The Empire Cinema Great Yarmouth

The Empire Cinema Great Yarmouth

Rephotography

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

Rephotography

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.

Rephotography

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...
Blitz Ghosts Norwich 1943

Blitz Ghosts Norwich 1943

Rephotography, The Blitz

Some Blitz Ghosts images of Norwich from 1943 In Norwich in 1943 White stuff was an International, GAP was a Barclays bank, Buntings is Habitat, or was and Bullen’s remains unchanged. The originals of these photos were taken  by Lew Funk: his Son John is...
Ghosts: Ypres in the Great War

Ghosts: Ypres in the Great War

Rephotography, The Great War

This is an ongoing series of Ghosts that I tend to do on an as and when I’m in the right areas to do them and can find where they were taken. The difficulty being the extend of the damage to the front and the 100 years mean sometimes it’s difficult to...
Great War: Zeppelin raids 2

Great War: Zeppelin raids 2

Rephotography

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...
Lost City Ghosts: St Andrews Hill

Lost City Ghosts: St Andrews Hill

Rephotography

I went for a wander to do some work stuff and the light was wrong for what I was actually supposed to be doing so on the way back up St Andrew’s Hill I did these two. Both are George Plunkett photos from 1936, showing the old buildings at the head of the hill...
Ghosts of D-Day – Sword Beach

Ghosts of D-Day – Sword Beach

Rephotography

Sword Beach I rather missed the landing craft with these, I mucked about setting up the post last week in anticipation of the 70th Anniversary and then ran out of time to do it. But here they are in the second wave, lost behind the Tsunami of other Ghosts of D-Day...
Ghosts: Hawthorn Ridge the Somme

Ghosts: Hawthorn Ridge the Somme

Rephotography, The Great War

I feel like a bit of a slacker, I’m tired, having gallivanted through The Somme for most of three days, I’ll leave you with this; a starter for ten. The photo is a ghost of one of the Somme mines that were set of at precisely and critically 7.30...
City Station Norwich

City Station Norwich

Rephotography, The Blitz

A Blitz Ghost of the Portico of City Station, just at the bottom of Barn Road in Norwich being dismantled by one man and a hammer. The Station was bombed on the first night of the raids. Not built on entirely solid ground it was already cracked, the weight of brick on...