Moira Furnace
Moira Furnace is a nineteenth-century iron-making blast furnace located in Moira, Leicestershire, on the banks of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
It is a most important industrial monument, since it is remarkably well-preserved, and dates from a formative period of the Industrial Revolution.
We built sandcastles that washed away
We built sand castles that washed away, I made you cry when I walked away…
Fly-tipped
A week ago, a truck fly-tipped a load of waste onto the little road I can see from the back of my house. They did this blatantly and in broad daylight on Saturday morning. Within a couple of minutes, they were gone.
What looked like general household waste was eventually revealed to be a large quantity of building crap - rubble, plaster, and other solid and heavy debris. I posted a photo on our local community forum. Various people thought they saw the truck but didn’t get the licence number. Others pitched in saying they thought the licence plate was either covered, removed or fake. Somebody managed to get a photo of the truck making its getaway.
Lockheed U-2
I took these photos of this awesome Cold War wraith at an airshow (probably Farnborough) many years ago. I developed and printed the images myself (at art college).
1960s slide of a barrage balloon
This is a photograph I’ve been wanting to see again for years and years. I only vaguely remembered this particular trip, to the point that I doubted that it had happened. I remembered a giant airship, and people jumping from it. I had no idea at the time what it was I was seeing.
Rudston Monolith
I was once driving back home from Bamburgh in Northumberland and came across the amazing site of a giant megalith in the churchyard of a Norman church. I had no idea why there was an enormous - obviously ancient - standing stone in such close proximity to a beautiful old church. I had to stop and have a closer look.
Old photos of Kennedy Space Centre from 1984
In 1984, while still at Hornsey School of Art, I sold my old Ford Escort mk1 and used the proceeds to go to the USA and visit my old school friends who had emigrated a few years earlier to New Orleans. A group of us went on a road trip to Florida, with our destination being the Kennedy Space Center.
Very small businessmen
I too have dabbled with some images using these small figures that you can get. It’s a thing.
Exquisite miniature trees
Here are some photographs of Bonsai trees that I took at WindyBank Bonsai.
Battersea Arts Centre
Last night, went to Battersea Arts Centre to see a new film called Sea Sorrow, the directorial debut of Vanessa Redgrave, which highlights the plight and courage of refugees.
Topkapı Palace
The Topkapı Palace, or the Seraglio, is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.
Colindale Underground Station
Colindale is a London Underground station in Colindale, a suburb of north London. The station is on the north-south Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Burnt Oak and Hendon Central stations.
Kaymaklı Underground City
Kaymaklı Underground City is contained within the citadel of Kaymaklı in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. First opened to tourists in 1964, the village is about 19 km from Nevşehir, on the Nevşehir-Niğde road.
Inside a Nimrod R1 spy plane
Last week I went up to the RAF Museum at RAF Cosford in Shrophire and got the chance to go inside the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod R1, a Cold War-era reconnaissance and electronic intelligence gathering spyplane.
Tree cutting sequence
I heard a chainsaw in the street. I tried to ignore it but it was an intrusive noise and I wondered what was taking such a hammering. I looked out to see a man cutting down the large acacia tree in the yard of the house opposite.
A boat trip from Oxford
Last Sunday I had the great pleasure of being invited along on a boat trip down the River Thames - a celebration of my partner's uncle's 80th birthday.
We set off at noon from Folly Bridge in Oxford, passed through two locks, sailed as far as Abingdon, turned round and came back.
Strand Underpass
Here are four photographs taken inside the Strand Underpass in London. Something about this road tunnel just makes me want to take pictures.
A traffic jam on the A3
Last Friday I got caught in a queue of traffic on the way to work. I shot these photographs within a few hundred metres on the A3 in south-west London over the course of about an hour.
The Earl Ferrers, Streatham
The Earl Ferrers is a really nice local boozer in Streatham, south west London, that serves good beer and great food. I like going there for Sunday roast. Here are some photographs of the pub.