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Outer Space Travel In Manchester’s Makro
LOCATION: Manchester WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I only remember Makro because of its car park, the space outside the place. …
Pier Pressure: Matchbook etiquette and Dizzee Rascal’s Birthday Cake
LOCATION: Hastings, East Sussex WORDS: Ben Thompson Piers are by definition irrational structures – temporary institutions, neither sea, nor land, …
The Cornish Lost Kingdom & The Oil Spill: A Catastrophic Soundscape
LOCATION: Cornwall ALBUM: Kemper Norton, ‘Toll’ LABEL: Front and Follow WORDS: Gareth E. Rees Kemper Norton’s new concept album brings …
Enon Chapel: death, horror and dancing in Victorian London
LOCATION: London WORDS: Alex Cochrane Victorian London was a charnel house of the dead; a city oozing horror and nowhere …
And Also the Trees: Born Into The Waves (An appreciation)
WORDS: Justin Hopper Born Into the Waves is a series of offerings, not of events; of settings, not actions. It …
On the Trail of the Green Man: An interview with Nina Lyon
WORDS: Gary Budden I spoke to author Nina Lyon about her latest book Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green …
The Helm Wind of Cumbria
LOCATION: Cumbria WORDS & IMAGES: Eijls ‘When heard and felt for the first time it does not seem so very …
Notes from the Moor & Soggy Scribbles
LOCATION: Yorkshire WORDS & PICTURES: Maxim Griffin ABOUT THE ARTIST: Maxim Peter Griffin is a landscape artist, cartographer and walker …
Archaeology Now (or What I found when I was looking for the Bronze Age on Skeleton Hill)
LOCATION: Lincolnshire WORDS & PICTURES: Maxim Griffin Striking out on a bright Friday in March – I’ve got a …
An Unreliable Guide to London
LOCATION: Erm…. WORDS: Gareth E Rees If you’re a regular reader of Unofficial Britain, you’ll know that I like to …