Graffiti Jam, Sovereign House, Anglia Square 2009
by Nick | January 11, 2020 | Persistence of memory | 0 Comments
I'm a bit of a graffiti watcher, I like the stuff basically, it's that human mark-making thing. The 'remember me' trope. I've written about it a little bit before, arborglyphs at Blickling springs to mind. I've also watched a lot of developments with Medieval Graffiti...
It’s beginning to and back again
by Nick | April 9, 2015 | Persistence of memory, Through glass | 0 Comments
We went to London. We do this journey quite often, from here, 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,...
What remains – ghosts 1
by Nick | July 5, 2021 | Persistence of memory | 6 Comments
I’ve built up a bow wave of subjectivity over the years about ghosts. I grew up in a lapsed-methodist household, my mum’s background was very low-church, the residual extent of which was she liked singing hymns in the kitchen at Sunday tea time. My dad sometimes, but...
Cambridge – persistence of memory
by Nick | November 10, 2016 | Persistence of memory, The Great War | 2 Comments
Persistence of memory My mum grew up here. Her and therefore 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...
Collapsing new buildings: Sheffield
by Nick | December 2, 2014 | Persistence of memory | 2 Comments
I used to go to Sheffield a fair bit, less so now as one of the reasons we went as often as we did was one of my children lived there and she now lives in Greece, via Slovakia and Vietnam, she is one of the estimated 2 million Britons living in Europe that handily get...
9/11 – the years on
by Guest Writer | September 11, 2015 | Guest writers, Persistence of memory | 0 Comments
Guest post from Louisa Griffith-Jones. Sometimes you just stumble across a remarkable piece of writing. Louisa posted this earlier today. I read this about 9/11 standing at a bus-stop, a lump in my throat. She is a friend, someone I remember from gigs in the early...
Persistence of memory
Present views of combined pasts
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