In a Lonely Place: A Return to the Berney Arms

A return to Berney Arms, via what is perhaps East Anglia's most remote train station. The weather was unseasonably cold: the pub has closed: the landscape expansive.

Abandoned Boozers of Norwich #11: The Kimberley Arms

Returning to one of my earliest themes on Eastscapes: the decline of the good old traditional boozer. Whilst on the edge of Norwich's student land, I only ever called in here once: one Christmas Eve afternoon, by myself, waiting for my girlfriend to finish work in the city. There were about half a dozen regulars drinking, with the staff, from a multipack of cheap canned lager placed brazenly on the bar. I ordered a pint of John Smiths, was on the receiving end of a few suspicious looks, drank up swiftly, and headed off again.

Don't Go Outside There are Monsters

Somnambulism

The stage of Norwich's Theatre Royal ahead of a performance of 'The Blue Notebooks' and the 90-minute edit of 'Sleep,' by the Max Richter Ensemble. As with, seemingly, most of the audience, I did nod off at points, lulled into trippy, strange, dreamy fragments of subconsciousness.

Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2016: Dawn in Chapelfield Gardens

It's festival time in Norwich once again. This is dawn in Chapelfield Gardens, after a day of activities, events, and music.