Ray Newman

@raynewman.bsky.social

He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman

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St John’s, Duxford - empty, preserved, and a theatre of shadows. Double exposure Polaroids, with a single exosure playing gooseberry in the middle. The grand west window shadow, overlapped with close ups of red flowers left on a window sill. They work, but composition lessons to be learnt here.

The aisle of an empty, light filled church, superimposed with a small bouquet of flowers in a glass vase. (There is too much north window in the flowers composition - the criss cross of the leading is too distracting, and takes the eyes away from the photo’s strength - the aisle of pews sitting underneath the flowers)The Nave of an empty church. The shadow of the west window sits exactly - a great sun of window - between the pillars leading into the chancel. The rest of the church is shadow and memory of the shape of all churches.Another double exposure. This time the thin stone door to the (long missing) roof screen is overlapped with the flowers. (But it’s a confusing image - and not overly interesting in its confusion. I turned the camera upside down, so the stone door is upside down, and the flowers are too close to the camera - so they are blurred, and once again that damn north window is there, a bully of focused perfection, dominating the image)
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“It was about one hundred years ago this month.. that Ruth Wynne, a young woman tutor, and her charge Evelyn Allington, saw a Georgian mansion in between the Suffolk villages of Rougham and Bradfield St. George that wasn’t there the following spring. It had apparently vanished.”

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#Booktober Day 12: Regional UK hauntings, from the well-known in York to some more obscure collections. The little pamphlet in the middle came from the local library in Lancaster and is an absolute delight.

HAUNTED YORK A PITKIN GUIDE The Ghostly Guide to the Lake District HAUNTED YORKSHIRE DANKS HAUNTED YORK Tony Walker NICK TYLER Strange Visitors True Tales of Ghostly Goings On in the Lancaster Area Steve Lennon & Derek Frankland JUDY MIDDLETON Ghosts of Lincoln 1493-990 Jenny Bright with Dr. David Cross
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According to Wikipedia: ‘The creature's constant motion produces an eerie grinding sound that suits its task. The hour is tolled by the sound of a chain clanking into a small wooden coffin hidden in the back of the clock’ !!!!

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Went to Cambridge Poetry Festival today, about thirty years since I arrived as a fresher at Kings, and noticed this is now opposite - an EVIL LOCUST CLOCK that EATS TIME! (bit on the nose)

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This is still going. Replies are mostly people questioning their grasp of reality, including, inevitably, some who don't know me wondering if it's AI-generated. (Obviously not.)

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