Category Archives: Urban Ephemera

First snow of the winter this morning.  Not very much, but with the cold and wind too miserable to cycle into town, so took the bus.  A snowy windscreen on the upper deck a screensaver for the sights of Cambridge.  … Continue reading →

Sitting having coffee at the Costa in the Milton Tesco, I was struck by the repeated pattern of dots on the window and on the trolley shelters and the fortuitous star/sun burst.  After cursed myself for not having  camera with … Continue reading →

Is this urban ephemera?  The signs are from a past age, mostly for products that no longer exist and hence ephemeral.  Yet, unlike modern advertising they are made to last, and have, and hence are durable, if not quite eternal.  … Continue reading →

This morning I walked from Chesterton into the centre of Cambridge along the river.  The boats moored along the right bank are a continuing source of fascination with their endless variations on what makes a floating home.  Generally I welcome … Continue reading →

        Photo: Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge, April 2016

Exhibits in the University of Cambridge Zoology Museum are anything but ephemeral.  Carefully preserved, they have endured for generations – the Museum opened in 1865.  But the redevelopment of the Museum has given a new ephemeral existence the exhibits – … Continue reading →

Photo: Anglesey Abbey, February 2016

Abney Park Cemetery is beautiful and melancholy. In the greater sweep of time, it’s a reminder of our ephemeral existence and ultimately doomed attempts at immortality through memorials. The Derelict Chapel epitomises this. Someone has tried to personalise the crude … Continue reading →

Photo: Mowbray Road, Cambridge, December 2015

Hub of wheel of tractor used on the slipway for hauling fishing boats out of the sea and up the shingle bank, Cromer.  Transient abstract painting by salt corrosion.

Photo: Hull, June 2015

Photo: Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge

Photo: King’s Crescent, London, May 2015