🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The Brick Fields of Hightown, Merseyside.

I’m told that the bricks (amongst other later demolished sites) were deposited here after the blitz of Liverpool - swept up from the bomb-pitted terraced houses and trucked onto the beach. I think of the occupants and the shock of losing their homes and loved ones. The walls they kissed against, threw balls against, are now fragments on the shoreline.

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The gazetteer is my personal collection of material treasures. It’s a growing map of wonders that I’ve spent over forty years documenting. The treasures that I list here are not of any monetary value, but far more valuable.

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