A Black and White Life in Concrete, Stuston, Suffolk - 3rd September 1992

Nosher's landlords Geoff and Brenda had been toiling for years making concrete garden ornaments for supply to several local garden centres and suchlike. Despite this particularly hard way of life taking up most of their waking hours for around 30 years, they took not one single photograph of it, so the only ones in existence are the few featured here. The business has now been sold following their retirement, and the sheds and ornaments have now all gone. There are also some photos from the greater environs of Diss and Billingford, a trip to Geoff's friend's machine sheds in Palgrave, and a trip to meet Sis at the Old Man's place in Macclesfield.

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Aphrodites in the shed

Aphrodites in the shed

A concrete version of the Teracotta Army

Some lions in the undergrowth

Brenda pauses leaning on a sack barrow

Brenda wheels some ornaments out of the shed

A rusting scarifier or something

An old watering can looks like it has barnacles

A shed full of machine randomness

A small stationery engine is prepped with a gas bottle

Geoff and his chum talk about machines

An old car and tractor in a shed

More machinery

A proud machine collector

'Mad' Sue mows her lawn

Sue and a lawnmower

A Nosher-painted slate for The Stables - the Stuston pad

Nosher's beloved Mark 1 Astra

Nosher's Astra by the garage

Bernie's keyboard is stacked on the piano

A bee in a flower

Brenda in the Wilbye netball team (bottom right)

Brenda's school photo, 1950s

The Stuston lightning tree, on the S bends

The lightning tree, Stuston

Billingford windmill and the heath

Billingford Windmill

Billingford windmill again

A fluffy cloud

The watermeadows, Billingford bridge

Norfolk House Yard, Diss

St. Mary's Church, Diss

Diss Publishing and Frameworks

Winnie the tractor in the garage

Geoff pokes around with Winnie

Geoff looks up

A bit later in the year, it's bonfire night

A raging bonfire

Bernie finds something amusing

Figures in the dark

Watching the bonfire

Sis in the Old Man's lounge

The Old Man has a smoke

Sis again

The Old Man finds something amusing