Coasting: Eccles beach – far away in time
Eccles beach. Not Echo Beach, but I like a nice inexpensive joke derived from a slightly odd eighties lyric now and again, you just watch me. There are a fair few Eccles in Britain the famous one is in Salford, where those crumbly buttery cakes with raisins in that...Products
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A fascinating look at the in built archaeology of a painting. In this case Old Crome's painting of Mousehold Heath. www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/mousehold-heath-norwich-john-crome/the-painting
Stumbled across some archived scans looking for something else this morning. These are from a project I ran through my work at Starfish in 2017 for The Assembly House Trust, we uncovered a wealth of material dating from the late 1940s to the rebuild after the Fire. These were I believe taken by Eric Sexton, then a leading light in trying to preserve various buildings in Norwich. He did quite a lot of recording work in the early 1960s, these are from that collection. Here you can see Stump Cross, Coslany Street, and Red Lion Street. I’ll dig the rest at some point.
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The Quietus | Features | Low Culture | A Glimmer Of Cope: Adelle Stripe On The Modern Antiquarian
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In the first of our subscriber-exclusive Low Culture essays, Adelle Stripe opens her battered copy of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian and argues that this guide to Britain's neolithic remains has...