This month we’re pleased to present a guest post by a friend of this blog, Charles Swain.  We hope you’ll agree that Charlie’s photographic essay provides some stunning images and impressions of a recent visit to an abandoned industrial town … Continue reading →

      Along a shelving bank of turf, which lay Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling Its green arms round the bosom of the stream, But kiss’d it and then fled, as thou mightest in dream.” A … Continue reading →