Porchester Press

09/01/2026

Nottingham and Sheffield may be
40 miles apart but they are very similar in terms of their culture and history.

Despite Bendigo improving the prize-fighting scene in Sheffield, it seems that 100 years on someone in Sheffield seemed to have a grudge.

07/01/2026

01/01/2026

Built in the Victorian era, Mapperley saw huge changes in the treatment of mental illness.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year's Day from a bracing Brancaster Beach in Norfolk. The high tide flood prevented access to the beach and even closed the road, leaving drivers to sit it out in their cars. Our footpath was fortunately on the top of the sea defence bank.
🌊🚩

29/12/2025

Brancaster Beach at low tide is a great place to discover old features. 
These ‘Admiralty Scaffolding’ poles, blackened and covered in barnacles were large steel tube structures, often with diagonal braces, placed at the high water mark to stop tanks and boats during World War II.
The ‘greenheart oak’ groynes were installed in the 1970s to slow the erosion of sand called longshore drift. The timber was from South America and used because it is even denser than British oak.

28/12/2025

Here's my Christmas message from the fireside at Blickling Hall in Norfolk. Treat every day the same.
Every day is precious, so enjoy every one. Make each day worthwhile. Show compassion, enjoy the simple things in life, make someone feel good by their interaction with you. Do something challenging, whether it is physical, creative or even something crazy, like para-gliding off the Norfolk coast.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

23/12/2025

An envelope to ‘John’, postmarked Plumstead

Inside a card ‘Merry Christmas from Fred’

When did they meet, what was their connection?

Is the relationship in need of a resurrection?

Or is John Mystery long since dead?

23/12/2025

A stray bobbo getting some munch.

22/12/2025

Huddersfield Town sticker, so high up up a lamp post it must have been placed there by Radulovic himself.
Grey Mare Lane, Beswick, Manchester with complimenting location from what3words:
///only.flesh.darker

17/12/2025

Some of the street-art in town today, including one of several tributes to Valentine Ikechukwu, a 16-year-old former Nottingham College student who tragically drowned at Colwick Country Park earlier this year.