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, …
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 …
Sounds of City & Country: Two Picks from the Dead Albatross Prize
WORDS: Gareth E Rees I’m honoured to be on the judging panel of the Dead Albatross Prize 2015. Originally set up …
Streatham Common Boundary Ditch
LOCATION: London WORDS: Ben Austwick Streatham Common Boundary Ditch Rivers of the southern Thames basin, the Wandle and the Graveney …
The Dying Lady of Soho
LOCATION: Soho, London WORDS: Will Burns interviewing Robert Rubbish Robert Rubbish is an artist and filmmaker based in London and hailing …
This Other London Storywalk – Myths and Legends of Finsbury, Pentonville & Barnsbury
LOCATION: London In this video, John Rogers uses the power of Google Street View to take you on a narrated …
Folklorists and Antiquarians
Landscape artist Maxim Griffin, as featured in this very wobbly Unofficial Britain profile, has made some postcards for The Travin …
Rectogeography: A Journey Up My Own Arse
By Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: The Human Body Times past, I’d go to the doctor with a health complaint. Stomach …
Memories in the Woodchip: The Day I Moved into a Haunted House
On the day we moved into a dilapidated Victorian town house in Hastings, my wife’s grandfather died. But death was …
A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes
Jetsam and Gareth E. Rees [Clay Pipe Music, 2013] A dark sonic journey through the edgelands of London, mixing spoken …