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White Bridge

The psychogeography of haunted bridges | A rusted bridge over a river | White Bridge by Holly Yuille

When the bridge was built it was brilliant white, but now the cars have spat their soot and the rain has found the cracks in the paint to make it rusty and orange. They painted it 10 years after it was built, 20 years after, 30 and on and on until one year they painted it and the next day it looked grey and orange again and the council said they weren’t coming back for it…

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Dunwich Grange

The psychogeography of spooky countryside hotels | A countryside hotel at night | Dunwich Grange by Dominic Simmonds

On this particular occasion I was returning home from doing some temp work in Cheltenham. I was a catering chef and was often away for a couple of weeks at a time, going wherever people needed to pay an eye-watering amount of money for some finger sandwiches and dry scones. I’d just missed my connection and according to the board my next train was delayed, indefinitely it would seem…

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An Orkney Saga

The psychogeography of the Orkney Islands | Standing stones on the Orkney Islands | An Orkney Saga by Tim Cooke

One summer, my father took us, Rob and I, to the Orkney Islands, to see the Viking burial sites, Pictish and Neolithic ruins, and to do some fishing. I was still in primary school – year five, I think. The first evening we arrived, we watched three locals unload their catch from a small motorboat onto the boggy shore of the lake we were staying on…

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