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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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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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Chelmsford Cathedral
Churches

Chelmsford Cathedral

I was working in Chelmsford the other week and took the opportunity to pop across to the Cathedral to create some HDR pictures of it. This was originally a church built arond 800 years ago. It became a Cathdral in 1914 and, as with many Essex churches, has a section

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Shoe Last
Dereliction

A Shoe Last in the Dunmow Lock-Up

Continuing the short series of images taken from the Dunmow Lock-Up this is an old shoe last: Each shoe last is designed for a particular heel height, toe shape, and type of footwear. Many styles of shoes can be made on the same shoe last , but the toe shape

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Stephens Fountain Ink with border
Dereliction

Ink in the Dunmow Lock Up

It’s always quite interesting what you find in old “abandoned” buildings. This is probably my favourite shot from the series I took in the old Dunmow lock-up. For those of you who care about such things this is an HDR shot taken from a bracket of 3 shots.

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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.