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Memory, place and continuity in the Yorkshire Dales
Architectural Photographer in a time-travelling camper van. 📸🚐🏛️ Architecture, Travel, History, Place, Material Culture.
Memory, place and continuity in the Yorkshire Dales
It is quite an unnerving experience: having a C15th perpendicular font lodged on top of your coffee table. It's fully accessible - can be sketched, viewed and painted from every angle - all from your sofa.
I just love buildings like this: standing proud, gnarled and weather-beaten with a layered and textured patina that sees one epoch crash into another. Ghost gables abound, and walls that were once inside are now outside.
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Pershore Abbey is a hidden gem. You can spend a delightful day there exploring the abbey and the town which has some wonderful Regency brick architecture (and a few timber-framed delights).
The Abbey Church of Holy Cross or Pershore Abbey has a wonderful vaulted interior of the C13th with tierceron vaults that explode like fireworks.
Because I work from a camper van, I’m used to the odd flannel wash, and there has been occasions where I’ve missed that procedure all together...