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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 -
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The Tyranny of the Horizon by Laurence Mitchell
Originally posted on BURNING HOUSE PRESS:
“A frontier region… the resort of brigands and bandits” – Sir Clifford Darby, from The Medieval Fenland Two summers ago I walked coast to coast across England and Wales, from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk…
Posted in Human Geography, Norfolk, Walking, wildlife
Tagged Burning House Press, Cambridgeshire, Fens, landscape, Lincolnshire, psychogeography, Situationists, Wisbech
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Marshland
The far west of Norfolk between Terrington St John and Walsoken on the Cambridgeshire border is often referred to as Fen country but technically it is part of the Norfolk Marshland. John Seymour in his Companion Guide to East Anglia (1970) … Continue reading
Posted in Norfolk, Walking
Tagged Eastern Europe, Farming, Fens, John Seymour, landscape, Marshland
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Whittlesea Straw Bear
If you venture to Whittlesea, at the edge of the Fens near Peterborough, during the second weekend in January you cannot help but notice that strange straw animals and oddly attired people have taken over the streets of this small market … Continue reading
Posted in Folklore, History
Tagged Cambridgeshire, England, English folk tradition, Fens, Molly dancing, Straw Bear, Whittlesea, Whittlesey
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