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Beauchamp Roding Church in fields
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St Botolph’s Church – Beauchamp Roding

At the weekend I headed out towards North Weald – I had a particular target for some old derelict premises I wanted to photograph – more on that later this week. On my way, and out of the corner of my eye I spotted a church I had not noticed

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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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The Captivity Window Broxted Church
Churches

The Hostage Windows, Broxted Church

Broxted Church has two specially commissioned stained glass windows – The Captivity and Freedom Windows designed by John Clark and illustrated here. For more information on Broxted Church see our earlier post by clicking here

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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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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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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.