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Can you see – Southwold

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Affinities

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Southwold 2025 – 11

The saw-tooth shadows of the beach hut roofs cast by the setting sun is one of the motifs of Southwold for me. The beach is shaped by longshore drift.  At the north end by the pier the promenade is several … Continue reading

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Southwold 2025 – 10

Thursday 20th March. It’s been gloriously sunny all week with perfect blue skies; there has also been a very cold NE-ENE wind. No wind today and much warmer – t-shirts and shorts out along the promenade. The millpond-calm sea merged … Continue reading

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Southwold 2025 – 8

In Reydon the early 14th century St Margaret’s church, sits quite isolated from the village along the Wangford Road. The big churchyard and the adjacent Southwold Cemetery were unusual in the absence of grand memorials to members of local families.  … Continue reading

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Southwold 2025 – 7

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Southwold 2025 – 6

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Southwold 2025 – 4

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Southwold 2025 – 3

Nicholas Pevsner summed up Southwold’s attractions with unusual lyricism: ‘Southwold is one of the happiest and most picturesque seaside towns in England; happy but not cheerful in the cheerio-sense, and picturesque, but not in the quaint sense of Clovelly.  It … Continue reading

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Southwold 2025 – 2

St Edmund Southwold is a church full of wonderful things, not least the rood screen from the 1480. The dado is painted with thirty-six figures of saints: despite being vandalised by puritan iconoclasts and cleaned in 1930 the spectral faces … Continue reading

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Southwold 2025 – 1

A week at Reydon, just outside Southwold.  Glorious sun and azure skies – good enough to forget the chilly north easterlies – perfect antidote to gloomy February. Dunwich Heath, aflame with the yellow fire of gorse, redolent of coconut shampoo. … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 7a: Suffolk 1981

I missed this holiday in the first trawl of the diaries.  59a High Street, Southwold 12th April 1981 A restless night punctuated by waking children, a calling tawny owl and an unexplained raging headache.  I got up with Matthew and … Continue reading

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Shutter Hub – Everyday Delight

Shutter Hub as sent out a call for submissions on the theme of Everyday Delight. ‘Everyday Delight is something we think of often, and we’ve always planned to do more around the theme because it meant so much to everyone … Continue reading

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Only Colour – Southwold 2

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Reydon Graves

The big churchyard of St Margaret’s, Reydon, Suffolk, and the adjacent Southwold Cemetery are unusual in the absence of big memorials to the departed of local families.  Both are dominated by simple upright headstones, decoration extending only to the choice … Continue reading

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