Dorset has no shortage of places to arouse the inner poet, but few hit the spot quite like Tyneham with its effortless ability to lure the inspired into paroxysms of bucolic fantasy. Occupying an apparently idyllic spot between Lulworth and Kimmeridge, a mile from what is now called the Jurassic Coast, many describe as ‘lost’, Read More…
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Life beneath the ocean wave
Even if everything does happen for a reason Maria Munn could be forgiven for wondering why she had to be run over and suffer terrible injuries and multiple organ damage, not just once, but twice. So to find her in the hard-earned comfort of her photographic studio in Swanage professing gratitude for such near catastrophic events takes a moment to process.
Fossils fuel the future
A monument to one man’s passion for the past and what it tells us about today, the Etches Collection at Kimmeridge stands only just below St Nicholas’s Church. Before it lies the village and beyond, the wave-washed ledges of the bay that has been home to the famous fossils for some 150 million years. Actually, Read More…
Steve Etches discovering the land that time forget
Some 50 years after he left school without a qualification to his name, Steve Etches is still cocking a snook at Academia. In those days all he had to back himself up was self-belief, but today he has an MBE for services to science, a string of awards from his peers and an international reputation Read More…