TULIPS

SILVER BIRCHES, WESTERHAM, KENT

RAPE SEED FIELD, GODSTONE

Well, no collection of photographs can be complete without recourse to a tub of vaseline......

CROCKHAM HILL, KENT

CROCKHAM HILL, KENT

CROCKHAM HILL, KENT

NATURAL SCULPURE , CROCKHAM HILL , KENT

CROCKHAM HILL, KENT

These shots were taken a year before the Great Storm of 1987. Crockham Hill is situated near to Chartwell, Churchill's country house. The area was badly hit during the hurricane.

BEACHY HEAD, EASTBOURNE

SELENA & MISCHA (THECAT ), SANDERSTEAD, SURREY

GOLDEN HINDE, BRIGHTON MARINA

The Golden Hind was named after Sir Christopher Hatton's coat of arms - a hind being an heraldic doe. At launch the ship was known as the Pelican but Sir Francis Drake, the ship's captain, rechristened it whilst about to enter the Straits of Magellan, (the fabled natural passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and subsequently acceeded to by the Panama Canal), as a mark of respect to the journey's patron. This is a shot of the replica which was launched in 1973. Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577 - 80 whilst the replica has travelled some 140,000 miles and has also circumnavigated the world. Hatton's name is better remembered for his association with diamonds - Hatton Gardens is named after him.
The new Golden Hind is permanently berthed in southwark.
This is a picture about mobility....

BRIAN,PUTANGES, NORMANDY,

I greatly admire of the work of a British photographer called Tony Ray-Jones. Tragically he died in 1972 at the age of thirty one from Leukaemia. Despite his tender years he still managed to cover a lot of ground photographically - even getting a scholarship to Yale University where he came into contact with the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz and from whom
Ray-Jones' later work would be influenced. Back in Britain he spent five years documenting
the English way of life through leisure and festival celebration - before we became too Americanised - a fear that seems to originate further and further back in time. Anyway, I think
there is plenty of scope for this work to continue and whilst I can't compare my work with the depth and breadth of Tony Ray-Jones' I hope that something of the flavour of Englishness comes through these few images.

BRANDS HATCH, KENT

SOUTH NORWOOD , LONDON

HAWORTH MOOR , YORKSHIRE

HAWORTH, BRONTE PARSONAGE

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte lived in Haworth Parsonage from 1820 to the end of their lives. The major works produced in that time were Jane Eyre (1847), Wuthering Heights (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). Between the years 1801 and 1851 the population grew by 118 percent to 3,365. A small town with no sanitation and polluted water contributed to high mortality rates. Between 1840 and 1850 there were 1,344 burials in the churchyard. The average lifespan was 25 years and 41 percent of babies died before their sixth birthday. The Bronte's father the Revd. Patrick Bronte had a print of the Victorian painter John Martin's 'The Day of Judgement' hanging on the wall of his study. A large fiery image of the end of the world predating modern film visual effects by some distance - the original can be seen in the Tate Gallery.
Emily died in 1848 at the age of thirty, Anne in 1849 at the age of twenty-nine and Charlotte in 1855 at the age of thirty-eight.

LONDON, BUNHILL FIELDS

From the 1830s larger cemetaries were being created further out from the centre of London. Bunhill Fields is the last of many small burial sites that layed within the confines of the old city.
An estimated 120.000 bodies lie buried in the four acre space. Along with Blake, Daniel Defoe and John Bunyan are also buried here. Since saxon times this area has been associated with burial, the name being derived from the term 'Bone Hill'.

LONDON, BANKSIDE

Probably the best known image of William Shakespeare, the engraving was made by Martin Droeshout for the cover of the commemorative collection of Shakespeare's works or alleged works depending on your neurosis. Shakespeare died in 1616 when Droeshout was about fifteen. Therefore did he source from an earlier image or did he compile the work from descriptions given by John Heminges and Henry Condell who were behind the creation of the folio. The First Folio was published in 1623.
Heminges and Condell were buried in the medieval churchyard of St Mary Aldermanbury which was burnt down in the Great Fire and replaced by a Wren design. Wren's church was exported, after WW2, and rebuilt in Missouri, USA, as a memorial to Churchill who had made a speech in 1946 at Westminster College, Fulton. A small garden to the west of the Guildhall now marks the site.

BRIGHTON BEACH, WEST PIER

Of course the pier does not exist anymore but for those
who have never seen the full grandeur enjoy......

GORING BEACH, SOUTH COAST