Unmitigated England

A Country Lost and a Country Found

Friday, 30 November 2007

The Quiet Caravan

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Gamekeepers leave some odd things lying around. Old oil drums and plastic dustbins for keeping feed in, mouldering timber sheds and somewher...
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Thursday, 29 November 2007

Castles in the Cabbages

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It must have seemed as though England woke up one morning in 1940 to find the countryside suddenly littered with anti-tank barricades, vehic...
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007

Railway Echo No 5

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A very evocative find out on the fens. An abandoned railway carriage sits at a deserted platform as if having collapsed on its final run up ...
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Monday, 26 November 2007

Harbouring Thoughts

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All the horrible stuff going on in a Margate back garden reminded me that I'd been there once. Veering away from Dreamland and the pleas...
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Creaking Oars

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Old boathouses are wonderfully evocative places. Once alive to the sound of laughter as the picnic baskets of house guests were loaded into ...
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Sunday, 25 November 2007

Sunday's End

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Merchant Ivory films tend to get judged as 'Laura Ashley dramas'. Comments which are as obtuse as they are ignorant. So after a magn...
Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Glass in the Face

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I learn from the inestimable 'Piloti' in Private Eye that the oafish Abingdon Council in Oxfordshire want to put a glass lift up to...
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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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