The Atlantic Wall built by the Nazis during World War 2 along the Dutch, Belgian and French coastline to the border with Spain to stop any invading allied armies on the beaches. It failed !!

Berlin , Germany, photographed in 2009 twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall which is also on this site.

John Carey, literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford photographed on assignment for Intelligent Life Magazine for one of the magazines regular features where authors visit their favourite museums.

Leipzig in what was East Germany during the period that the Berlin Wall was breached in November 1989

My series of couples kissing whilst I travelled the world

Berlin, Germany, November 1989 photographed before during and after the Berlin Wall was breached.

La Bella Figura - Italy 2018 Observations on Italian style photographed in Greve, Sansepolcro and Verona.

Thaxted Morris Weekend 3-4 June 2017 A meeting of member clubs of the Morris Ring celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Thaxted Morris Dancing side or team in Thaxted, North West Essex, England UK. Members of Chalice side from Western Super Mare in white and Silkeborg from Denmark in black Dancing at Finchingfield Essex Hundred of Morris dancers from the UK and this year the Silkeborg side from Denmark spend most of Saturday dance outside pubs in nearby villages where much beer is consumed. In the late afternoon all the sides congregate in Thaxted where massed dancing is perfomed along Town Street. As darkness falls across Thaxted the spell binding Abbots Bromley Horn Dance is performed to the sound of a solo violin in the dark.

Thaxted Morris Dancing Weekend June 2018, Thaxted Essex England UK

Dresden in what was then East Germany November 1989 The streets of Dresden, Saxony, in former East Germany photographed in the week following the fall of the Wall in Berlin, November 1989. Wikipeadia: Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendour. The city was known as the Jewel Box, because of its baroque and rococo city centre. The controversial American and British bombing of Dresden in World War II towards the end of the war killed approximately 25,000, many of whom were civilians, and destroyed the entire city centre. After the war restoration work has helped to reconstruct parts of the historic inner city, including the Katholische Hofkirche, the Zwinger and the famous Semper Oper. Title:

John Carey, literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. February 2014 Photographed for the Times Higher Education Supplement - THES - at Merton College. John Carey (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was born in Barnes, London, and educated at Richmond and East Sheen Boys’ Grammar School, winning an Open Scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. He served in the East Surrey Regiment, 1952-4, and was commissioned. After posts in a number of Oxford colleges, he became Merton Professor in 1975, retiring in 2001. He is known, amongst other things, for his anti-elitist tone and iconoclastic views on high culture, as expressed for example in his book What Good Are the Arts? (2005). He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He is chief book reviewer for the London Sunday Times and appears in radio and TV programmes such as Saturday Review and Newsnight Review.

My coverage of four days on Bill Clinton's Presidential election campaign trail in October 1992...starting in his home town of Hot Springs in Arkansas via his campaign HQ in Little Rock...then on the stump in downtown Philadelphia...the beginning of the road trip south following the candidate while I travelled on the bus with 'Lady Soul' to Wilmington where Harry Belafonte gave his support at an evening rally...then on to Atlanta and Paine College in Augusta in Georgia. On the last evening I attended an evening vigil at the tomb of Martin Luther King east of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta where Dr. King preached with members of his family and Vice Presidential candidate Al Gore

Thaxted Morris Weekend, Thaxted Essex, England. 30-31st May 2015

Coastal Erosion - Britain

Remembered for the CWGC