Unofficial Britain
A new book by Gareth E. Rees, published by Elliott & Thompson. ‘Terrific… Britain’s urban landscape is just as freighted …
Alternative Soundtracks to a Luxury Apartments Advert
Front & Follow release music in response to an excruciating commercial for Deansgate Square Flats in Manchester
From Tarmac to Towpath: Excursions into Lockdown
A catalogue of lockdown by Neil Jackson
Elegy for an Industrial Estate flattened to make way for Luxury Apartments
A new film by Martin Fuller, with music by Pett Level Sounds, explores a vanishing way of life
The Tragedy of the Hastings U-Boat: a Soundtrack
A new video about the dark events of April 1919, when something monstrous approached the beach of Hastings
Re-weirding the Urban Landscape
Gareth E. Rees discusses the future folklore of industrial estates, pylons, motorways, ring roads, hospitals, housing estates, roundabouts and flyovers
Tales from a Covidian Landscape
These new images by photographer Nigel Dawson capture the eeriness of the Covid 19 landscape
Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: A Conversation with Painter, Jen Orpin
Gareth E. Rees & Jen Orpin discuss the memories and mythology of roads, motorways and service stations
A Yorkshire ‘Goonies’ Adventure Inside the Secret Tunnel of Holden Park
Patrick Wray recounts a childhood trip into the subterranean ruins of Oakworth House
Shadowlands: Light and Darkness on the Urban Edge
In Nigel Dawson’s photographic mutations of the everyday, human ghosts lurk within shadowy high-rise housing estates, derelict buildings and industrial edgelands.
Unofficial Britain’s Weird & Eerie Landscape Reads of 2020
Unofficial Britain’s editor, Gareth E. Rees, recommends some haunting books about place, memory and culture.
White Tents in the Car Park: A Covid 19 Despatch from Kent
Emilia Ong on the chilling vision of a Covid testing centre in a Margate car park