Vintage signs on a wall on Hope Street
From East End to East Coast: Brick Lane and Walberswick, London and Suffolk - 9th February 2007
Isobel finds a retro 70s-esque armchair in London and so we head down to near Bethnal Green to pick it up, stick it in the back of the Mk 2 Astra and have a curry on Brick Lane to boot. The next day, the weather turns from gloomy rain to sun, so we head over to Walberswick, near Southwold on the Suffolk Coast, to have a walk on the beach. This requires driving right through chicken flu "ground zero" exclusion zones around Holton, and gives a chance to recount to Isobel the story of Black Shuck, the Devil Dog who roams the byways of Suffolk, as we stop off for a quick look around Blythburgh Church.
next album: Ten-pin Bowling and Birthdays, Cambridge Leisure Park, Cambridge - 17th February 2007
previous album: Taptu: A New Start-up, and The BBs at the Apollo Rooms, Harleston - 3rd February 2007
Street food off Brick Lane
A bloke with a pair of tongs
Tenfoot graffiti, featuring a couple of pink breasts
Installation art
More graffiti, wheelie bins and a pile of junk
A crushed car
Isobel's on the phone
A view of the Gherkin
Gas-mask street art
'Caution: infernal traffic'
Wistful graffiti
A deserted factory building
A heavily-graffiti'd doorway
Isobel, and reflections in glass doors
More wall art
The Heveningham sign is covered up by an Avian Influenza warning
Blythburgh Church - the Cathedral of the Marshes
Sunlight plays on the floor
Black Shuck's scorch marks are visible on the door
Light streams in through the plain-glass windows
A hide-away priest's hole
The spiral stairs to the priets's hole
Blythburgh Church reaches for the sky
At Walberswick: houses in stilts
A house on stilts by the car park
People in the dunes
Southwold Lighthouse from the beach at Walberswick
Gravelly beach
Isobel walks along the shingle
A silhouetted couple walk on the beach
A small child lobs stones in to the sea
Marram grass in the sand dunes
A couple of stacked buckets sit unused on the sand
Strangely-shaped pond
A fisherman casts out
Isobel watches the sun
Broken fence
A weathered tree stump
The sun sets over the salt marsh
The houses on stilts again
The ruined part of Walberswick church
Birds fly off over the church tower
We get stuck behind a slow-moving heavy
The slow-moving heavy's lights bounce in the dark near Hoxne
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Vintage signs on a wall on Hope Street
Vintage signs on a wall on Hope Street
Street food off Brick Lane
A bloke with a pair of tongs
Tenfoot graffiti, featuring a couple of pink breasts
Installation art
More graffiti, wheelie bins and a pile of junk
A crushed car
Isobel's on the phone
A view of the Gherkin
Gas-mask street art
'Caution: infernal traffic'
Wistful graffiti
A deserted factory building
A heavily-graffiti'd doorway
Isobel, and reflections in glass doors
More wall art
The Heveningham sign is covered up by an Avian Influenza warning
Blythburgh Church - the Cathedral of the Marshes
Sunlight plays on the floor
Black Shuck's scorch marks are visible on the door
Light streams in through the plain-glass windows
A hide-away priest's hole
The spiral stairs to the priets's hole
Blythburgh Church reaches for the sky
At Walberswick: houses in stilts
A house on stilts by the car park
People in the dunes
Southwold Lighthouse from the beach at Walberswick
Gravelly beach
Isobel walks along the shingle
A silhouetted couple walk on the beach
A small child lobs stones in to the sea
Marram grass in the sand dunes
A couple of stacked buckets sit unused on the sand
Strangely-shaped pond
A fisherman casts out
Isobel watches the sun
Broken fence
A weathered tree stump
The sun sets over the salt marsh
The houses on stilts again
The ruined part of Walberswick church
Birds fly off over the church tower
We get stuck behind a slow-moving heavy
The slow-moving heavy's lights bounce in the dark near Hoxne