by Brendan Jackson | Nov 25, 2016 | Work
West Bromwich at War, 2016 Publication, exhibition, events A year-long project with members of West Bromwich Local History Society produced a beautiful book looking at the town during the Second World War. (‘It's a page-turner,’ as one person enthusiastically...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 28, 2015 | Notes
The Netherton Tunnel If you look hard enough you will find rivers within the industrial West Midlands, though none of any particular note or size. There’s the River Tame, typically described as an ‘urban river, polluted heavily modified by culverting, straightening,...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 27, 2015 | Notes
Local colour (in black & white) On a college field trip to Scotland, in the Cairngorms, I was wandering about aimlessly. I’d been given a Praktika, as had others in turn, and told to spend a day documenting the landscape. It rained most of the time that week and the...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 27, 2015 | Viewpoint
The Golden View She threw herself into the air, urging the swing higher, higher, impatient as ever. For a moment, at the apex, before gravity pulled her back, she imagined she was a bird. A swallow perhaps, rising above the 14th-century cathedral, St. Guisto’s...
by Brendan Jackson | Aug 27, 2015 | Notes
Katyn Memorial Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, is a remnant of a medieval Royal hunting-forest. Covering 26 square miles, the Chase is today the largest surviving area of lowland heathland and pine forest in the Midlands and designated as an Area of Outstanding...
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