Shopping for identity: a trip down Norwood Road
You can tell a lot about a place from the local shops.
Especially on Norwood Road.
A vision from the top deck: The Moorgate Lighthouse
From the top deck of a bus on Moorgate, on the facade of a bank, I once saw a lighthouse sculpted into the corner of the building. It seemed strikingly beautiful and strangely out of place. I couldn’t help wondering who put it there and why…
Into the Narroways – a landscape of words
Landscapes, imagined and remembered, have always played a central role in literature.
The fascinating relationship between writers and the British landscape is currently explored in a new exhibition at The British Library: Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands. Here are some thoughts it inspired.
