The English Seaside: Postcards from The Edge

The English Seaside: Postcards from The Edge

The English Seaside: Postcards from The Edge Travels at Home: Postcards From The Edge – For some time now I’ve wanted to find an image that would illustrate at a glance the notion of travelling at home, in my case the faded old seaside town of St Leonards-on-Sea and...
A Curious Connection – JMW Turner and the Bicycle

A Curious Connection – JMW Turner and the Bicycle

A Curious Connection – JMW Turner and the Bicycle I like to think that if JMW Turner ever painted a cycling scene he might have come up with something like this. Alas, he never did. Turner died in 1851, some thirty-four years before another Englishman, John Kemp...
Modernist Shelter 1930s,  St Leonard’s-on-Sea

Modernist Shelter 1930s, St Leonard’s-on-Sea

Modernist Shelter 1930s, St Leonard’s-on-Sea We might be at 51ºN here along the Sussex coast, but thanks to the warm waters of the Gulf Stream we are blessed with a climate that allows us to have ornamental palm trees growing along our seaside promenades –...
Last Call, Warm Summer’s Night, Bexhill-on-Sea

Last Call, Warm Summer’s Night, Bexhill-on-Sea

Last Call, Warm Summer’s Night, Bexhill-on-Sea As anyone who follows my travels at home would know, I am a creature of the early morning hours – nearly always on the road by 4:30am and often much earlier during the summer months. Early morning hours suit...
Pastels at Dawn, Old Marsh Road, East Sussex

Pastels at Dawn, Old Marsh Road, East Sussex

Pastels at Dawn, Old Marsh Road, East Sussex I can appreciate an overblown histrionic sunrise as much as anyone – the sky ablaze in a suite of scarlets and golds and the newly risen sun’s rays shooting over the landscape, deepening the colours and casting...