Before you begin reading this post about Rye Harbour you should really turn your speakers on and play this YouTube video. The sound effects played will accompany these images nicely. The sound of the wind whistling through yacht masts, the…
It’s sunset on Hastings Stade and fishing boat RX38 heads off into the night to begin its work. The crew of the boat is plying the same trade as those ancestors who worked the same waters before the Norman Invasion.…
The picture of Pett Level above shows the height of the sea defences. The land is only just above sea level and it is these defences that keep the sea at bay and usable for livestock. Of course, it used…
The Shard of Glass is London’s tallest building so it only seemed right to show the entire structure. Shame that lady walked past, but then you don’t see that many yellow coats these days. I haven’t been to the viewing…
For The Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill;…
The St Jude Storm of 2013. A storm expected to be so powerful that it was named after the Patron Saint of Lost Causes. Not even the storm of 1987 was given a name until after it had passed, and…
I visit Bodiam Castle frequently as my daughter likes it there. I normally have my camera with me, but struggle to come up with photographs that are different from what I’ve taken before. Long term readers of this site will…
This photo of an Avro Lancaster Bomber over Eastbourne was taken during the town’s 2013 Airbourne show. Its fly past was accompanied by a Spitfire and a Hurricane and was, with the possible exception of the Red Arrows, the highlight…
Technically this photo of Bexhill-on-Sea was taken from the roof of the building at the foot of Galley Hill, but that information was too long to use as a post title. Bexhill-on-Sea likely came into being when King Offa granted…
Polesden Lacey is a fine Edwardian House near Great Bookham in Surrey. The place has been grand estate since at least the 1300’s, but it was really Margaret Greville who made the house famous. Her parents were working class, but…
This photo of grass and sky was taken whilst walking over the hills that over look the Cuckmere Estuary. It didn’t really fit into that post so I thought I’d leave it for another time. Walking up the hill, the…
Hurst Castle is situated on a spit of land that extends out from Milford-on-Sea. At it’s furthest edge the shingle bank is less than a mile away from the Isle of Wight. This then makes it an ideal place to…
