Author
Laurence Mitchell
Writer and photographer based in Norwich, UKMarch 2021 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -
Recent Posts
Author Archives: East of Elveden
Fogbound: Heacham to Old Hunstanton
Earlier this week we walked from Heacham to Old Hunstanton along the seawall. To say that it was a bit foggy would be an understatement as the whole of northwest Norfolk lay shivering under a thick blanket of dense fog … Continue reading
Posted in Norfolk, Walking, wildlife
Tagged carstone, chalk, fog, Heacham, Hunstanton, Old Hunstanton cliffs, The Wash
5 Comments
Irkutsk
Ten years ago, when travel was altogether an easier undertaking, I travelled by train to Siberia. Following the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and taking a few detours along the way, I eventually got as far as Lake Baikal before … Continue reading
Abandoned Ferris wheel
Ferris wheel, Toktogul, Kyrgyzstan One of the enduring images from Pripyat, the main town in Ukraine’s Chernobyl disaster region, is that of an abandoned amusement park. A totem for the fall from innocence, here are rides that children once played … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Cities, Travel
Tagged Bishkek, crows, Ferris wheel, Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union, Toktogul
2 Comments
To the Lighthouse
They are taking the lighthouse down. It was really just a matter of time. Time and tide, it is said, wait for no man, and the two make for a powerful combination on this rapidly changing shoreline. The Orford lighthouse … Continue reading
Posted in History, Suffolk, Uncategorized
Tagged cooling towers, lighthouse, Mostar, Orford Ness, psychogeography, Sheffield, Syria, W G Sebald
23 Comments
The Shrieking Pits
Tucked away in the north Norfolk coastal hinterland, close to the villages of Overstrand and Northrepps, is a group of small ponds known as the Shrieking Pits. More of the same can also be found a few miles further west … Continue reading
Posted in Folklore, Norfolk
Tagged ghosts, iron, legend, medieval, North Norfolk, Northrepps, Shrieking Pits
12 Comments
The Mountains of Persia
There is a bar in Belgrade called the World Traveller’s Club. It is in the basement of an apartment block in the city centre and to gain entrance you are required to ring the door bell at street level and … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, film, Travel
Tagged Belgrade, Coronavirus, Persia, Serbia, Slow travel, World Traveller's Club, Yugoslavia
14 Comments
Winter Light
Even in winter, the northeast Norfolk coast has its attractions, especially over the Christmas and New Year period when many flock here to see the grey seals that come to the beaches of Winterton and Horsey to give birth. For … Continue reading
Blakean Spirit
I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. William Blake London Last week I paid a visit to London to go and … Continue reading
Posted in art, Cities, History, Literature
Tagged Bunhill Fields, John Clare, London, poetry, William Blake
2 Comments
All Fall Down
Two weeks ago I read a news article about the demolition of the cooling towers at Ironbridge on the River Severn in Shropshire. Their final demise was witnessed by many who came to see the four great towers collapsing after … Continue reading
Posted in History, Midlands, Northern England
Tagged cooling towers, Industrial Revolution, iron, Ironbridge, Shropshire, Yorkshire
4 Comments
The Crossing Place
A pinch of the River Clyde; a squeezing of the water that flows west through Glasgow towards the sea; a watery place where shipyards once dominated the shoreline and the air shook with the hammering of rivets, the scrape and … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, History, Scotland
Tagged churches, Glasgow, Govan, gravestones, Hen Ogledd, River Clyde, shipbuilding, Strathclyde, Zaha Hadid
11 Comments