Tag: Managed Retreat

  • Beneath the Seawall, the Beach of Dreams

    Beneath the Seawall, the Beach of Dreams

    Last Sunday I participated in a stage of Beach of Dreams, walking between Bradwell Waterside and Burnham-on-Crouch. Beach of Dreams is an art project initiated by Ali Pretty of Kinetika, it’s a collaborative 500-mile walk between Lowestoft and Tilbury

  • Managed Retreat

    Managed Retreat

    My work on bioregional thinking for the Atlantic Archipelago began with Managed Retreat a magazine considering the English orient which includes work relating to the Dengie. You can read Issue 1 below: https://issuu.com/londonpermaculture/docs/managed_retreat-adobe_reduc A limited number of printed copies of the newspaper format edition are still available for £5 each. If you would like one…

  • Desk Research: Two Horseshoes

    When it comes to catastrophic flooding in Essex 1953 tends to get all the coverage, but the inundation of 1897 was equally noteworthy – after breaches in the sea walls 30-35,000 acres of farmland were underwater. Eventually most of that land was re-claimed, but a stretch of the north bank of the Crouch, near North…

  • Beating the Bounds 1: North Fambridge to BoC

    Beating the Bounds 1: North Fambridge to BoC

    An afternoon bracer: off the train at North Fambridge at 15.10 then south down at Fambridge Road. At the turn to The Avenue I instead took the footpath (PROW 256_10) along Blue House Farm Chase towards Blue House Farm. Instead of proceeding directly to the sea wall by the continuing public footpath (PROW 256_13) I…