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Vintage festival

The rain comes down on festival goers at Vintage Goodwood. The three day event celebrated fashions, music and design of the 1940s through to the 1980s. Camping and light mud clashed with sculpted hair dos, evening frocks, suits and stillettos. Looking around, I thought the 1940s Land Girl style was a clever choice of outfitContinue reading “Vintage festival”

Surprise wildlife

During a day out walking in the Kent countryside, we came across Eagle Heights Wildlife Park. Within a moment, I found myself watching a display of eagles, storks and a cheetah against the backdrop of wheat fields and villages. After the visit, which involved looking at many eagles, owls, snakes, lizards and porcupines, we walkedContinue reading “Surprise wildlife”

Airmail envelope

The lightweight, blue and red airmail envelope is hardly used anymore, replaced by the sending of emails which is quicker, cheaper and easier than posting a letter. It is set still more firmly in the past with it’s Woolworths branding and price tag. For more on packaging, see categories >>

Smoke houses

Smoke houses in Hastings on the South Coast of England and in Mallaig on the West Coast of Scotland.

Beach fashion

Rock Dispenser

The New Decor exhibition is on at the Hayward Gallery. In the show, sculptures and installations ‘take interior design as a point of departure’. German artist Nicola Werners has made a perspex bench which encases a row of boulders, each a different rock. She has also made an edition of ‘Rock Dispensers’. A dispenser is ratherContinue reading “Rock Dispenser”

Bath Spa

Bottled thermal spring water, not for drinking, a souvenir of Bath Spa.

Epsom Salts

We found the well at the centre of a radiating development of low houses. It was enclosed in a newly designed monument and surrounded by lavender. This was the source of the famous Epsom Spa. Henry Wicker, a villager, was grazing his cows on the common during the very dry summer of 1618. He sawContinue reading “Epsom Salts”

Eruption Volcanique a la Martinique 1902 – Georges Méliès

Photos by Edward Burtinsky

Photographer Edward Burtinksy was recommended to me by a client. Having visited Peak District quarries last winter, I was impressed by the Quarry and Mines series. >> Edward Burtinksy’s website