Wimpole Avenue
The famous double avenue of over 1,200 trees extending 2.5 miles south from Wimpole Hall was originally composed mainly of elms but these were wiped out by Dutch elm disease
Category: Drone
Grimes Graves
Many thanks to Dr Jennifer Wexler, English Heritage’s Curator of History and historian of prehistoric sites, for permission to use my drone to captures images of this unique stone-age flint
Former RAF Alconbury
RAF Alconbury was one of those many RAF bases that, from WW2 until closure, was exclusively operated by the USAF. Most famously, in the 1980s and 1990s, it was home
Mullard RAO
The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory This is the western part of the site, nearest Barton Road. For my earlier images of other radio telescopes at the eastern end of the
The American Cemetery
The American Cemetery at Madingley, near Cambridge, contains the remains of 3,812 American war dead from World War II, marked by 3,732 Latin crosses and 80 Stars of David. Alongside
Crop Marks In The Drought
A few years ago, on a historical Google Earth view, I spotted a remarkably crisp and complex set of crop marks just north of Cambridge, between the A14 and Landbeach.
Felixstowe Revisited
Various views of Felixstowe docks and its massive container ships and cranes, as well as the historic Landguard Fort. Amazingly, these huge cranes were built in Finland or China, and
Animal Tracks In The Landscape
From the air, the networks of tracks made by all sorts of animals, domesticated and wild, large and small, in the landscape can become very obvious. Sometimes they forge them
Potton Quarry, Gamlingay
My obsession with sand and gravel quarries continues! This is Breedon’s Potton sand quarry, SW of Gamlingay, where the sand is a particularly reddish hue.
Shropshire & Hereforshire
Clee Hill quarries in Shropshire and the Rive Teme near Leintwardine in Hereforshire.
Cavenham Heath In Winter
The National Nature Reserve at Cavenham Heath, near the village of Tuddenham, in Suffolk. On frosty winter days, many details of the landscape emerge that are just not seen in
Rocky Coasts
The Scillies and the Isle of Mull
Fenland Harvest Time
Although vegetables are grown in much of the fens, some areas are most suitable for grain.
Rye and Nearby
Rye in Sussex has long been one of our favourite destinations for a short break, particularly in winter.
Pumpkins
Every year, many millions of pumpkins are grown in the silt fens around Emneth, Outwell, Upwell and Three Holes for the Halloween trade. From above, they make wonderful colourful patterns,
Winter Floods, Ouse Washes
When Dutch engineers under Cornelius Vermuyden drained the fens from the 1600s onwards, they created two huge parallel linear waterways 1/2 mile apart, the Old and New Bedford Rivers. They
Derelict Church, Norfolk
Near the village of Edgmere. The church was at the heart of a mediaeval village, but all that remains of that are a few bumps in the ground. The lush
Tilbury Fort
A Napoleonic era fort on the north bank of the Thames estuary. Built in the Vauban star-shaped style, with multiple layers of defences. The naval guns were a WW2 addition.
Sugar Factory, Wissington
The factory was originally built a century ago on the banks of the river Wissey, so that beet could be brought from across the fens by barge (and by rail).
Skaters, Upware
These meadows by the River Cam, near Upware, experience shallow floods most winters, and in a cold spell, the floods freeze and provide perfect skating conditions.
Ardnamurchan
Another favourite holiday destination is the Ardnamurchan peninsula on the west coast of Scotland.
Isle of Mull
One of our favourite UK holiday destinations.
Thor Missile Sites
From the late 1950s to just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, eastern England was home to 60 American-built and jointly operated Thor missiles, each with a 1.4 megaton nuclear warhead
Trains
Ely sidings, waiting for the Flying Scotsman, and Pymoor bridge in the fens.
Pigs
Near Mildenhall, Suffolk, and Covehithe, Suffolk
Fuller’s Mill Gardens, Suffolk
These wonderful gardens were created from a patch of forest adjoining the River Lark, over a period of over 50 years, by Bernard Tichner, former head brewer at Greene King,
Saltmarshes
I love the abstract patterns in saltmarshes. Tollesbury, Essex Thornham, Norfolk
Sand Quarries
My current drone obsession! Between Earith and Haddenham. Junction of Twentypence Road and Long Drove, NE of Cottenham. Halfway between Mepal and Chatteris. Also between Mepal and Chatteris.
Fenland Vistas
The East Anglian fens are flat – very flat! So from a few hundred feet up, on a good day, you can see for many, many miles.
Radio Telescopes
Cambridge University’s Mullard Radio Astronomy Laboratory, at Lord’s Bridge, near Barton. Built a decontaminated WW2 mustard gas depot! The line of white dishes sits on the route of the old
Lakenheath Fen
A few decades ago, all of the RSPBs Lakenheath Fen Reserve was carrot fields in the rich peat fens. Lagoons were excavated, millions of reeds planted, and the reserve is
Brassicas
Rows of different brassicas growing in the deep silt fens.
Sandwiches!
I love to find lots of (approximately) parallel bands of varying colour and texture in the landscape. A camera club colleague calls these my “sandwich pictures”. The Fens have many,
Architecture
Buildings I Particularly Like
Canvey Island
It was a grey day at Leigh-on-Sea and Canvey Island, but I rather like the overall muted effect.
Felixstowe Docks
Felixstowe is the UK’s largest container port, and it is served by the world’s largest container ships, some of which can carry nearly 12,500 40ft continuers (the big ones!). It