Ah, now I’ve got you lost too.
And that will be England gone,
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,
The guildhalls, the carved choirs.
There’ll be books; it will linger on
In galleries; but all that remains
For us will be concrete and tyres.
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Lost Rivers of Norwich
I'm nothing if not unoriginal, this has come about for two reasons; me watching the excellent Thames Discovery project at work on Twitter, And more recently an idea of Jon Welch's based on seeing this rather remarkable work of Art by Stephen Water; his is hours of...
Coasting: Trimingham – On the beach
I wrote a bit about Trimingham a few weeks ago, it was canvas really, the backdrop, the beach is the deep history. Being what it is and how quiet it can be we went back. There was a bitter driving Northerly, ice bearing, even the hardy fishermen had all packed up and...
Coasting: Happisburgh
I keep trapping myself in series' of work and forgetting that sometimes I take a photo just because I happen to be somewhere and something special happens. I was just poking about in my digital shoe boxes and I came across these. We went along the coast the day after...
Forgotten outposts: Brandiston type 22
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 awkward corners...
Hidden History: Lassie Come Home
Surprising what you find in your garden, I've found clay pipe stems and bowls and piece of Romano British pottery, meanwhile a friend of a friend found a bullet case just off Spynke Road in Norwich, it came from this Liberator, 'Lassie Come Home' she didn't come home...
The Blitz: The Firefighter’s Memorial
The Firefighter's Memorial. Entitled 'blitz' by artist John Mills. 997 firemen lost their lives in WW2, all listed on the plinth. It didn't occur to me to check out the Norwich ones. Idiot that I am. If you care to look up photographs of St Paul's Cathedral during the...
Hidden History: Novo Jewish Cemetery
A curious place, Novo Jewish Cemetery is hidden in plain sight in the middle of Queen Mary University in Mile End in London. It's a very old Sephardic jewish burial area the stones are higgeldy piggeldy and worn. I just didn't realise it was there until we walked past...
Ghosts: A Dog’s Life, the Catton Liberator
This was the scene in Catton at the corner of Church Street and Spixworth Road on the 13th February 1945 and the corner of the same Roads on 22nd December 2011. The Liberator 'A Dog's Life' was one of two that crashed in Catton on the outskirts of Norwich, The other...
Lost in a Landscape: Felbrigg
Plank Bridge. That's what it means, bit of Old Norse from Denmark 'Fjol', and a bit of Old English 'Brycg' itself a Friesian word which is almost the same as the Saxon which in itself shows how close the waves lap the shore when it comes to settlers, or invaders or...
Coasting: Caister
Caister on Sea, March 2013, a scouring North Easterly for a few weeks changed the profile of of this, and Hopton beaches dramatically, revealing some secrets that haven't been seen for a decade or so, estimates indicate losses of between five and ten feet of sand,...
Lost in a landscape: Booton
There's things you round a corner and don't really expect to see in the corner of a field, ostriches for instance, rare but not unlikely, elephants, I've seen photos of elephants in Norfolk fields. Booton has a really staggeringly odd, stamp-on-your-brakes sort of...
Lost City Ghosts: Oak Street & St Martins
106 to 114 Oak Street, when George Plunkett pounded the streets in 1936 snapping away at the other end of the time tunnel, these rather lovely Tudor houses were still there, then a period of massive vandalism occurred during which Norwich reshaped itself, partly with...