Cambridge – persistence of memory
My mum grew up here. Her and my ancestors were here for hundreds of years working as maids and cleaners, labourers, cartmen and brickies, laying the railways, further back pulling the root veg through the surface of the peaty soils to the north or tending beans and...
The workhorse and the charger
I lived in North Walsham as a kid. RAF Coltishall was only about 6 miles away. We all grew up with the Lightning; the cold-war emblems glossily belting past at high altitude, breaking the sound barrier with that window-rattling, deep, sonorous boom they are famed for....
9/11 – the years on
Guest post from Louisa Griffith-Jones. Sometimes you just stumble across a remarkable piece of writing. Louisa posted this earlier today. I read it standing at a bus-stop, a lump in my throat. She is a friend, someone I remember from gigs in the early 1980s at UEA...
On the beach: Utah
We’ve just been away. It didn’t take me very long to remember that I’m not very good at holidays. The vacancy of it all gets to me very quickly, I find it difficult to relax and conjure ‘fun’ up out of being somewhere just because...
Dear Dad…
I’ve resisted the urge to paint this incomplete picture for a while. But when I started writing this some months ago it would have been my dad’s birthday. This got me thinking about him and about how I’m heading towards the age he was when my mum had...IW on Facebook
Euston 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.
Norfolk Museums Service
'Armistice: Legacy of the Great War in Norfolk' - a major centenary exhibition that explores the impact of the conflict on individuals and communities across the county through a diverse array of objects, posters, photographs & archives - Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery 20 October 2018 - 6 January 2019
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