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Rephotography
Ghosting old photos onto new photos
Wymondham Ghosts
Part of the touring exhibition – Tradition and Innovation: The Story of Market Towns. From the press release: The exhibition will be touring to museums in Sheringham, Diss, Swaffham and Wymondham from November 2013 to July 2015, before making its way to museums across...
Blitz Ghosts: Oak Street & Sussex Street, Norwich, 1942
Oak Street & Sussex Street, Norwich, 1942. More scenes from the Norwich Blitz. Probably the morning of 28th April. Tough ones. I spent far longer trying to work out where it was than normal, and there's story behind this scene that you will find below that brings...
Blitz Ghosts Norwich: Danger UXB
More in the Blitz Ghosts Norwich series. I'm not sure where the above picture is exactly, Originally I thought it was possibly at Harford dump, which is where most of the defused stuff ended up, or it might be the depot in Ipswich, turns out it's in Anchor Quay to the...
Blitz Ghosts – St Augustines School, Norwich
St Augustines School 1940, a posed shot for George Swain as the children enact an air raid drill, there are a few others in this series, showing twisted lines of children waiting to enter, one of the other ones lines up with the wall and some door and windows behind...
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
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 like...
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 blip in and...
Cinema Ghosts: Great Yarmouth
A recent addition to the series undertaken as part of project I've worked on with Cinema Plus at Cinema City, called Norfolk at the Pictures. This second set contains a series of images of cinemas in Great Yarmouth from the turn of the twentieth century up to 1960....
Plunkett’s Lost City Ghosts: The Forum and St Peter’s Street.
Peter Mancroft & Forum - White Swan Yard Ghost 1960 > 2013. Part of a series I start and stop doing as the desire takes me as you do, featuring the Photography of George Plunkett. I might do some more soon just for the hell of it. The site has seen a fair bit...