I think Derek Jarman made people here aware of the strange beauty of Dungeness so it’s good to know that his cottage was saved for the nation (by me, among many others) earlier this year.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/21/derek-jarman-prospect-cottage-dungeness-kent-garden-museum-london That whole area has the remote bleak beauty of flat coastal landscapes. Very appealing. I found this article yesterday about the railway tracks: http://www.urban75.org/photos/kent/dungeness-railway-01.html > On 7 Nov 2020, at 15:42, Ralf R Radermacher <fotor...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am 07.11.20 um 02:39 schrieb ann sanfedele: > >> would like the back story on Ralf's - what caused the rails to become >> "wrinkled"? frost and heave? floods? quake? > > Quite frankly no idea. This isn't a real railway. The rails were used by > the local fishermen to move their boats across the beach. Everything is > a lot smaller than it looks and I gather they have the same gauge as the > neighbouring Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, i.e. 15 inch. > > They look as if they haven't been used for a long time and, much like > the huts in the background, have been left there to contribute to the > picturesque impression of the whole place. > > Dungeness is indeed a very peculiar place, with it's half-desert-like > nature, simple fisher huts and this enormous eyesore of a nuclear power > station. > > Here's a photo I've taken on another visit there: > > https://www.fotocommunity.com/photo/in-englands-green-and-pleasant-land-fotoralfbe/23396586 > > The big concrete monster in the background is the reactor building. The > only other solid buildings are those victorian houses on the right for > the lighthouse wardens. > > Wikipedia has this about Dungeness: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeness > > ...and the Internet has lots of other articles about the unique nature > and geology of the place. > > It has indeed some strange kind of attraction and we've often returned > there on our many daytrips over from Dunkirk. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
