Unmitigated England

A Country Lost and a Country Found

Thursday, 23 August 2007

Underfoot 2

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The Victorian age is like an enormous shout, the echoes of which still rebound around us. Railway stations, waterworks, civil and commercial...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Thatcher's England

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The phrase 'Unmitigated England' comes from John Betjeman's poem Great Central Railway Sheffield Victoria to Banbury . He was in...
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Railway Echo No 2

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I came across this level crossing gate on a lane in Fordham, Norfolk. I would imagine the hedgerow has now completely obliterated it, reclai...
Monday, 20 August 2007

Posting Dilemma

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I've always had a thing about post boxes, and tend to photograph them all the time on my travels. Apart from being very graphic objects-...
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Thursday, 16 August 2007

Railway Echo No 1

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In the fields at the back of my cottage there is a hefty-looking embankment running across the landscape. Part of the remains of a railway l...
Friday, 10 August 2007

Market Forces

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Borough Market in Southwark is one of my favourite places in London. Particularly on a Friday lunchtime when not only is there a bewildering...
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Mirror Image

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Genuine pub mirrors are getting rarer. They were always vulnerable to someone putting a pint glass or somebody's head through them, and ...
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Peter Ashley
I am a designer, writer and photographer who spends all his time looking at England, particularly buildings and the countryside. But I have a leaning towards the slightly odd and neglected, the unsung elements that make England such an interesting place to live in. I am the author and photographer of over 25 books, in particular Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2006), More from Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2007), Cross Country (Wiley 2011), The Cigarette Papers (Frances Lincoln 2012), Preposterous Erections (Frances Lincoln 2012) and English Allsorts (Adelphi 2015)
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