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Fieldgate Street
WORDS: Bobby Seal IMAGES: David Hoffman [© David Hoffman] Children playing in the courtyard of the squatted tenement in Fieldgate Mansions, Aug 1985. © David Hoffman Introduction: When I was a student...
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Fat Balls & A Lost Wedding Ring at a Sheffield Retail Park
LOCATION: Sheffield WORDS: Gareth E. Rees Sheffield University is my alma mater. I studied English Literature there from ’92 until ’95. It was a period of great disruption. The Supertram was under...
View ArticleAs the Crow Flies: Cross City Walks in Birmingham
1. Take a map of a city 2. Draw a straight line from one side of the city to the opposite side, passing through the centre 3. Walk this line In the winter of 2014/15, Andy Howlett and Pete Ashton...
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The Business Park in the Marsh: Post-Brexit Wanders in Grimsby’s Europarc
WORDS & PHOTOS: Gareth E Rees LOCATION: Grimsby, Lincolnshire My book, Unofficial Britain, explores the mythology and lore of industrial estates, electricity pylons, motorways, housing estates,...
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Shadowlands: Light and Darkness on the Urban Edge
PHOTOGRAPHY: Nigel Dawson MUSIC: Chris Ashton LOCATIONS: London & Sheffield Unofficial Britain is proud to present a selection of films by artist Nigel Dawson, sound-tracked by Chris Ashton. In...
View ArticleLandscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: A Conversation with Painter, Jen Orpin
WORDS: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: A motorway near you Last month I took part in ‘Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure’, an online event for the Modernist Society & Manchester school of...
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Tales from a Covidian Landscape
ARTWORK: Nigel Dawson The lockdown restrictions are beginning to lift, but what effect has this had on our sense of place and community? How will empty streets and distanced people feature in our...
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Unearthing Sacred Narratives: Bede’s Walk
WORDS & PICTURES: Mark Adams – from his project Peregrinus – Bede’s Walk The images in ‘Peregrinus – Bede’s Walk’ depict a series of walks along Bede’s Way, an historical path in the north east of...
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Occult Lampposts
WORDS & PICTURES: Gareth E. Rees LOCATION: A street near you The smooth metal surfaces of Britain’s streetlights are a prime canvas for graffiti, coded messages and promotional stickers. Spread...
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A Journey Through The Ancient Commons of the Bristol Ring Road
LOCATION: Bristol, England WORDS & PICTURES: Andy Thatcher Eastern Bristol is speckled with commons. Go way, way back and this whole area was part of the Kingswood Forest, a royal Anglo Saxon...
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