Forgotten outposts: The Bure line at Oxnead
You will, as you drive around north and east Norfolk, pass these all over the place. In fact you’ll find them all over the county as you will tank blocks and mortar spigots, even the odd trench line still exists all still protecting us from a long dead, now...
Forgotten Outposts: Stella Plage Atlantikwall
A beach in Northern France, Pas De Calais actually, just south of Le Touquet and Etaples. It’s a beautiful beach, so I ignored it and took photos of this bunker. I can’t find anything much out about it. Except it’s a Vf style reinforced personnel...
Forgotten outposts: Brandiston type 22
There are hundreds of these scattered across Norfolk, it’s not a modern phenomenon either. Defence starts at the gate to your house, there’s ramparts and forts, dating from the late Neolithic to fairly recent lumps of Cold War concrete dotted about on...
Dead cities: La Coupole
This is the Ida railway supply tunnel, Bauvorhaben 21 (Building Project 21), Schotterwerk Nordwest (Northwest Gravel Works) at Wizernes, St Omer. Built by Organisation Todt using “compulsory labour” (about 60% French, 40% non combatant German) the tunnel...
Coasting: Winterton’s war
Yet more lumps of concrete, I doubt a the vast majority of people even give them a thought apart from trying not to scratch the car. Bit strange though, 13 ton blocks of concrete in a car park, and on the beach in one of those lovely little Norfolk corners. Winterton,...IW on Facebook
Armistice exhibition. Opens Saturday. Includes an piece I was commissioned to make for the exhibition. www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/norwich-castle/whats-on/exhibitions/armistice-legacy-of-the-great-war-...
Armistice: Legacy of the Great War in Norfolk - Norfolk Museums
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Armistice: Legacy of the Great War in Norfolk is a major centenary exhibition commemorating the end of the First World War.www.lensculture.com/articles/bob-mazzer-life-from-a-tube-the-london-underground
Life from a Tube: The London Underground - Video interview with Bob Mazzer | LensCulture
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The world’s subway riders have inspired photographers for decades—this work stands with the best of them, capturing London’s Tube riders with humanity, humor and delightEuston lost tunnelsHidden London Tour by the Transport Museum. Closed in April 1962, these were public access routes between Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway and City and South London. Fascinating, a must see.
More info here: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/hidden-london