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Tilty Watermill
Dereliction

The Watermill at Tilty

The watermill is thought to date from the later part of the 18th century. The mill contains a large cast iron waterwheel and a complete set of gearing to three pairs of millstones. As recently as 2005 restoration was being considered, however the mill appears to have been abandoned now

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The Old Mill Stream Waterfall 2
HDR

The stream that powered a water mill…

Back to Tilty… If you walk past the Church, down across the field past the remains of the monastery you’ll come to a derelict water mill. Walk to the back of this and you’ll be able to see the old water course that used to feed this. What remains of

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Cooking on Gas
Dereliction

Organisation, or lack thereof.

We’ve been a bit all over the place from the start of this blog – I promise we’ll start being a little more disciplined in the organisation of series of pictures so that you don’t have to leap from page to page to find all the posts from a series.

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The Font at Tilty Church
Churches

Tilty Church revisited…

The second entry on this blog was about Tilty Church, and promised a series of images, this so far has not materialised! So, without further ado: The first thing you see as you enter Tilty Church is the Font. This was made from excavated material from the Abbey dating from

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Chelmsford Cathedral Organ
Churches

The Organ at Chelmsford Cathedral

Hovering high in the sky is this rather impressive organ which was being tuned to within an inch of its life when this picture was taken – single, high pitched notes blasted at you for long periods of time is probably not the best way to hear the organ! More

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Shoe Lasts Collection - on the Cobblers shelf
Dunmow Lock-Up

The Cobblers Shelf

Back to the old Dunmow Lock-Up and shoe lasts. You can see a stand alone shoe last in this post, here we have a small collection of shoe lasts

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Heading Out of Broxted Church
Churches

Leaving Broxted Church

The second image in the Broxted Church series and we’re leaving already! Don’t worry, we’ll be back inside Broxted Church soon.

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Storm Clouds over Finchingfield
HDR

Sun and Showers at Finchingfield

On Sunday I pottered over to Finchingfield to have a look at the Church there and see if there were any opportunities to get some interesting pictures of the village itself. As you can see, showers were never far away… I was quite lucky with the weather, it meant Finchingfield

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Dunmow from Doctors Pond
Doctors Pond

Doctors Pond – Dunmow

Pictures you see of Doctors Pond are usually taken from the North Street end of the pond looking towards Star Lane and the tennis courts, and that’s fair enough it’s an obviously attractive picture. This picture, on the other hand, is taken from the Rosemary Lane side looking towards Dunmow

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm a past Chairman and Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions. I have recently moved to Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders.