Dungeness

Time spent at Dungeness is never wasted. A week ago I braved the bitterly cold winds to spend an hour walking around parts of the village around the shingle bank and in sight of the power station, the two lighthouses, and the myriad of cottages, shacks, huts, containers, boats and all sorts of beachside oddities and detritus. This is an important ecological site, one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world, It also has the southerly terminus of the narrow gauge Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway. A useful site on Dungeness with a very good selection of photographs is www.urban75.org/photos/kent/dungeness.html

I took a few shots of the iconic cottage where the artist Derek Jarman used to live. It's a bleak but fascinating part of the Kent coast, that would repay a longer visit. If only it had been warmer.

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