Author Archives: toby1960

Wasteground

This is a companion to the post A liminal place that visited locations around the boundary of Luton airport, borderlands where the tectonic plates of ancient countryside grate against modernity. The new post looks at an acre or two of long-abandoned industrial estate, a place that is rewilding itself, a small corner where flora andContinue reading “Wasteground”

St. Mary the Virgin – Letchworth

The oldest church in Letchworth, St. Mary’s has traces of its Saxon origins but is mostly of early Norman construction. It’s a tiny and delightful building on Letchworth Lane with some interesting 19th and 20th gravestones, including one of a Belgian soldier of the First World War, paid for by work mates from the factoryContinue reading “St. Mary the Virgin – Letchworth”