Lost in a landscape: The Denes

Lost in a landscape: The Denes

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...
Through glass: Victorian Great Yarmouth

Through glass: Victorian Great Yarmouth

Victorian Great Yarmouth   I’m always on the look out for old photographs, negatives, slides and plates. In particular, the old, forgotten and unseen. The vague visual detective work involved in trying to work out when the shutter fell as much as where, it...
Cinema ghosts: Great Yarmouth Cinemas Regal & Theatre

Cinema ghosts: Great Yarmouth Cinemas Regal & Theatre

Great Yarmouth Cinemas More from the Norfolk at the Pictures rephotography series of Great Yarmouth. There two here showing the different incarnations of the Theatre and the Regal.  The first one is the Theatre that gives the name to the now empty Theatre Street. It...
The Halvergate Shuck

The Halvergate Shuck

Guest post from Nigel Thorpe There’s nothing quite as strange and good as a tale from the horses mouth, someone you know who has encountered, done, or experienced something. Nigel bumped into Shuck at the very start of the millennium. This story serves to show...
The Empire Cinema Great Yarmouth

The Empire Cinema Great Yarmouth

The Empire Cinema Great Yarmouth, a rather grand building standing above anything else at the more southern End of Marine Parade. It is a rather splendid Pigeon home, and although bits of fascia have been removed is still a rather attractive old building, the inside...
The Central or Plaza Cinema Great Yarmouth

The Central or Plaza Cinema Great Yarmouth

Right up in the middle of Great Yarmouth town centre is this. the Central or Plaza Cinema, it stood where Poundland is, opposite the fish and chips and seats and seagulls and the kids and people eating lunch, it’s quite a vibrant little bit of Great Yarmouth, I...
Cinema Ghosts: The Royal Aquarium Great Yarmouth.

Cinema Ghosts: The Royal Aquarium Great Yarmouth.

This is the Hollywood, and it isn’t it’s also the Aquarium, a familiar site to nearly everyone who has ever been to Great Yarmouth, sitting as it does to the Northen End of the Town just before you head out through North Denes to Caister. They can see it...
Great War: Zeppelin raids 2

Great War: Zeppelin raids 2

A couple more ghost composites to commemorate the Zeppelin Raids on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the 19th/20th of January 1915 both in Great Yarmouth in 1915, created exactly 100 years to the day. The soldiers are stood in the doorway of the Drill Hall near...
Great War: Zeppelin raids

Great War: Zeppelin raids

A couple of ghost composites to commemorate the Zeppelin Raids on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the 20th of January 1915 for my opening ‘ghosting’ escapade of 2015. Above is St Peters Villa on St Peter’s Plain and below is damage to...