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
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The Wold Newton Meteorite: from Outer Space into Fiction - The Daily Grail
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In a field in England, in the East Riding of Yorkshire to be more precise, amid the grass and nettles there stands a lone curious 24 foot (7.3 metre) red brick obelisk. Constructed more than 200 years...Ghosts of Doggerland - Beeston Hills, a kame field at Beeston Regis, Norfolk. There are records in drawings from the 18th century of more than just the one 'bump'. Kames are glacially deposited hills formed by deposits in hollows in glaciers dropping as they stop and start to retreat.
Some really quite incredible footage here of the Western Front between the wars. It was shot using Cine in colour, probably in the early to mid 1930s by Charles Bridgen, himself a veteran, who returned to the front to visit spots he would have known. This is intercut with a wedding sequence in Amien and a trip to Verdun. It’s rather haunting and Melancholy with a capital M. Well worth a watch. Thanks to Taff Gillingham for flagging this up, remarkable find that it is.
youtu.be/esA9SXyzAWkA short film made in 1928 by Charles W. Bridgen of his journey to revisit the battle sites in Northern France. Bridgen was L. Corporal in the 7th London Batt...