Britain uncovered

Gareth E. Rees discusses the future folklore of industrial estates, pylons, motorways, ring roads, hospitals, housing estates, roundabouts and flyovers

These new images by photographer Nigel Dawson capture the eeriness of the Covid 19 landscape

Gareth E. Rees & Jen Orpin discuss the memories and mythology of roads, motorways and service stations

Patrick Wray recounts a childhood trip into the subterranean ruins of Oakworth House

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 editor, Gareth E. Rees, recommends some haunting books about place, memory and culture.