A glimmer of hope on a street corner: Tritton Vale Pocket Garden

How a once-derelict patch of ground, is helping to galvanise a community in one corner of South London.

A futile list of sounds (with an explanation of sorts)

It doesn’t take much to make a familiar place unfamiliar. A change in the weather – rain, bright sunshine, or more dramatically, snowfall or fog can all do it. Smells too – who hasn’t found themselves aware of sniffing more consciously than normal when drains are blocked, or there’s a whiff of barbecue, bonfire or worse in the air?

And then of course there are a place’s distinctive sounds.

The Road to One Tree Hill: Part 2

Often its an image, or sense, of the physical presence of a place that draws me to it, but in the case of One Tree Hill, it was the name that attracted me.

A name that seemed so impossibly resonant that I had to see for myself whether the actual hill could ever live up to it.