The Harvs on Mere Street
Moping in Southwold, Suffolk - 3rd April 2004
When fanciful aspirations of things that might be are swept aside and the realisation happens that there is no more, then the best thing to do is to go and stand on a windswept beach and just listen to the waves for a while. And so it was, but not before a quick muso hang-out in Diss with the Ian and Liam from "The Harvs". The trip to Southwold was followed by a stop at Blythburgh for a look inside the church immortalised in the song Black Shuck by Lowestoft's The Darkness. The demon-dog Black Shuck - the name deriving from the Anglo-Saxon for devil, or Scucca - is an East Anglian legend, and is said to haunt graveyards and country lanes. Sometimes Black Shuck is headless, or sometimes has bright eyes that can be seen in the dark. He follows travellers step-for-step, and if they should turn and see him, a close family member will die within 12 months. Both Blythburgh and Bungay churches are said to have scorch marks on their doors caused by blows from Shuck's "fatal paw".
Soundtrack for this album:
next album: Jess's Post-Birthday Barbeque and a Walk Around Pulham - 4th April 2004
previous album: Jess's Birthday Do, The King's Head, Pulham St Mary, Norfolk - 3rd April 2004
Ian looks at Liam
Liam and Ian outside Clinton's Cards in Diss
Some dude talks about Woody Guthrie
A Harvs guitar case
Ninja M wanders past
Down on the beach at Southwold
Nosher by the concrete promenade
Another selfie
The mostly-empty beach
Groynes in the sea
Damaged beach huts
A view through porches
Beach huts, trashed by the sea
A shed for sale on the sea front
Tim Hunkin's brilliant water clock
The telescope at the end of the pier
When the sea is wavy - a favourite pier placque
A view of Southwold from the pier
The Southwold Pier sign
Under the pier
Nosher leans against the pier supports
Standing on gravel
Small changing huts near the car park
A derelict boat called Herrac
On top of the cliffs
Blythburgh Church
The Blythburgh village sign
A thatched house in Blythburgh
Blythburgh's Holy Trinity Church
Inside Blythburgh church
the church door, with Black Shuck's scorch marks
The roof of the church
Upstairs in the priests' hole
Brick floor, and the font
The detatched church at Bramfield
The thatched church of St. Andrew at Bramfield
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The Harvs on Mere Street
The Harvs on Mere Street
Ian looks at Liam
Liam and Ian outside Clinton's Cards in Diss
Some dude talks about Woody Guthrie
A Harvs guitar case
Ninja M wanders past
Down on the beach at Southwold
Nosher by the concrete promenade
Another selfie
The mostly-empty beach
Groynes in the sea
Damaged beach huts
A view through porches
Beach huts, trashed by the sea
A shed for sale on the sea front
Tim Hunkin's brilliant water clock
The telescope at the end of the pier
When the sea is wavy - a favourite pier placque
A view of Southwold from the pier
The Southwold Pier sign
Under the pier
Nosher leans against the pier supports
Standing on gravel
Small changing huts near the car park
A derelict boat called Herrac
On top of the cliffs
Blythburgh Church
The Blythburgh village sign
A thatched house in Blythburgh
Blythburgh's Holy Trinity Church
Inside Blythburgh church
the church door, with Black Shuck's scorch marks
The roof of the church
Upstairs in the priests' hole
Brick floor, and the font
The detatched church at Bramfield
The thatched church of St. Andrew at Bramfield