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
The Supermarket Car Park Fugue
On The London Ear show on Resonance FM, Unofficial Britain’s editor Gareth E. Rees reads from his new book Car …
Fat Balls & A Lost Wedding Ring at a Sheffield Retail Park
Author of Car Park Life, Gareth E. Rees, recounts the sorry tale of his trip to a retail park in Sheffield in which he encounters the Mad Hatter, fat balls, riverside poetry and loses his wedding ring.
Magic & Mystery in the Mundane – An Exploration of Uncanny Places
WORDS & PICTURES: Gareth E. Rees This is an edited Transcript of the talk I gave at the Hastings Storytelling …
Uncanny Landscapes: From Pylon Love & Mad Benches to Car Park Epiphanies
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees EVENT: Uncanny Landscapes at The Hastings Storytelling Festival, November 9th, 7pm, Havelock Road, Hastings (FREE) I’ve been …
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. …
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 …
The Monoliths of Cribbs Causeway Car Park, Bristol
LOCATION: Cribbs Causeway, Bristol WORDS: Gareth E. Rees This is an extract from my new book Car Park Life, out …
Landscape Punk to Supermarket Car Parks: Unofficial Britain Live in Stoke Newington
Unofficial Britain was honoured to host an event at Influx Press’s day at The Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 6th …
The extraordinary thing I discovered in a Plymouth car park
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: Plymouth, Devon This is an early version of a chapter that appears my new book …