Forgotten outposts: The Bure line at Oxnead

Forgotten outposts: The Bure line at Oxnead

Lost in a landscape

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: Brandiston type 22

Forgotten outposts: Brandiston type 22

Lost in a landscape

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...
Coasting: Winterton’s war

Coasting: Winterton’s war

Coasting, Lost in a landscape

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,...
Coasting: Horsey

Coasting: Horsey

Coasting, Lost in a landscape

Horsey is a curious area, it’s always felt like slightly dead ground to me, for the uninitiated it is just to the North of Winterton and South of Waxham, it has it’s own Broad a large flat expanse of water edged by windpumps, dunes and intermittent seals....
Coasting: Kelling Hard and Salthouse

Coasting: Kelling Hard and Salthouse

Coasting, Lost in a landscape

The weather opened up and glimmered for 24 hours in between the crushing Atlantic low we seem to have chained together coming at us at the moment, so we went for a wander along the shingle between Kelling and Salthouse, a favourite spot of ours, excluding the dog...