Unofficial Britain
A new book by Gareth E. Rees, published by Elliott & Thompson. ‘Terrific… Britain’s urban landscape is just as freighted …
Unofficial Britain’s Weird and Wonderful Reads 2022
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I’ve had an insanely busy year. It began with me finalising my debut short story collection, …
Climate Change, Ecological Breakdown & Neoliberal Anxiety in the English Edgelands
LOCATION: Southern England WORDS: Gareth E. Rees, author of Unofficial Britain “Global warming had gone past the tipping point, the …
Newcastle’s Haunted Alley: The Mysterious Origins of The White Lady of the Quayside.
Joe Barton and Jack Gardner search for the true life origins of a dockside spectre
Edgeland Visions: Heraldic Relics from an Imaginary Time
In advance of his exhibition in Margate, Matt James Healy shares his abstract visions of a world on the edge
Beer Cans, Wildflowers and a Dead Dog’s Ashes – A Dream Life Beneath the Pylon of Hackney Marsh
With the remains of his dead dog in a cardboard tube, Gareth E. Rees returns to the pylon that sparked his edgeland obsession
A Murdered Cyclist on the Pevensey Levels
In this film, Gareth E. Rees revisits the site of the strange murder in his new book, Terminal Zones
A Walk Through the Pre-Industrial Landscape of Heathrow’s Hinterland
Marcus Liddell explores the semi-rural environs of London’s largest airport
The Incident of the Blindfolded Hypnotist and the Ilford Car Crash
Dan Carney tells the little-known tale of a very unusual car crash in 1977
The Sperm Whale and the Volvo 245
WORDS & PICTURES: Peter Riley – this is an extract from his book, Strandings (Profile Books, 2022) When I was …
A High Speed Car Tour of the Tennent’s Brewery, 1986
LOCATION: Glasgow WORDS: Gareth E. Rees From the 1960s until the 1980s, my late grandfather, George Wright, was a sales …
Ghosts of the Motorway
A haunting new video for a modern motorway ballad evokes memories of journeys past