Preparing for change on the coast

2011 video from Managing Coastal Change about 'an innovative scheme to recreate salt marsh'.

Not devoid of bucolic charm

The 1594 map of John Norden

The railroad from Wickford to Burnham 
traverses a very pleasant open country, largely 
pastoral in its interests and industries, and certainly 
not devoid of bucolic charm. It carries you to 
Battlesbridge, where an iron bridge spans the 
Crouch near the old water-mill, and where, as 
tradition states, fugitive warriors crossed the river 
after the Battle of Ashingdon. Next you reach 
Woodham Ferris, where Maurice Fitz- Geoffrey 
founded a priory for Black Canons at Bycknacre, 
in the days of our second Henry ; a Transitional 
arch, standing in solitary desolation among the 
corn, was recently perhaps it yet stands the 
sole relic of that once rich foundation. The 
curious may find an illustration of this arch, and 
much interesting letterpress touching the priory, in 
Archteologia (1793). Another three miles takes you 
to Fambridge, whither we have already rambled ; 
then, looking southwards from the train window, 
you will survey a wide stretch of perfectly flat 
marshland, scribbled over with winding creeks 
and narrow dykes, spanned by many little bridges. 
Presently you will catch glimpses of the white 
sails of yachts and the masts of barges in the far 
distance, afloat upon the broader waters of the 
Crouch Estuary. Althorne is soon passed, and the 
next station is Burnham-on-Crouch the ' Burne- 
ham streete ' of John Norden's map. 

from Marsh-country Rambles (1904) by Herbert Tompkins

Under an East Coast Moon

 

William Adamson 'Under an East Coast Moon' - more Sebald contrails?According to the Gilles Peterson site:

"William Adamson, the former talisman of acid jazz pioneers Galliano and sporadic poet Earl Zinger releases his debut album on Brownswood on 18th March. Produced by heritage futurists 2 Banks Of 4, the multi-faceted Gallagher has created a topographical travelogue – a concept album in the truest sense – where the songs tell fragments of stories that have grown out of a small region in the Eastern Horn of England, with sounds more akin to recordings emanating from the Louisiana marshlands"

The Pale Horse: Silt

 

The sound piece by musicians Jimmy Cripps and Rico Borza, and sound designer Jesse T. Rybolt, commissioned to accompany the David Quentin photography exhibition Silt  (following Robert Macfarlane's Essex walk on the Broomway) has been released (download only - boo!) by Brainlove Records, under the moniker of 'The Pale Horse'.

Read full review of Silt - The Pale Horse on Boomkat.com ©

Reading RheuMatisM

More Eerie Anglia explorations, Suffolk hauntology via Mordant Music, Travelogues 11: Reading RheuMatisM. Here's Baron Mordant's description:

"Ohm vanishing land...Woodbridge via Dunwich via Hastings...hand dryer via ad-hoc car park choir via esturial mud-slapping...plenty of rheum at the reading rooms...Sebald's contrails...Eno's nose...'local mafia'...k_punk silted up for the duration..."


Read full review of Travelogues 11: Reading RheuMatisM - MORDANT MUSIC on Boomkat.com ©

The Creeksea Cliffs

With the flood defences along most of the River Crouch, there are few places where you can observe the unobstructed process of erosion. Here is one, the Creeksea Cliffs, on the north shore between Althorne and Burnham-on-Crouch. These are clay cliffs tumbling into the river, bringing trees along with them and revealing untouched flint cells to the sky. It's a fossil haunt too apparently, the source of shark teeth and Ray fangs, arrowheads and more. We beachcombed for pottery fragments and interesting shells. Near the eastern extremity lay a lamb corpse, its face eaten off.

A Study for the Estuary

A Study for the Estuary from James Price on Vimeo.

Estuarine mediations from Rachel Lichenstein and James Price charting the passage of a motley crew from Queenbrough, across the shipping channels, to Southend Pier.