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Kent
Nothing With Nothing: A Lonely Drift Down Marine Drive, Margate
Emilia Ong’s meditation on alienation and strangeness on a walk by the amusement arcades of a British seaside town
Baleen
WORDS: Gary Budden LOCATION: Kent There was all the stuff you’d expect; heart lungs liver kidneys etc. Baleen thick and …
Port Lympne: Matrimony at the Fascist Zoo
LOCATION: Kent WORDS & PICTURES: Kit Caless One gentle morning the post arrived when I was working from home. I …
A Palaeolithic Invocation at Barnfield Pit, Kent
LOCATION: Swanscombe, north-west Kent MUSIC: Hand of Stabs Unofficial Britain is delighted to share another site-specific performance by the experimental sound collective Hand …
Mock Rock in Ramsgate
LOCATION: Ramsgate WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I was on a trip to Ramsgate with the kids at the weekend. Approaching …
Specifics: Thoughts on birds and birdwatching
LOCATION: Kent WORDS: Gary Budden The sky is moody and grey. We park up in a windy carpark by Reculver towers, …
Ossuary English and Hythe’s ‘Human Lasagne’
LOCATION: Kent WORDS: Ben Thompson The 13th Century church of St Leonard’s occupies the kind of hillside position – looking …
Dieback
Unofficial Britain is pleased to host new fiction, for those with time to spare for a longer read. Today, a …
The Medway Megaliths & the Phantoms of Blue Bell Hill
LOCATION: Kent WORDS: Gary Budden Mention the words megalith and Neolithic to many people and they will instantly think (unless …
Beowulf in Faversham? In search of a Kentish Grendel
LOCATION: Kent WORDS & PICTURES by GARY BUDDEN It’s a compelling thought.; the monster Grendel inhabiting the bleak marshlands of the …