lines of children waiting to enter, one of the other ones lines up with the wall and some door and windows behind...
Hidden history: The concrete toilet

Hidden history: The concrete toilet

Hidden history

Norwich, city of culture twenty err something eventually, home of the world’s first pre-cast concrete sectional toilet. It’s like our very own version of Shropshire’s Iron bridge, only it’s a concrete toilet. You can’t go and utilise the...
Cinema Ghosts: The Empire Great Yarmouth

Cinema Ghosts: The Empire Great Yarmouth

Rephotography

The Empire, a rather grand building standing above anything else at the more southern End of Marine Parade. It is a rather splendid Pigeon home, and although bits of fascia have been removed is still a rather attractive old building, the inside is supposed to be...
Cinema Ghosts: The Central or Plaza

Cinema Ghosts: The Central or Plaza

Rephotography

Right up in the middle of Great Yarmouth town centre is this. It stood where Poundland is, opposite the fish and chips and seats and seagulls and the kids and people eating lunch, it’s quite a vibrant little bit of Great Yarmouth, I like it. I like chips too,...
Jagger Swagger

Jagger Swagger

The Great War

All cities are full of nexus points, the crossings of networks of roads that run the city. Because most of our major ant colonies grow irregularly, they form and coalesce around point sin the landscape and those points shift and change over time, one centre can...
It’s beginning to and back again

It’s beginning to and back again

Persistence of memory

We went to London. We do this journey quite often, from the East it is a fairly routine trip, a day out; one of those the ever shortening distances that only just hold us all apart. We have offspring who have set up shop there in the expense and dull glitter, the piss...
Cinema Ghosts: The Royal Aquarium Great Yarmouth.

Cinema Ghosts: The Royal Aquarium Great Yarmouth.

Rephotography

This is the Hollywood, and it isn’t it’s also the Aquarium, a familiar site to nearly everyone who has ever been to Great Yarmouth, sitting as it does to the Northen End of the Town just before you head out through North Denes to Caister. They can see it...
Cinema Ghosts: Great Yarmouth

Cinema Ghosts: Great Yarmouth

Rephotography

A recent addition to the series undertaken as part of project I’ve worked on with Cinema Plus at Cinema City, called Norfolk at the Pictures. This second set contains a series of images of cinemas in Great Yarmouth from the turn of the twentieth century up to...