Oxford
32 photos
Buckinghamshire churches and churchyards
16 photos
Oxfordshire (misc.)
12 photos
Oxfordshire churches and churchyards
40 photos
Children's memorials
46 photos
Totem poles
21 photos
Birds in art
104 photos
Poppies
33 photos
Real and artificial
Bizarre benches and seats
22 photos
Cats in art
24 photos
Perhaps not as popular as dogs as subjects, but they deserve some recognition.
Cardinal Wolsey
27 photos
The legacy of Ipswich's most famous son
Food Museum, Stowmarket
30 photos
Formerly the Museum of East Anglian Life
Art from recycled materials
21 photos
Ronald Searle
18 photos
Creator of St Trinians, maker of images for Nigel Molesworth, and much more.
PAWS-itivity
22 photos
Labrador figures in Suffolk libraries, summer 2023
Fullers Mill Garden
19 photos
7-acre garden near West Stow, Suffolk, managed by the horticultural charity Perennial
What the Dickens?
17 photos
Helmingham Hall sculpture exhibition 2023
38 photos
In aid of breast cancer charity Art for Cure.
Nowton Park
34 photos
Public park near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Millennium markers
25 photos
Beach huts
15 photos
Ivy and Virginia creeper
47 photos
Rochester
54 photos
North Kent
66 photos
Invasion Colchester 2022
16 photos
Annual take-over by pop-culture figures in aid of local health charities.
Sutton Hoo
105 photos
The famous Saxon burial site, near Woodbridge, Suffolk
Re-enactors
180 photos
Signs and notices
113 photos
The Big Hoot 2022
90 photos
Art trail, Ipswich, Suffolk, featuring some truly awful puns
Subways and underpasses
21 photos
Cranes
35 photos
The mechanical kind.
"Weird & Wonderful Wood"
27 photos
Art and craft event held at Haughley Park, near Wetherden, and based mainly around - well - wood.
Blakenham Woodland Garden
25 photos
London oddities
44 photos
Pargeting
23 photos
The art of decorative plasterwork
Norwich
96 photos
Bells and bellringing
39 photos
The Old Testament (and Apocrypha) in art
50 photos
A time to dance, or a dance to the music of time...
40 photos
The Green Man
20 photos
Either a pagan nature spirit or Mankind trapped in sinful nature - either way, always a striking figure!
"Suffer little children to come unto me"
16 photos
The popular subject of Christ blessing the children, expressed in various media
Derbyshire and the Peak District
123 photos
Time
86 photos
Clocks, watches, sundials, hourglasses etc. ...
Murals
127 photos
Scarecrows
32 photos
Both working and decorative.
Faith, Hope and Charity
15 photos
Images of the three theological virtues
Henry Moore sculptures
42 photos
Mosaics
36 photos
Ancient and modern (mostly modern).
Crosses and crucifixes
115 photos
Devils and demons
61 photos
Daffodils
26 photos
Goats - in life and art
25 photos
Mermaids, mermen and wildmen
32 photos
Christchurch Park under snow
31 photos
Mud, mud, glorious mud
49 photos
All things Christmassy
173 photos
The Bear Necessities
44 photos
Jonathan Clarke, sculptor
11 photos
British sculptor, working in sand-cast aluminium.
Somerleyton Hall
48 photos
Currently (2020) only the gardens are open to the public.
Fountains
75 photos
Both dormant and active
Queen Boudica / Boudicca / Boadicea
16 photos
Representations of the 1st-century East Anglian warrior queen
Twyning
16 photos
Tewkesbury Abbey
19 photos
Worcester Cathedral
31 photos
Witley Court
42 photos
Worcestershire country house built by Lord Dudley, gutted by fire in 1937, now in the care of English Heritage.
Worcestershire and the Malverns
127 photos
Ingatestone Hall
27 photos
16th-century manor house near Chelmsford, Essex, still in the possession of the family of its builder, Sir William Petre, Secretary of State to four Tudor monarchs.
Talbot Trail
14 photos
Mini-bronze sculptures representing aspects of Sudbury's history and heritage.
Norman art and architecture
88 photos
Dogs in art
63 photos
Passageways and corridors
45 photos
Eye
36 photos
Ben Platts-Mills, sculptor
18 photos
1948-2014
Little Ouse Headwaters Project
25 photos
Locally-based conservation charity's site on the Norfolk / Suffolk border between Thelnetham and Blo' Norton
Kings and queens
71 photos
In art, design, popular culture and reenactments - anything but the real thing, I'm afraid!
Bench ends, poppy heads and misericords
135 photos
All human and non-human, natural and supernatural life is here.
Art at your convenience!
10 photos
Bury St Edmunds
77 photos
Suffolk's cathedral town
Gulls
23 photos
The ever-present fish-and-chip scavengers.
Aldeburgh
89 photos
Lavenham
46 photos
Llamas and alpacas
9 photos
Oops - anyone remembered the pan-pipes?
Scanned photos - Barcelona, March 1998
21 photos
Cattle
21 photos
The Shell Line
14 photos
Begun in 2005 by two friends, Lida Kindersley and Els Bottema while both undergoing (successful) breast cancer treatment, as a symbol of friendship, and to mark the site as their "healing...
Leiston Abbey
27 photos
Ruins of 14th-century abbey of Premonstratensian canons, near Theberton, Suffolk
Southwold
67 photos
Vintage illustrators
80 photos
Half-timbering
52 photos
Timber-framed buildings, mostly dating from the C15th to the C17th.
Blossoms
58 photos
Arger Fen & Spouse's Vale
21 photos
Suffolk Wildlife Trust nature reserve near Bures
Journal of a plague year
39 photos
Surviving the 2020-21 Coronavirus outbreak
Pillboxes and other WWII-era defences
55 photos
Lichen and moss
94 photos
Mainly on tombstones
Edward Ardizzone, illustrator
28 photos
1900 - 1979
Newbourne Springs
33 photos
Suffolk Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve
Baroque memorials
118 photos
The most flamboyant style of all.
Hazlewood Marshes
18 photos
Suffolk Wildlife Trust nature reserve, near Aldeburgh
"Field for the British Isles"
12 photos
Antony Gormley's collaborative 1993 terracotta sculpture comprising 40,000 figures, on display at Firstsite, Colchester, Essex, November 2019
Coffins and coffin lids
15 photos
On the Kiddylit trail
54 photos
Sites and sights connected with children's books
Roman Theatre, Orange
11 photos
A UNESCO World Heritage site.
Orange, Provence, France.
The Pont du Gard
35 photos
The highest Roman aqueduct, near Nimes, Provence
Avignon
93 photos
Including Villeneuve-les-Avignon
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
35 photos
Perry Green, Hertfordshire, UK
Return to Marks Hall
45 photos
Back to the gardens and arboretum near Coggeshall, Essex, for the 2019 sculpture exhibition.
Christchurch, Dorset
45 photos
Winchester
37 photos
Mottisfont
33 photos
Country house on the site of an Augustinian priory, now in the care of the National Trust
The New Forest
68 photos
Romsey Abbey
25 photos
"Elmer's Big Parade Suffolk"
153 photos
Decorated figures based on Elmer, the patchwork elephant created by children's author / illustrator David McKee, on display in Ipswich in aid of St Elizabeth Hospice.
June - September 2019.
Unusual memorials
43 photos
Knettishall Heath
24 photos
Suffolk Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve, near the Norfolk border
Steam & Vintage Show 2019
26 photos
Stonham Barns Leisure & Shopping Village, Stonham Aspal, Suffolk
Waterloo comes to Ickworth
35 photos
Shirley Hughes, illustrator
42 photos
Childhood in all its grubby, messy, chaotic - and magical - glory
Speke Hall house and gardens
31 photos
Tudor mansion near Liverpool, now in the care of the National Trust
Liverpool
134 photos
Depictions of Parables
31 photos
Have with you to Saffron Walden
37 photos
Herstmonceux Castle grounds and gardens
27 photos
Seven Sisters
30 photos
The famous chalk cliffs near Eastbourne, East Sussex
Bodiam Castle
24 photos
Built in the 1380s by Sir Edward Dallingridge and his wife Elizabeth.
Now in the care of the National Trust.
Bodiam, East Sussex.
Pevensey Castle
18 photos
Norman castle built on the site of a Roman fortress.
Pevensey, East Sussex
Battle Abbey
41 photos
The Benedictine abbey built by William the Conqueror on the (putative) site of the Battle of Hastings.
Battle, East Sussex.
East Sussex and (parts of) Kent
108 photos
Born to Run
31 photos
Well, I wasn't, but clearly many people are.
Nunney Castle
13 photos
Built by Sir John De La Mare (or Delamare) in the 1370s, and damaged by Parliamentary cannon in the English Civil War.
Nunney, Somerset
Felixstowe
178 photos
Brickwork
78 photos
Cheddar Gorge
30 photos
Britain's deepest gorge, in the Mendip Hills, Somerset.
"Minerva's Owls"
16 photos
On display in Bath, 2018, in aid of local charities.
RSPB Minsmere
56 photos
Nature reserve run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, on the Suffolk coast near Dunwich
Mysteries
41 photos
Even (especially?) the internet can't provide answers to everything.
Woodbridge Beowulf Festival
18 photos
Chelmsford
21 photos
County town of Essex
The "Castle on the Hill"
48 photos
AKA Framlingham Castle, Suffolk
The "Beast from the East"
25 photos
Russian winter descends on East Anglia, February 2018
Stafford
16 photos
Chichester
46 photos
County town (and only city) of West Sussex
Fingringhoe Wick
25 photos
Essex Wildlife Trust's first Nature Reserve, on the site of a former sand and gravel quarry at the mouth of the River Colne, near Colchester.
Sculptures in wood
185 photos
Marks Hall Gardens & Arboretum, 2017
71 photos
Grounds of former mansion near Coggeshall, Essex, demolished in 1950 - visited during biennial sculpture exhibition.
The beauty of marble
80 photos
The beauty of bronze
211 photos
Lille
112 photos
Capital of French Flanders
Cressing Temple
25 photos
Former working farm, originally built on land granted to the Knights Templar in the 12th century (hence its name); subsequently owned by the Knights Hospitaller and various farmers and landowners...
Bourne Mill
19 photos
Watermill, south of Colchester, Essex, built in 1591 as a fishing lodge by Sir Thomas Lucas, subsequently used for grinding corn and fulling cloth, and as a private home - now in the care of the...
Storytelling
25 photos
One of the oldest and simplest of art forms, and capable of appealing to all ages.
All kinds of knights
89 photos
Bruges
49 photos
Hampshire
83 photos
Burgh Castle
11 photos
Ruins of a 3rd-century Roman shore fort, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
St George
40 photos
As he is depicted in art and popular culture.
Parkrun
9 photos
Southwick Country Park, Wiltshire
Hogarth, Hogarth everywhere
15 photos
William Hogarth (1697-1764) - one of the few artists to have become an adjective ("Hogarthian")
Justin Todd, illustrator
25 photos
Brecon Beacons
138 photos
Minster Lovell
20 photos
Ruins of hall built by William, seventh Baron Lovell, in the early 15th century, near Witney, Oxfordshire
Sheep may safely graze ...
50 photos
Children's book illustrations (misc.)
184 photos
Beards in art
90 photos
Wiltshire
46 photos
Yarn bombing!
31 photos
Mysterious additions to Cardinal Wolsey's statue and surrounding trees and bollards, St Peters Street, Ipswich - and elsewhere.
"Pigs Gone Wild"
76 photos
Pig figures decorated by various artists (plus smaller figures decorated by schools and community groups) in aid of St Elizabeth Hospice.
Ipswich, summer 2016.
Yorkshire mini-tour
66 photos
Gippeswyk Singers on the road again
Redgrave & Lopham Fen
10 photos
Suffolk Wildlife Trust nature reserve, at the source of the river Waveney
Piers of the Realm
49 photos
Sculpture Garden
14 photos
Sculptures by Ian Marlow, in the grounds of the former
Ebenezer Chapel, Buckland Dinham, Somerset.
Anglesey Abbey
36 photos
Former home of Lord Fairhaven, Cambridgeshire
Windmills & windpumps
50 photos
In East Anglia and elsewhere.
Wicken Fen
14 photos
National Trust-managed wetland near Ely, Cambridgeshire
Boats and barges
200 photos
Seascapes
26 photos
British Museum galleries
30 photos
Chimneys
24 photos
Hadleigh Castle
15 photos
Ruined castle overlooking the Thames estuary near Southend in Essex.
Built in the early 13th century by Hubert de Burgh, earl of Kent, and extensively remodelled by Edward III.
Havens Hospices Corporate Challenge 2015
17 photos
On the Olympic mountain biking course in Hadleigh Park, near Southend, Essex
Ickworth
61 photos
Ancestral home of the Hervey family, Earls and later Marquesses of Bristol, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Landguard Fort
22 photos
Coastal defence at the mouth of the river Orwell, garrisoned from Tudor times until well into the Cold War.
Rendlesham Forest
64 photos
Viewed through the seasons, mainly autumn
Crime / thriller book covers
98 photos
Horror / supernatural book covers
99 photos
Children's book covers
178 photos
River Waveney Sculpture Trail 2015
23 photos
Viewed in the grounds of the River Waveney Study Centre near Earsham, Norfolk, in less-than-idyllic Bank Holiday weather.
Lackford Lakes
33 photos
Former sand and gravel quarries, now a Suffolk Wildlife Trust nature reserve.
Near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Bridges
129 photos
Lichfield Cathedral
25 photos
War memorials
227 photos
Sudbury Hall
12 photos
Ancestral home of the Vernon family, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Croxden Abbey
11 photos
Ruins of a once-prosperous Cistercian abbey, near Uttoxeter in Staffordshire.
Shugborough
24 photos
Ancestral home of the Earls of Lichfield
Wightwick Manor
7 photos
Pronounced "Wittick". Victorian manor house near Wolverhampton, with a wealth of Arts & Crafts and Pre-Raphaelite artworks.
Lilleshall Abbey
10 photos
Ruins of Augustinian priory, near Telford in Shropshire
East Anglian Storytelling Festival 2015
10 photos
Based at the Ship Inn, Blaxhall, Suffolk
Woolpit Steam Rally 2015
20 photos
Images of Jesus (various)
130 photos
Stained glass, painting, sculpture etc.
Tyntesfield and Clevedon Court
34 photos
Two National Trust properties in north Somerset
Spiral stairs
23 photos
Hedingham Castle
43 photos
Norman castle keep, near Halstead, Essex
Ely
43 photos
Shadows and tall trees
52 photos
On the Waterfront
73 photos
... Oh, all right - Ipswich waterfront
Quentin Blake, illustrator
59 photos
Or Sir Quentin Blake, as from the 2013 New Year's Honours list
I'm loving angels instead (well, sort of)
335 photos
Heavenly messengers in all shapes and sizes
Woodbridge
221 photos
Hornby catalogue 1978
6 photos
Evidently it was regarded as purely a boys' toy.
The Saxon legacy
87 photos
In East Anglia, it seems, you're never far from reminders of our Germanic ancestors.
Castle Acre Priory
16 photos
Impressive ruins of Cluniac priory, built c. 1090, near Swaffham, Norfolk
Stow Hall Gardens
13 photos
The gardens of the Hare family at Stow Bardolph, Norfolk, currently (summer 2014) open to the public on Wednesdays.
Castle Rising
17 photos
12th-century castle keep with earthwork, near King's Lynn, Norfolk
Norfolk churches and churchyards
266 photos
London (here and there)
231 photos
"Flower of cities all" - allegedly
Essex (misc.)
377 photos
It's not just TOWIE ...
Ipswich Music Day 2014
15 photos
Dutch weekend
91 photos
First overseas tour by the Gippeswyk Singers
Cross-Channel ferries (going and returning)
10 photos
Hullo clouds, hullo sky
360 photos
Images of cloud formations that caught my eye, mostly over Suffolk
Ruins of St Peter's church
16 photos
Built c. 1300 and destroyed by a fire in 1971.
Alresford, near Colchester, Essex
Jaywick Martello Tower
10 photos
Former coastal defence fort from Napoleonic times, now open to the public and functioning as an arts, heritage and community venue.
Near Clacton, Essex.
Iconoclasm
48 photos
Damage to church images by Puritans and others
Archways and doorways
191 photos
Village signs
203 photos
Pub signs
159 photos
King's College Chapel, Cambridge
33 photos
Cambridgeshire churches & churchyards
196 photos
Lions in art and design
176 photos
Centres of graffiti
65 photos
Examples of graffiti and street art (however you differentiate the two).
A wander down EC3
21 photos
City of London
Southwark Cathedral
8 photos
Toffs' tombs
342 photos
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave
Awaits alike th'inevitable hour:-
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
(Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a...
Church banners, frontals and hangings
160 photos
Tate Britain
27 photos
Millbank, London
Layer Marney Tower
20 photos
Britain's tallest Tudor gatehouse, near Tiptree in Essex
Swans
95 photos
Essex churches & churchyards
548 photos
Orford Castle
32 photos
Built by King Henry II in the 12th century.
Horses (all kinds)
146 photos
Stand Tall for Giraffes
50 photos
A display of fibreglass giraffes set up in Colchester and elsewhere in the region to celebrate Colchester Zoo's 50th birthday (2013) and to raise funds for conservation work. The exhibits include...
Colchester
392 photos
Charles Keeping, illustrator
78 photos
1924 - 1988.
One of the all-time greats.
"Tudor Times: Bloody Mary Returns!"
16 photos
Back to Framlingham Castle for another historical re-enactment: this time of the days of Mary Tudor (though without any burnings at the stake).
"Clash of Knights"
40 photos
Display by The Household Anglo-Norman Living History Society, Milites deBec and crusade-reenactment.co.uk, Bank Holiday Monday, Framlingham Castle, Suffolk.
Brunel's SS Great Britain
25 photos
The first iron steamship (and the first screw-propelled one) to cross the Atlantic (in 1845), now reconstructed in dry dock in Bristol, and open to the public
Stourhead
46 photos
Picture books based on traditional songs
83 photos
Uniting two of my interests: folk music and illustration.
Roman Baths, Bath, UK
19 photos
Church glass
478 photos
Stained, engraved, painted, or just plain
Millennium Bridge and Tate Modern, London
19 photos
Maritime Woodbridge 2012
23 photos
Biennial festival of the sea and sailing, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Ufford Bygones 2012
16 photos
Ufford Bygones & Fun Day, a charity event that was held every July at Ufford, Suffolk from 2002 to 2015, to raise funds for St Elizabeth Hospice in Ipswich
Waiting for the Olympic torch
10 photos
On Cornhill, Ipswich, Thursday evening, July 5 2012
Paul Richardson sculptures
48 photos
Examples of the public art of this Suffolk-based sculptor
Scans
93 photos
Miscellaneous scanned photos from the pre-digital age (well, my pre-digital age, anyway)
Here be monsters
297 photos
Gargoyles, dragons, gorgons, hippogriffs or the plain odd - I love 'em!
Church porches
231 photos
... and the treasures sometimes found there.
Suffolk church interiors
1334 photos
Haughton Christmas lights
20 photos
The village of Haughton, Staffordshire, puts on a spectacular display of Christmas lights each year, raising money for local charities.
Christchurch Park, Ipswich, early morning
24 photos
Hallowe'en
64 photos
Or Halloween if you'd rather
Suffolk churchyards
711 photos
Highgate Cemetery
22 photos
Great Court, British Museum
27 photos
For me, the British Museum will never lose its charm, however crowded it gets.
Norfolk (misc.)
138 photos
Family & friends
128 photos
Suffolk
1901 photos
Thetford Priory, Norfolk
15 photos
Ruins of a once-powerful 12th century Cluniac priory
Skulls and bones
432 photos
Wells, Bath & Somerset
151 photos
Ipswich
1316 photos
book covers
570 photos
Erotic oak
5 photos
Vaguely suggestive shapes viewed on a blasted oak tree near Somersham, Suffolk
Cambridge & Cambridgeshire
152 photos
Frost
9 photos
Illustrations by the American artist Arthur B Frost for Lewis Carroll's long poem "Phantasmagoria" (first published 1869, illustrations added 1883). The narrator returns late to his rooms...
Furniss
11 photos
Illustrations by Harry Furniss for Lewis Carroll's 1889 novel Sylvie and Bruno and its 1893 follow-up Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. The combined chronicle has been described by Carroll's biographer...
Fungi
51 photos
Mushrooms and toadstools of various kinds seen on walks through Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk and elsewhere, and photographed purely for their shapes, colours and textures. Just don't ask me to...
We'll always have Paris
43 photos
Photos taken around the French capital, August 2010
Suffolk grotesques
404 photos
Whomped Willows
18 photos
Willow trees near the river Stour, Dedham, Essex ("Constable country"), twisted into bizarre shapes by time and the weather.