Trench Ghosts part 4

Trench Ghosts part 4

Georeferencing, Rephotography, The Great War

Langemark A few trench ghosts I did last week then got distracted and forgot about. One of Langemark and one of the Sugarloaf salient at Fromelles. The Langemark rephoto leaps out straight away. It’s also familiar to anyone that’s ever visited the German...
Hidden History: The forgotten chapel

Hidden History: The forgotten chapel

Hidden history

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 link roads, out to the proper ring-road now forming into another ripple of...
The Walled City 4: St Augustines Gate

The Walled City 4: St Augustines Gate

Walled city

This used to be the back wall of Magpie Print. I remember it being an inside; a building full of printing gear with ‘Mudpie Bob’ at the helm steering it. The trade seas were rough, from letterpress through to photolitho. I used to help him out with...
Aerial ghosts: Messines updated

Aerial ghosts: Messines updated

Georeferencing, The Great War

I had a very interesting email today from Gil Bossuyt of frontaaltours.com which has prompted this post. Gil has been looking at the image I originally colourised in this piece. It goes thus: “I went searching on trench maps to recognize some road structures,...
Lost in a landscape: The Denes

Lost in a landscape: The Denes

Lost in a landscape

Summer is nearly upon us, it’s May, a bank holiday weekend. What better time for a lazy trip to Great Yarmouth for a mindless wander along the prom and up to the strange outland of the Denes, even hazy sun is nice, in this swearing breathing Martin Parr...