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Wright<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"News-and-Recent-publications\" rel=\"history\">News and Recent Communications<\/a><br><a href=\"Book-list\" rel=\"history\">Books<\/a>&nbsp;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/professor-patrick-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Contact (via King\u2019s College London)<\/a><\/h2><\/div><br>\n<br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A68%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"6874\" height=\"2123\" width_o=\"6874\" 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46\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A69%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"700\" height=\"460\" width_o=\"700\" height_o=\"460\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/49a58754a8ef95a4693b6083956ddffcc36458cc4c12445581b4c349b0cbe570\/21.jpg\" data-mid=\"87146438\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"77\" alt=\"Art students' float at Public Against Violence demonstration, Bratislava 1990\" data-caption=\"Art students' float at Public Against Violence demonstration, Bratislava 1990\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br>\n<h1><br>\nPick Your Own<\/h1><\/div>\n<br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\"><small><i> <\/i><\/small><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"6\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h1>\u201cWright is a wandering, disestablished scholar whose method is to walk and talk.\u201d\n<\/h1>\n<small>Neal Ascherson, <i>London Review of Books<\/i><\/small><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"6\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h1>\u201c I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been a more original British cultural historian over the last forty years than Patrick Wright . . . he\u2019s always textured, droll, a diviner who addresses topics and intuits significance years\u2014often decades\u2014before other more garlanded commentators.\u201d<\/h1><br>\n\n<small>Sukhdev Sandhu, The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, New York University.<\/small><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cThis is the most depressing book I have read in years... It is ghastly to imagine the sort of ghoul who could wring so much as a furtive snigger from the calamities Wright logs.\u201d<small>John Carey, <i>Sunday Times<\/i><\/small><\/h1>\n\n\t\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cThe disturbing questions he raises are at the heart of our current crisis of national identity.\u201d<\/h1><small>Claire Harman, <i>TLS<\/i><\/small><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cWright . . . is not a&nbsp; biographer or a journalist but a sort of spirit-ethnographer, patient and attentive to change and complexity\u201d.<\/h1><small><font color=\"#5c5c5c\">Ben Ratliff, 4Columns<\/font><\/small><br>\n<br><br>\n<h1>\u201cA work of wit, style and waggish erudition. I was informed and delighted by its originality.\u201d\n\n<\/h1><small>John Le Carr\u00e9 (on <i>Iron Curtain<\/i>)<\/small><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cThe publishers\u2019 blurb states, \u2018<i>Tank<\/i> is not a conventional work of military history.\u2019&nbsp; Amen to that\u201d<br>\n<small>John Keegan, TLS,<\/small><br><br>\n<br>\u201c. . . thorough, discerning, compassionate but not all-licensing...\u201d.<small>Max de Gaynesford, <i>London Magazine<\/i><\/small><br><br>\n<br>\n\"Is there a house of history to stand as neighbour beside Henry James's house of fiction? If there is, Patrick Wright will have a window all to himself, glittering with different, intense and jewelled fragments: a John Piper or Robert C
46olquhoun of a window.\"<\/h1>\n\n<small>Fred Inglis, <i>The Independent<\/i><\/small>\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp;<h1>\u201cI have owned this book for three weeks now but it looks as if I have owned it for three decades, a condition derived from the number of times I have thrown it across various rooms.\u201d&nbsp;<\/h1><h1><font color=\"#5c5c5c\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.2062px;\"><small>Byron Rogers, <i>Literary Review<\/i><\/small><\/span><\/font><\/h1><br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . shrewd, wry and fiercely intelligent.\u201d&nbsp;<br><\/h1><small><font color=\"#5c5c5c\">William Boyd<\/font><\/small><h1><br>\n<br>\nHere is a city dweller with the gusto of Baudelaire and the eye of Jane Jacobs who, undeterred by dogshit and bullshit, enjoys the chaotic humanity, the ironic architectural juxtapositions, the esprit de jeu of late twentieth century London.\u201d &nbsp;<\/h1><small>David Widgery, <i>Independent on Sunday<\/i><\/small>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . a living national treasure of a rather weird variety: a historian who uses the imagistic logic of a fiction writer in the service of explanation, drawing out the many-sided truth of the past by letting unexpected connections form.\u201d<\/h1><small>Francis Spufford, <i> Evening Standard<\/i><\/small>\n<br><br><h1>\u201c. . . an unusual historian\u2014following by-ways normally overlooked by these eyes more firmly fixed on the mainstream.&nbsp; We should treasure his waywardness.\u201d&nbsp;<\/h1><small>Paul Lay, <i>History Today<\/i><\/small><br><br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . a shrewd and cynical commentator.\u201d<\/h1><small>Penelope Lively,<i> Daily Telegraph<\/i><\/small><br><br>\n<br><h1>\u201cThe historical material he gathers is designed to suggest that if you are saddened by seeing green fields built over, if you oppose giant road schemes, if you think Britain is overpopulated, then you are probably a racist and a fascist, and do not deserve to have your arguments taken seriously.\u201d<\/h1><small>John Carey<i> Sunday Times<\/i><\/small><br><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . a sensitive, ultra-thoughtful explorer of [the] national necropolis. With a large torch and copious notes he invites the reader to a number of meandering guided tours well off the main footpaths, some to disreputable tombs ignored by the many official study parties busy on this or that \u2018Great Tradition\u2019\u201d.<\/h1><small>Tom Nairn, <i>The Guardian<\/i><\/small><br><br><br><h1><\/h1><font color=\"#5c5c5c\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.1223px;\"><i><\/i><\/span><\/font> \n<br>\n<br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><br><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<i><\/i><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"8\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n<br>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"6\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h1>Patrick Wright is&nbsp; Emeritus Professor of Literature, History and Politics at King\u2019s College London. Many publishers have fled. No agents have survived. Details and contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/professor-patrick-wright\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><br>\n @tattery<br><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\"><div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A70%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"700\" height=\"394\" width_o=\"700\" height_o=\"394\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ad0d9d0dcb7b0b59ba5eb7351e7842c724e2336a38b5d88050040dc1ef58941\/A002C407_171201Z0_CANON-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88588144\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Patrick Wright at Prora (Shona Illingworth)\" data-caption=\"Patrick Wright at Prora (Shona Illingworth)\"\/>\n<\/div><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"74\" height=\"100\" width_o=\"74\" height_o=\"100\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8edda485c17acd7abb1c44f50c6ff12ab09d4721017bbdc3c5c73df39b2ee980\/head.gif\" data-mid=\"87147297\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"5\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><h2><br>\n<a href=\"About-Patrick\" rel=\"history\">About Patrick Wright<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"News-and-Recent-publications\" rel=\"history\">News and Recent Publications<br>\nPublished Books<\/a>&nbsp;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/professor-patrick-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Contact<\/a><\/h2><br><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h1>\u201cWright is a wandering, disestablished scholar whose method is to walk and talk.\u201d<\/h1><\/div>","content_no_html":"\nAbout Patrick Wright\nNews and Recent CommunicationsBooks&nbsp;\nContact (via King\u2019s College London)\n\n\n{image 21 caption=\"Patrick Wright at Jacques Meillon\u2019s summer farm, Espoune, Hautes-Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, 1997 (photo: Michael Thomas)\"}\n\n\n\n\nThe Praesidium\n\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 24 scale=\"77\" caption=\"Art students' float at Public Against Violence demonstration, Bratislava 1990\"}\n\n\t\n\n\nPick Your Own\n\n\n\n\t \n\t\u201cWright is a wandering, disestablished scholar whose method is to walk and talk.\u201d\n\nNeal Ascherson, London Review of Books\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\u201c I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been a more original British cultural historian over the last forty years than Patrick Wright . . . he\u2019s always textured, droll, a diviner who addresses topics and intuits significance years\u2014often decades\u2014before other more garlanded commentators.\u201d\n\nSukhdev Sandhu, The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, New York University.\n\n\n\u201cThis is the most depressing book I have read in years... It is ghastly to imagine the sort of ghoul who could wring so much as a furtive snigger from the calamities Wright logs.\u201dJohn Carey, Sunday Times\n\n\t\n\n\n\u201cThe disturbing questions he raises are at the heart of our current crisis of national identity.\u201dClaire Harman, TLS\n\n\n\u201cWright . . . is not a&nbsp;
46 biographer or a journalist but a sort of spirit-ethnographer, patient and attentive to change and complexity\u201d.Ben Ratliff, 4Columns\n\n\u201cA work of wit, style and waggish erudition. I was informed and delighted by its originality.\u201d\n\nJohn Le Carr\u00e9 (on Iron Curtain)\n\n\n\u201cThe publishers\u2019 blurb states, \u2018Tank is not a conventional work of military history.\u2019&nbsp; Amen to that\u201d\nJohn Keegan, TLS,\n\u201c. . . thorough, discerning, compassionate but not all-licensing...\u201d.Max de Gaynesford, London Magazine\n\n\"Is there a house of history to stand as neighbour beside Henry James's house of fiction? If there is, Patrick Wright will have a window all to himself, glittering with different, intense and jewelled fragments: a John Piper or Robert Colquhoun of a window.\"\n\nFred Inglis, The Independent\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\u201cI have owned this book for three weeks now but it looks as if I have owned it for three decades, a condition derived from the number of times I have thrown it across various rooms.\u201d&nbsp;Byron Rogers, Literary Review\n\n\u201c. . . shrewd, wry and fiercely intelligent.\u201d&nbsp;William Boyd\n\nHere is a city dweller with the gusto of Baudelaire and the eye of Jane Jacobs who, undeterred by dogshit and bullshit, enjoys the chaotic humanity, the ironic architectural juxtapositions, the esprit de jeu of late twentieth century London.\u201d &nbsp;David Widgery, Independent on Sunday\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201c. . . a living national treasure of a rather weird variety: a historian who uses the imagistic logic of a fiction writer in the service of explanation, drawing out the many-sided truth of the past by letting unexpected connections form.\u201dFrancis Spufford,  Evening Standard\n\u201c. . . an unusual historian\u2014following by-ways normally overlooked by these eyes more firmly fixed on the mainstream.&nbsp; We should treasure his waywardness.\u201d&nbsp;Paul Lay, History Today\n\n\u201c. . . a shrewd and cynical commentator.\u201dPenelope Lively, Daily Telegraph\n\u201cThe historical material he gathers is designed to suggest that if you are saddened by seeing green fields built over, if you oppose giant road schemes, if you think Britain is overpopulated, then you are probably a racist and a fascist, and do not deserve to have your arguments taken seriously.\u201dJohn Carey Sunday Times\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201c. . . a sensitive, ultra-thoughtful explorer of [the] national necropolis. With a large torch and copious notes he invites the reader to a number of meandering guided tours well off the main footpaths, some to disreputable tombs ignored by the many official study parties busy on this or that \u2018Great Tradition\u2019\u201d.Tom Nairn, The Guardian \n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick Wright is&nbsp; Emeritus Professor of Literature, History and Politics at King\u2019s College London. Many publishers have fled. No agents have survived. Details and contact here.\n @tattery\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n{image 29 caption=\"Patrick Wright at Prora (Shona Illingworth)\"}\n\n\n\n\t{image 27 scale=\"5\"}\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Patrick Wright\nNews and Recent Publications\nPublished Books&nbsp;\nContact\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\u201cWright is a wandering, disestablished scholar whose method is to walk and talk.\u201d","content_partial_html":"<h2><br>\n<a href=\"About-Patrick\" rel=\"history\">About Patrick Wright<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"News-and-Recent-publications\" rel=\"history\">News and Recent Communications<\/a><br><a href=\"Book-list\" rel=\"history\">Books<\/a>&nbsp;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/professor-patrick-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Contact (via King\u2019s College London)<\/a><\/h2><br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"6874\" height=\"2123\" width_o=\"6874\" height_o=\"2123\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9ab85c54928870e072ab3b04bf11df4dcca5f12933e3956ca60ceee130309192\/Scan1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87142766\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Patrick Wright at Jacques Meillon&rsquo;s summer farm, Espoune, Hautes-Pyr&eacute;n&eacute;es, 1997 (photo: Michael Thomas)\" data-caption=\"Patrick Wright at Jacques Meillon\u2019s summer farm, Espoune, Hautes-Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es, 1997 (photo: Michael Thomas)\"\/>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>The Praesidium<\/h1>
46\n<br>\n\n\t<br>\n\t\n<img width=\"700\" height=\"460\" width_o=\"700\" height_o=\"460\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/49a58754a8ef95a4693b6083956ddffcc36458cc4c12445581b4c349b0cbe570\/21.jpg\" data-mid=\"87146438\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"77\" alt=\"Art students' float at Public Against Violence demonstration, Bratislava 1990\" data-caption=\"Art students' float at Public Against Violence demonstration, Bratislava 1990\"\/>\n\n\t\n<br><br>\n<h1><br>\nPick Your Own<\/h1>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t<i> <\/i>\n\t<h1>\u201cWright is a wandering, disestablished scholar whose method is to walk and talk.\u201d\n<\/h1>\nNeal Ascherson, <i>London Review of Books<\/i><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<h1>\u201c I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been a more original British cultural historian over the last forty years than Patrick Wright . . . he\u2019s always textured, droll, a diviner who addresses topics and intuits significance years\u2014often decades\u2014before other more garlanded commentators.\u201d<\/h1><br>\n\nSukhdev Sandhu, The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, New York University.<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cThis is the most depressing book I have read in years... It is ghastly to imagine the sort of ghoul who could wring so much as a furtive snigger from the calamities Wright logs.\u201dJohn Carey, <i>Sunday Times<\/i><\/h1>\n\n\t\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cThe disturbing questions he raises are at the heart of our current crisis of national identity.\u201d<\/h1>Claire Harman, <i>TLS<\/i><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cWright . . . is not a&nbsp; biographer or a journalist but a sort of spirit-ethnographer, patient and attentive to change and complexity\u201d.<\/h1>Ben Ratliff, 4Columns<br>\n<br><br>\n<h1>\u201cA work of wit, style and waggish erudition. I was informed and delighted by its originality.\u201d\n\n<\/h1>John Le Carr\u00e9 (on <i>Iron Curtain<\/i>)<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201cThe publishers\u2019 blurb states, \u2018<i>Tank<\/i> is not a conventional work of military history.\u2019&nbsp; Amen to that\u201d<br>\nJohn Keegan, TLS,<br><br>\n<br>\u201c. . . thorough, discerning, compassionate but not all-licensing...\u201d.Max de Gaynesford, <i>London Magazine<\/i><br><br>\n<br>\n\"Is there a house of history to stand as neighbour beside Henry James's house of fiction? If there is, Patrick Wright will have a window all to himself, glittering with different, intense and jewelled fragments: a John Piper or Robert C
46olquhoun of a window.\"<\/h1>\n\nFred Inglis, <i>The Independent<\/i>\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n&nbsp;<h1>\u201cI have owned this book for three weeks now but it looks as if I have owned it for three decades, a condition derived from the number of times I have thrown it across various rooms.\u201d&nbsp;<\/h1><h1><span style=\"font-size: 16.2062px;\">Byron Rogers, <i>Literary Review<\/i><\/span><\/h1><br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . shrewd, wry and fiercely intelligent.\u201d&nbsp;<br><\/h1>William Boyd<h1><br>\n<br>\nHere is a city dweller with the gusto of Baudelaire and the eye of Jane Jacobs who, undeterred by dogshit and bullshit, enjoys the chaotic humanity, the ironic architectural juxtapositions, the esprit de jeu of late twentieth century London.\u201d &nbsp;<\/h1>David Widgery, <i>Independent on Sunday<\/i>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . a living national treasure of a rather weird variety: a historian who uses the imagistic logic of a fiction writer in the service of explanation, drawing out the many-sided truth of the past by letting unexpected connections form.\u201d<\/h1>Francis Spufford, <i> Evening Standard<\/i>\n<br><br><h1>\u201c. . . an unusual historian\u2014following by-ways normally overlooked by these eyes more firmly fixed on the mainstream.&nbsp; We should treasure his waywardness.\u201d&nbsp;<\/h1>Paul Lay, <i>History Today<\/i><br><br>\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . a shrewd and cynical commentator.\u201d<\/h1>Penelope Lively,<i> Daily Telegraph<\/i><br><br>\n<br><h1>\u201cThe historical material he gathers is designed to suggest that if you are saddened by seeing green fields built over, if you oppose giant road schemes, if you think Britain is overpopulated, then you are probably a racist and a fascist, and do not deserve to have your arguments taken seriously.\u201d<\/h1>John Carey<i> Sunday Times<\/i><br><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<h1>\u201c. . . a sensitive, ultra-thoughtful explorer of [the] national necropolis. With a large torch and copious notes he invites the reader to a number of meandering guided tours well off the main footpaths, some to disreputable tombs ignored by the many official study parties busy on this or that \u2018Great Tradition\u2019\u201d.<\/h1>Tom Nairn, <i>The Guardian<\/i><br><br><br><h1><\/h1><span style=\"font-size: 14.1223px;\"><i><\/i><\/span> \n<br>\n<br>\n\t<br><br>\n<br>\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<i><\/i><br>\n\n\t\n\t\n<br>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h1>Patrick Wright is&nbsp; Emeritus Professor of Literature, History and Politics at King\u2019s College London. Many publishers have fled. No agents have survived. Details and contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/professor-patrick-wright\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><br>\n @tattery<br><\/h1>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"700\" height=\"394\" width_o=\"700\" height_o=\"394\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ad0d9d0dcb7b0b59ba5eb7351e7842c724e2336a38b5d88050040dc1ef58941\/A002C407_171201Z0_CANON-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88588144\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Patrick Wright at Prora (Shona Illingworth)\" data-caption=\"Patrick Wright at Prora (Shona Illingworth)\"\/>\n<br><br>\n<br><br>\n\n\t<img width=\"74\" height=\"100\" width_o=\"74\" height_o=\"100\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8edda485c17acd7abb1c44f50c6ff12ab09d4721017bbdc3c5c73df39b2ee980\/head.gif\" data-mid=\"87147297\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"5\"\/>\n<br><br>\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2><br>\n<a href=\"About-Patrick\" rel=\"history\">About Patrick Wright<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"News-and-Recent-publications\" rel=\"history\">News and Recent Publications<br>\nPublished Books<\/a>&nbsp;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/professor-patrick-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Contact<\/a><\/h2><br>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n<br><h1>\u201cWright is a wandering, disestablished scholar whose method is to walk and talk.\u201d<\/h1>","thumb":"87142766","thumb_meta":{"thumbnail_crop":{"percentWidth":"323.7870937352802","marginLeft":-111.894,"marginTop":0,"imageModel":{"id":87142766,"project_id":15993944,"image_ref":"{image 21}","name":"Scan1.jpeg","hash":"9ab85c54928870e072ab3b04bf11df4dcca5f12933e3956ca60ceee130309192","width":6874,"height":2123,"sort":0,"exclude_from_backdrop":false,"date_added":"1604053200"},"stored":{"ratio":30.884492289788,"crop_ratio":"1x1"},"cropManuallySet":true}},"thumb_is_visible":false,"sort":18,"index":0,"set_id":15993942,"page_options":{"using_local_css":true,"local_css":"[local-style=\"15993944\"] .container_width {\n\twidth: 50% \/*!variable_defaults*\/;\n}\n\n[local-style=\"15993944\"] body {\n}\n\n[local-style=\"15993944\"] .backdrop {\n\twidth: calc(100% - 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The Legend of the Piano Man&nbsp; \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<\/a><\/h2><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h3><a href=\"The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again\" rel=\"history\">The Sea View<br>Has Me Again:<br>Uwe Johnson <br>in Sheerness<\/a><\/h3><br>\n<h7>With filmlets by Shona Illingworth, who joined the investigation in 2017,&nbsp;<br>\nand translations from Uwe Johnson\u2019s German by Damion Searls.<\/h7><br>\n<h7>[Some of the images are arranged as click-through galleries, including the first one below]<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h7><br>\n\t\n\n\n\t\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"1.25\" grid-gutter=\"2.5\" grid-responsive=\"\"><div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"6\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"> <\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A4%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A%220.5%22%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b2eac615d011a17e5a246022318d8c65e1bda57bca1a8e7039c32c5ca06ce61b\/DSCN0146.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87497680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ahrenshoop, Fischland\" 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alt=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson&rsquo;s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\" data-caption=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson\u2019s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n<br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480034981?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\" data-caption=\"East from Prora\" data-scale=\"100\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br><h5>East from Prora<\/h5><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n\n\t<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480215336?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<br>\n<h5>South from Zingst\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<h6>A Life Beside Rivers<br><\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h5>\u201cIt would be fair to say that I have a thing for rivers. It\u2019s true, I grew up on the Peene in Anklam, the Nebel flows through G\u00fcstrow, I have traveled to and in Rostock on the Warnow, Leipzig presented me with the Pleisse and the Elster, Manhattan is surrounded by the Hudson and East and North Rivers, I also recall a Hackensack River, and for the past three years I have had on offer outside my window the River Thames where it turns into the North Sea\u201d.<br>\u2014 Uwe Johnson, \u201cAbout Myself\u201d 1977<\/h5><br><br>\n\n\t<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <\/div>\n\t\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"2448\" height=\"4352\" width_o=\"2448\" height_o=\"4352\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/69767b5a08ba173b76a49f8c8cd61f0e82e6384f885bb1c80038ac5cf7112e3d\/IMG_0712.JPG\" data-mid=\"131357618\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/><\/div><div style=\"text-align: right\"><br><\/div><br><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"1.25\" grid-gutter=\"2.5\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"6\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A5%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"600\" height=\"597\" width_o=\"600\" height_o=\"597\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6e47f23636103bbe29ae9f85b24a086c4c62e288c8386baf04d9379e43c51fbc\/H508YA-copy-1.jpg\" data-mid=\"87384117\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" data-no-zoom=\"true\" alt=\"Uwe Johnson, 1 March 1973 (Alamy)\" data-caption=\"Uwe Johnson, 1 March 1973 (Alamy)\"\/>\n<\/div>&nbsp;<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<h4>The story of a great East German novelist, and the things he thought and saw during the nine years he lived as a voluntary castaway on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.<\/h4><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br>\n<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: right\"><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>Isle of Sheppey cemetery,<br>Halfway<\/h6>\n<br>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480060261?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h5><\/h5><h5><i><\/i><\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h5>\u201cHe was a kind man often misunderstood because of his abrupt manner. He had no time for idle conversation or banalities. He sparred with words. He was a verbal heavyweight, an intellectual whose politics were very much to the left.\u201d<\/h5><h5>\u2014 Martin Aynscomb Harris (artist and Johnson\u2019s neighbour in Sheerness), March 1984.<\/h5><h5><i><\/i><\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480215155?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><br>\n<h5><\/h5><h5><i><\/i><\/h5><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h5>\u201cNow it\u2019s quiet, the asphalt mirror of Riverside Drive shows us the treetops in their close friendship with the sky.\u201d<\/h5><h5>\u2014 Uwe Johnson, after a storm in New York City, <i>Anniversaries IV<\/i><\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>The Writer <br>Who Chose a New Name<br><\/h6>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h7>Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in \nthe small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the <i>Kent Evening Post<\/i>. \u201cCharles\u201d was the name he offered to his new acquaintances, and he didn\u2019t encourage curiosity about his past or the circumstances that had brought him to their town.<\/h7><br>\n\n<br>\n<\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/edfbbd743ebe1b671305353f7c8befc82b561d5c03f131e5643016fdcd9760ed\/DSCN0172.jpg\" data-mid=\"88953535\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"65\"\/><br><\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"1.25\" grid-gutter=\"2.5\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><h7>The novelist Uwe Johnson was born in 1934 in\nCammin, Pomerania, and lived his first ten years with his parents and sister in\nAnklam, where his father, a trained agriculturalist, worked as supervisor of a dairy. In\n1944, he was sent inland to board at a German Home School run by the SS in\nKosten (now Koscian and in Poland). <br><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A6%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3231\" height=\"2079\" width_o=\"3231\" height_o=\"2079\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/orig
46inal\/i\/5c4c6f96986a40fadbc5e1b0fee0a3b3952d3cac7beb3425ea51752683f5f6fb\/Scan-34-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91328466\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Amidon Remy, Postcard of the German Empire, c. 1910\" data-caption=\"Amidon Remy, Postcard of the German Empire, c. 1910\"\/>\n<\/div><br>\n<br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A7%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1819\" height=\"1288\" width_o=\"1819\" height_o=\"1288\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/829500635ead8687adc76162e8e919f2aef100207f68b089e7fdf9fc80bddc51\/IMG_0114.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91674823\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shell, road map of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, 1930s.\" data-caption=\"Shell, road map of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, 1930s.\"\/>\n<\/div><br><br>\nAs the Red Army advanced from the\nEast in 1945, Johnson and his family joined the chaotic flight west, finding\nrefuge in the small estate village of Recknitz, in Mecklenburgh, <br><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A8%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/dfeb2f9cf9e29300ec183889645f80721c126b16e9fe6d60843ca7f4e704aae0\/1.--Smithy-window-DSCN0720.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447858\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Recknitz\" data-caption=\"Recknitz\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b91f57c8aa04dccc7e3ae773d730c553c1159d2960557db968407de55dbd93bb\/2.-Smith-wall-DSCN0721.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447859\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c74cf4f6732cfc22244f81a2169d19803030b3830cefdf33513fc2a326359441\/3.-Old-Smith-side.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447860\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/03eed7eda520b92a9fdb00fb5aa777061b5e67dd72e5ffd92485f7a490182af9\/4.-The-Old-Smithy.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447861\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/03eed7eda520b92a9fdb00fb5aa777061b5e67dd72e5ffd92485f7a490182af9\/4.-The-Old-Smithy.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447861\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/164bd6d41073e2108af38e1179ef491226cceddc9b1915c6bda092c2a0eb5656\/5.-The-Old-Smithy.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447863\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/babab656ed23d9f98d766015263849035b5e63f0c84c7ed709cc78077742288f\/6.-Garden-with-logs-and--hens.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447864\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d987c6be84894f0f38ceb899436422fcfb16dbb629d99805a5fbd8701c22bd38\/7.-Barn.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447865\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/300af1f984f007c1f1ef36a300767c8d74b9ccb1c14742d9c23c9d16f04d9ff1\/8.-Barns.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447866\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d987c6be84894f0f38ceb899436422fcfb16dbb629d99805a5fbd8701c22bd38\/7.-Barn.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447865\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/733d05aef031273fd7d18750e8ad0f06d78a84c7b6e12750982e6c4c31945ecb\/9.-Barn-door.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447867\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/45caf845c4b32d88b5c9a54c1
46705925c5c74bb14ff9dcaf7f59859f46c915e78\/14.5-old-mortar-by-church-tower.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447873\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/75fd1632b55dbeece082b1820fd44d1a4aaa12ed5d243056d7e3d027b274a470\/14-St-Bartholomews-Church.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447872\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b3a6b9c3f4a5955d5af2a982aeed323f26ae41d77d14a99cef26690b39ee43b4\/10.-Owl-sign.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447868\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2a795495f81cb17ca8269999ed0f2b23bec7f779a735672588fa67f1f8a15a1a\/11.-Augraben-ditch.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447869\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f17bded011df53d66688342c450d25d3146b239f76c2eab31d557cac56bd8ac9\/12.-Augraben-ditch.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447870\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/114c817390a28b72f31db9bc83c7aaea6525ac2f8622229e6e9fc1a3b7003a69\/13.-Churchyard-gate.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447871\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4872181dcd972eb61407042a22e6e8b2ff53020ac86f21a01f359693a5c4d456\/15.-House-from-Churchyard.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447874\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Recknitz\" data-caption=\"Recknitz\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7094ff018649fae7c289b0daded86501fe5f88045e2621c3375e0151757a704f\/16.-Memorial.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447875\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div>where they stayed with Johnson\u2019s paternal\naunt and brother-in-law at the smithy. The father was incarcerated by the\nRussians shortly afterwards, and never seen again (he was declared dead a few\nyears later). From Recknitz, the family then moved to the nearby town of G\u00fcstrow&nbsp;<br>\n<br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A9%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/093b3d89c6e6bb98a24dcf58c4503d82dba47ce2634ebfe8995b917602e4243b\/Gustrow-3.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448725\" border=\"0\" alt=\"G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e1953a4e4b2e202b4c217cb47e13d8f9b4a0c0ec6e698ded62defc000f23ae57\/Gustrow-3.6..jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448726\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6e1142b4c25e494934e975c738d4c79e7639bc5e82eab18ce2dd8ab045f9d03d\/Gustrow-3.7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448727\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8696161775b539c7715a4c14472f87d031242609537e95fb7c608ef37f23f37e\/Guatrow-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448717\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/31fb3984e89cef09f65e1075db56483e6f3acddbae636fd51da16e2fb53a337d\/Gustrow-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448728\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c923bc8b7aa23d02444125934f65ad
46d6f2ffa60b9bbcb916e4627ecec7b336d9\/Gustrow-6.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448731\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a96f5fad504f2387259856117da8595b5ef68d92a82b38e8c76efe28dfd9beae\/Gustrow-7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448741\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/65385bb9242df615d0363497755fa3236c4980f75cf1eebc32c45cf8ea115222\/Gustrow-8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448752\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0e53ddd38f734d98de002e62d834a6f0875a1d54eeaaaa032449663498d0b656\/Gustrow-9.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448754\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1077\" height=\"729\" width_o=\"1077\" height_o=\"729\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6eaec632d809756e4895730a50cc7b0467d81fb87b5269511db90f181d47364a\/Guatrow-11.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448721\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div>where Johnson attended high school\nat the John Brinckman Gymnasium.<br>\n<br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A10%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4cd3f858719808183effc3f5c3c1fe25a39e617751480c7e4b029010dc7ad22a\/Gustrow-1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448722\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/71664c07cc0c29bcbc1f4ae31195233410b296b63bed87438dfef32fe8fdf7f4\/Gustrow-2.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448723\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"768\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f0bfc44e62f9afcba48a9c6cdc8b23e5ae475ca2cdb6076376f947306bd8ef6a\/Gustrow-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448724\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<\/div><br>In 1952 he went to the University at the Baltic port and city of Rostock,&nbsp;<br>\n<br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A11%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3322\" height=\"4429\" width_o=\"3322\" height_o=\"4429\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/04aaf76b68cc8b62793e8530b79f8cacb3425bc26d887f1aa7c5e9f05263df18\/DSCN1308.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91417308\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rostock University\" data-caption=\"Rostock University\"\/>\n<\/div>where he studied German language and\nliterature for two years before being barred from continuing after speaking out in\ndefence of the rights of increasingly persecuted Christian students. In\n1954-6, he continued his education at Karl-Marx-University in Leipzig, where he\nstudied under Hans Mayer, an independent Marxist literary scholar, who had\nreturned to East Germany from the west in the first years of the new state but was already\nfalling out with the authorities. He rejected their claims about\nsocialist realism and&nbsp;insisting, against official decree, that his\nstudents should study the works of modern western writers. They read&nbsp; Joyce,\nSartre and also William Faulkner, whose southern novels were to become a major\ninfluence on Johnson, who knew what it was for a nation to live with a \u201ctainted past\u201d. <br>\n<br>\n<\/h7><h7>In 1959, Johnson moved to the West, later\nclaiming that he did so for \u201creasons of hygiene\u201d but not as a refugee who might\nbe expected to denounce the GDR and all it stood for as he picked up\nsubsidies and other advantages available to those who accepted that\nform of assimilation. He published three novels over the followng six\nyears: <i>Speculations About Jakob (1959), The Third Book About\nAchim (1961), andTwo Views<\/i> (1965). These<\/h7><br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><h7> bought him a prodigious\nreputation as the so called \u201cwriter (dichter) of the divided Germany\u201d, a clich\u00e9 he greatly\ndisliked. He also came under sometimes vitriolic attack from zealots on both\nsides of the political spectrum.<\/h7><br>\n<br>\n<h7>Johnson addressed these difficulties by travelling out from hemmed-in West Berlin. He spent a\nyear on a West German government stipend in Rome&nbsp; in 1962, and later made\nvarious trips to America: first in 1961, again in 1965, and then for a longer\nperiod of residence in New York City from 1966-8. The latter stay was\nmade possible by the publisher Helen Wolff, who employed him to prepare a\ntextbook of post-war German literature (from both 
46sides of the. division) aimed\nat American high school students. <br>\n<br>\nJohnson had been feted as the writer who had done more than any other to create\na kind of novel capable of articulating the division of Germany into two states with\none terrible and guilty past. Conceived\nand started during the two years, 1966-1968, during which he lived in New York\nCity, the final multi-volume novel that Johnson came to Sheerness in order to complete,\nwent beyond Germany to engage a world divided by the Cold War. Each chapter of <i>Anniversaries: from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl <\/i>would take a day in the year extending from 21 August 1967 to 20 August\n1968, and it would be written as experienced by Gesine Cresspahl and her ten-year\nold daughter Marie in New York City. Structured as a conversation between\nthe two, the narrative would proceed through the events of that\nmomentous year: the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the\nassassination of Kennedy etc. It would also explore the longer historical\nexperience of the Cresspahl family as it\u2019s generations had lived through the\ntraumas and crimes of the twentieth century in Mecklenburg and elsewhere.&nbsp; <br>\n<br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A12%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4188\" height=\"4605\" width_o=\"4188\" height_o=\"4605\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ef69a553f812765886d4de4d91ceed204007295ed2e759c2d50943bfaeb3f49\/Fig-9.1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89015462\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UJ at Michael Hamburger&rsquo;s house, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 1966 (photo: R. Hamburger)\" data-caption=\"UJ at Michael Hamburger\u2019s house, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 1966 (photo: R. Hamburger)\"\/>\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"768\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cda492de2f3e4e805d97ba0a02730dd10bc4ebb127cf24bf7ad1cad0d6d0bd5e\/773A9505-1BB9-45A9-BBCA-8429FA04E35C_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89493101\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Literaturhaous Uwe Johnson, Kl&uuml;tz, Mecklenburg\" data-caption=\"Literaturhaous Uwe Johnson, Kl\u00fctz, Mecklenburg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<br>\nHaving started work on this massive novel in\nNew York City, Johnson continued after his return to Berlin. Suhrkamp published\nthe first volume in 1970, the second in 1971 and the third in 1974. It was\nin order to complete the fourth and final volume that Johnson then decided\nto remove himself, his wife and their daughter from an increasingly disruptive&nbsp; life in West Berlin and resettle in England. His migration\nwas made possible by the Swiss writer\nMax Frisch, who offered to lend Johnson the money he would need to buy a house in England where he could concentrate on his work. Having chosen a property on the Isle of Sheppey, he took care to\nensure that his neighbours knew very little about him. He would remain in\nSheerness for nearly a decade, moving into 26 Marine Parade with his wife and\ndaughter towards the end of 1974 and remaining there until his death, aged 49,\nin February 1984. &nbsp;<br>\n<\/h7>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"1.25\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A13%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1136\" height=\"543\" width_o=\"1136\" height_o=\"543\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/610c76151671fa826f2e8af810e98324597023165edb00d3147c9727fbe6a803\/Uwe-Johnson-am-Inselsee-Guestrow-1953-F.jpg\" data-mid=\"90090827\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UJ overlooking the Inselsee, G&uuml;strow, 1953 (photo: Heinz Lehmbecker)\" data-caption=\"UJ overlooking the Inselsee, G\u00fcstrow, 1953 (photo: Heinz Lehmbecker)\"\/>\n<\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A14%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e8140fa8fdc9a7eea2784fbc52142eb0666d0e66b605fbe484522f1cd0acfd93\/IMG_2799-1-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93189052\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Meadow and woo
46ds near Rosenhagen, Mecklenburgh, 31 May 2016 (a landscape of the kind Johnson would keep stacked up in the &quot;cellar of memories&quot; that was his basement office in Sheerness)\" data-caption=\"Meadow and woods near Rosenhagen, Mecklenburgh, 31 May 2016 (a landscape of the kind Johnson would keep stacked up in the &quot;cellar of memories&quot; that was his basement office in Sheerness)\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><img width=\"3050\" height=\"1715\" width_o=\"3050\" height_o=\"1715\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0182b9e77a38f7377e6a51419c8215a099e179b306f63baaca7c53064bec5e03\/Sheppey-scene--nr-Queenborough.JPG\" data-mid=\"108078365\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough\" data-caption=\"Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough\"\/><br><h5>Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br><br><div style=\"text-align: center\"><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h6>Two Memorials to the Dead<br>\n of the Great War&nbsp;<br>\n(1914-18)<\/h6><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A15%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7aca726df247077ed3a635ae05c02bd2e4671229e66a8be71028794571e6d9fc\/Hovering-Angel.jpg\" data-mid=\"92766076\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ernst Barlach, Hovering Angel, G&uuml;strow Cathedral\" data-caption=\"Ernst Barlach, Hovering Angel, G\u00fcstrow Cathedral\"\/>\n<\/div><br><h5>Barlach\u2019s non-militaristic memorial was commissioned in 1926 and hangs in G\u00fcstrow Cathedral. Johnson wrote a dissertation on Barlach \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barlach-haus.de\/en\/museum\/collection\/\">who lived in G\u00fcstrow<\/a> and was among the first artists to be declared \u201cdegenerate\u201d by the Nazis \u2014 while studying in Leipzig, in the fifties.&nbsp; He had a cast of Barlach\u2019s carving of two <a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/sculptures\/figurative-sculptures\/ernst-barlach-ernst-barlach-sculpture-schlaffende-vagabunden-sleeping-drifters-1912\/id-a_127536\/\">\u201cSleeping Vagabonds\u201d<\/a> in his house at Sheerness.<\/h5>\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"4\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"4\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A16%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"665\" height=\"1182\" width_o=\"665\" height_o=\"1182\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9ed79d3c7e970c0d80b49227550798d539675b3360f78d8d2706cc82da1d4940\/232BAD63-452D-44EE-93D9-D9F1CEBD28E4_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91330345\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"4\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h5>Sheerness\u2019s memorial to serving men and civilian dockyard workers lost in the Great War, as photographed on 26 July 2013. The picture at the base shows Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered by Islamists at Woolwich seven weeks earlier. Johnson used this monument as an orientation point for visitors making their way to his house from the railway station opposite.<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br>\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>Man, Reef or \u201cthe Brazen Edge <br>\nof Our Crazy World\u201d?<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x11\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A17%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/65fbfdb5c8d875125c400545748e6d0c623cc334d01933064aa17e681d35e9d5\/IMG_2986.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89956936\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Wieland F&ouml;rster, portrait stele of Uwe Johnson, outside John Brinkman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow, 2006\" data-caption=\"Wieland F\u00f6rster, portrait stele of Uwe Johnson, &lt;br&gt;outside John Brinkman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow, 2006\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x11\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A18%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ec54166ed058c73892cf94034fdf9c8aef98081bdffca82f18271218deeafeaf\/IMG_2987.jpg\" data-mid=\"90620213\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Easter Island Man (Whelan&rsquo;s Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness)\" data-caption=\"Easter Island Man (Whelan\u2019s Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness)\"\/>\n<\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<h5>As friends and acquaintances in Germany already knew, Johnson could be a challenging man: volatile and 
46yet blunt too, and sometimes completely inaccessible. The initially East German writer and politician, Gerhard Zwerenz, described him as \u201ca statue of lost cultures\u201d like the \u201cinscrutable monoliths\u201d of Easter Island. After visiting the Johnsons shortly after their arrival in Sheerness, Gunter Kunert looked back to glimpse him waving from the doorstep: a teetering \u201ccolossus\u201d who might at any moment fall and break over his own wife and daughter. Though a unique example of the type, \u201cCharles\u201d\n was by no means the first brazened-off twentieth century man to take refuge on the Isle of Sheppey.<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>The Bush of Memory<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490853307?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\" data-scale=\"100\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h5>Fischland, Staten Island, Isle of Sheppey?<\/h5><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<br>\n<h5>Johnson arrived in England from West Berlin, but he came with memories of other places too:&nbsp; the flat Baltic landscapes of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, to be sure, but also New York \u2014 a city that stood at the centre of <i>Anniversaries,<\/i> the four-volume novel he would eventually complete in England. &nbsp;<br><br>While living on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side&nbsp; in 1968, Johnson had written and read the text for <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/summerinthecity\">\u201dSummer in the City\u201d<\/a>, a film&nbsp; by the German-born American director Christian Blackwood for West German television.<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"738\" height=\"540\" width_o=\"738\" height_o=\"540\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d4450097c11184578ec654b790ba0c4a96db3a7baeb1ccbc974fc4ca3f626ede\/Fig-9.3.png\" data-mid=\"89890214\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"65\" alt=\"Missing caption\" data-caption=\"Missing caption\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<h5><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">Blackwood\u2019s original idea was to show Johnson talking with people as he led the camera around the Upper West Side he had come to know while living in an apartment building on Riverside Drive. He eventually decided against appearing in the film, instead providing Blackwood with recommended locations and writing the text he then read as the film\u2019s commentary.&nbsp; In this he&nbsp; praises the activism and the diversity of the \u201cslum\u201d he would, in <i>Anniveraries,<\/i>&nbsp; liken to a mobile jellyfish slithering about among the brownstones. He remains silent when Blackwood takes his camera into the transvestite world.<br>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/h5><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>The Island<\/h6><br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A19%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2721\" height=\"1469\" width_o=\"2721\" height_o=\"1469\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7e19d3c125a82bd012d11e4a154bfa4cab4ce9b1cc595c98bbdb160b821535ca\/IMG_0921-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"90982169\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Isle of Sheppey from Bellevue Road, Whitstable\" data-caption=\"The Isle of Sheppey from Bellevue Road, Whitstable\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cI am reliably informed about a place where it seems to be no coincidence that a cul-de-sac in this country is not called that, or a <i>dead-end street<\/i>, but a <i>blind alley<\/i>. That would already be something\u201d <br>\n\u2014 UJ, letter to Max Frisch, 4 August 1974<br><br>
46\n\u201cThe chalky, swampy fields on the island are really not at all <i>Garden of England<\/i> (if indeed any tourist can stand this smug catchphrase any longer than from Dover to Canterbury)\u201d<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br>\n \n\n\n\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A20%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3227\" height=\"2026\" width_o=\"3227\" height_o=\"2026\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ed5930cd0a55481c30765453e037eaf185540ca89df901357346f2f932cc6d48\/North-Kent-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87389178\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;Everything is perfect - even the Road is passable - and as hard as rock.&rdquo; &ldquo;Johnson&rdquo; to Mrs Miller Valentine&rsquo;s postcard c. 1955\" data-caption=\"\u201cEverything is perfect - even the Road is passable - and as hard as rock.\u201d \u201cJohnson\u201d to Mrs Miller Valentine\u2019s postcard c. 1955\"\/>\n<img width=\"2847\" height=\"1640\" width_o=\"2847\" height_o=\"1640\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1225df7a3985e25a84671af04a67f870f1e72f9c6c1f6ab32976257a1e7cb696\/IMG_0124.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87632326\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3191\" height=\"2049\" width_o=\"3191\" height_o=\"2049\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/79d8bb66e578d39126eec6a14eacf9e46b28658de969b1e01da504711026da73\/Sheppey--copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87389055\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;I&rsquo;m enjoying myself trying to put the garden to rights as well as mixing cement for Harry. It&rsquo;s a lark.&rdquo; Hankie to Milly, Valentine&rsquo;s postcard, c. 1965\" data-caption=\"\u201cI\u2019m enjoying myself trying to put the garden to rights as well as mixing cement for Harry. It\u2019s a lark.\u201d Hankie to Milly, Valentine\u2019s postcard, c. 1965\"\/>\n<img width=\"3204\" height=\"2069\" width_o=\"3204\" height_o=\"2069\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b9a74e5dfa7c489a9083590ed582b4406eccecc3439c61e74afcdc53f9da6e74\/Scan-4-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87389279\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h5>Not always a lark:<br>cement on Sheppey<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"2\" grid-gutter=\"4\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"2\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"2\"><br>\n<h7>The Isle of Sheppey is a small,\nlow-lying and watery place of some thirty-six\nsquare miles in extent. <br><br>It lies on the eastern shore of\nthe&nbsp; Medway, where this no longer naval river flows into the&nbsp; outer\nreaches of the Thames Estuary. <br><br>On its western side, it emerges from\nthe water, in a marshy and noncommittal kind of way, not far\nfrom a bone-strewn mudbank called \u201cDead Man\u2019s Island\u201d. <br><br>To\nthe south, once you get past the landfill site at Ladies Hole\nPoint, the island is dominated by marshes and separated from the\nmainland by a tidal strait known as the Swale. <br><br>The\nnorthern shore is formed by a ridge of London Clay, which&nbsp; emerges near Sheerness-on-Sea and rises as it proceeds towards the eastern shore of the island, reach\u00a7ing its highest point\nof some seventy-six metres above sea level at Minster, a village\nat the early Christian site where St Sexburga,&nbsp; widow of the Anglo-Saxon&nbsp; King Eorcenberht of Kent, established a convent in 664 AD.<br>\n\n\n<br>Such basic facts\nmust be allowed, and yet the \u201cIsle\nof Sheep\u201d, as Sheppey\u2019s originally Saxon name \u201cSceapig\u201d\ndescribes it, remains variously suggestive in\nits separation from the mainland.<br><br>Not just an island, it is also a strange oscillation, a place where paradise keeps collapsing into the bleakest kind of slum.  &nbsp;<br><\/h7>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><h7><img width=\"452\" height=\"384\" width_o=\"452\" height_o=\"384\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ae11cd2b6c78904f84844fbd3ca6358d85f9f682bc4e89129ef3af32eece2fc6\/phone.png\" data-mid=\"87145349\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"72\"\/><\/h7><\/div><br>\n<br>\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"2\"><br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"3185\" height=\"2113\" width_o=\"3185\" height_o=\"2113\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d1dabe478bc3b4d22f747b4ddeeb32282c143abf83254b36ba1d4446edcba317\/The-Ship-on-Shore-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87288099\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" alt=\"The Ship on Shore, Sheerness  &ldquo;Having bad weather here,&rdquo; postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913.\" data-caption=\"The Ship on Shore, Sheerness  \u201cHaving bad weather here,\u201d postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913.\"\/><\/div>\n\t\n\t<h7>The Ship on Shore, Sheerness<br>\n \u201cHaving bad weather here,\u201d postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913. This pub grotto, was assembled from a salvaged ship, said&nbsp; to have run aground loaded with barrels that turned out, disappointingly for some,&nbsp; to be filled with Portland cement.<\/h7><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4cc817b176e5448578f516402743cacdae9d9525ce5b03cd47bacae0575a5508\/0E0243B5-C566-45E4-88A4-AA1514A86B5C_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91210601\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Bethel Chaoel, Blue Town, now 0art of Andre Whelan's &quot;
46gnome factory&quot; (aka&quot; Whelan's Garden Ornaments)\" data-caption=\"The Bethel Chaoel, Blue Town, now 0art of Andre Whelan's &quot;gnome factory&quot; (aka&quot; Whelan's Garden Ornaments)\"\/><br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/be332483eeada42c1056f12e5b847dbae47821d6860d28c0d29f640901e14cae\/IMG_1112.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88179446\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/><br><img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/56bc4be819b7ceb58991ab99470d7a2266aa5373476c85fad561f5e20a76bc5f\/IMG_1113.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88179477\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/><\/div><h7>Shipwright preacher William Shrubsole\u2019s Bethel Chapel, Blue Town, Sheerness, now part of Whelan\u2019s Garden Ornaments (aka \u201cthe gnome factory\u201d)<\/h7>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"1738\" height=\"1288\" width_o=\"1738\" height_o=\"1288\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3bec965ae98c4a32b2253b77f9a832a664cde0d713a4b5f6e6a2fb01d23a2c99\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.10.33.png\" data-mid=\"89524498\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/><\/div> <h7>Definitely Not Berlin.<br>\n \u201cRusticated\u201d sea wall<b>, <\/b>designed by Garnham Wright Associates&nbsp; and built along Marine Parade in 1983-4.&nbsp;<\/h7><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A21%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f27cb4be599ae2e4ebc1b310063de5cd0d1de060d865435b1dc3e9c380df3036\/A5C28ECF-4974-4CD1-B6CF-6C3EA9B56E34_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88696027\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" alt=\"HMGov, Sheppey Prison Cluster, Eastchurch\" data-caption=\"HMGov, Sheppey Prison Cluster, Eastchurch\"\/>\n<\/div><br><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"2\" class=\"\"><br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cCall it England or call it Sheppey, the island looks tiny on conventional maps: little more than a mudbank about eight miles across at its broadest point, and eleven in length. Those, however, are not the only dimensions that matter. While writing this book, I have learned to sympathise with the man from Gillingham, eight or so miles upstream along the Medway, who decided \u2014 a full six years before the Brexit referendum of 2016 \u2014 to buy himself a small motorboat via the internet and put to sea with the aim of navigating his way around Great Britain...<br>\n\n<br>After studying a road atlas, he concluded that he only had to keep the land on his right-hand side in order to end the first stretch of his journey at Southampton. Having proceeded on this assumption for a day and a half, he ran out of fuel and found nhimself stuck in the mud near some tidal marshes. The lifeboat that came to rescue this slow voyager from his predicament guided him to the quayside at Queenborough where an officer of the coastguard service briskly informed him that he had all the time been circling the Isle of Sheppey: \u2018He had no idea of the magnitude of the journey he was undertaking\u201d\u2019<br>\n<br>Since this unidentified Englishman \u2014 he was, as I recall, rudely dismissed as a \u201cdopey sailor\u201d by the island\u2019s newspaper \u2014 insisted on resuming his journey once refuelled, we may assume that he too had by then seen enough to know not just that small can be large, but also that life isn\u2019t necessarily at its richest when it is predictable or easy.\u201d (<i>Sea View<\/i>, pp, 8-9)<\/h5><br><br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br><br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n<h6>Sheppey,&nbsp; more or less West to East<\/h6><\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A22%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ea6b812deb04bcb94560deb8e033686c535ac7a3e861f1650f961ce50995adf2\/IMG_0938.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88181787\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Looking West across Dead Man's Island and the Medway from Rushenden Hill   \" data-caption=\"Looking West across Dead Man's Island and the Medway from Rushenden Hill   \"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/41ee1e7ccc444f44f6f203dc9fb364e37336c5cb65b5dd9a3d1c0e5ef9044853\/9B860873-C2B8-4D1D-83EF-BD80C12851AD_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645684\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Towards Ladies Hole Point\" data-caption=\"Towards Ladies Hole Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4133c52df9329154f85ae68c94925912da0251f8a7d315da9be96ae4340eb24a\/IMG_0872-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099653\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Queenborough, from the (non-existent) path to  Ladies Hole Point\" data-caption=\"Queenborough, from the (non-existent) path to  Ladies Hole Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ae91af30dc318dde4196bbb44d43b6ff6c3d9b2782442266ff0e87c84627541\/2EB0287C-B662-4BDE-9D21-E6DD14BB640A_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645694\" border=\"0\" alt=\"South of Queenborough\" data-caption=\"South of Queenborough\"\/>\n<img width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" width_o=\"1920\" height_o=\"1080\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5f3cfb3c6b2274747916186c013d8d99d67b66702f1d944b82c15cc58014e283\/HFY6UPPP20VIPCNDBAAG.jpg\" data-mid=\"87934003\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Sheppey Crossing, 2016\" data-caption=\"The Sheppey Crossing, 2016\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/427f9089cf8d19661b3478d7f7bf78274a9849c18153f97e6a05ee453dd9e237\/IMG_1410.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87824532\" border=\"0\" alt=\"King&rsquo;s Hill Farm, Elmley Marshes\" data-caption=\"King\u2019s Hill Farm, Elmley Marshes\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/72b382f7bc291532e1b56a1491f7029896b794e3ca4c2feb175bff959f74
4663d7\/IMG_1199.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647622\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Windblown debris, on fence surrounding the former Admiralty dockyard, Sheerness (summer)\" data-caption=\"Windblown debris, on fence surrounding the former Admiralty dockyard, Sheerness (summer)\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cacfc0d8dab5e931804d7ae25d7ca7ae7eab6b3d26cf855ccf52d9a71204d7cf\/IMG_1200.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88098550\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Northeast corner of Sir John Rennie's Georgian dockyard wall, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Northeast corner of Sir John Rennie's Georgian dockyard wall, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0e07075a17bb85c6d495a9fb158b2d38840d3e97bda283ad1c22443280095037\/IMG_1205.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88098449\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Martello towers, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Martello towers, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" width_o=\"3024\" height_o=\"4032\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/31e0f4d9bf323198fa2a287fc1966d446a344b47abaed5e00d911a3366ce4ddc\/IMG_1291.JPG\" data-mid=\"89119149\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Weathered lion, inside dockyard\" data-caption=\"Weathered lion, inside dockyard\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8c88e76ebbdbc978e634af7ff72cecc4fc8aee9a68d5abbf7fb32d54e5d0d573\/IMG_1567.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826606\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/949b358379a312a0406924ddbf235028497450f7af825517bf2e299c3b7ba98d\/IMG_1566.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826605\" border=\"0\" alt=\"19th century model of Admiralty Dockyard, Sheerness (in storage near Portsmouth)\" data-caption=\"19th century model of Admiralty Dockyard, Sheerness (in storage near Portsmouth)\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c9a30d7ad2f505734aea7c16ef1cbc74071cf902ffe5c05000fa238ff58ac820\/1E7D6B01-2BAE-43E9-A5AE-38DA2791B8D3_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645132\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Avenue leading from dockyard to Dock Church\" data-caption=\"Avenue leading from dockyard to Dock Church\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bb48fba05404725a0709c7a373b55d07b45ceef98e9bb741a1faad8d04f13565\/0DE52454-AB8F-4E19-9EDC-CEEB7FB56F84_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299609\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Admiralty dockyard, now Peel Ports.\" data-caption=\"Admiralty dockyard, now Peel Ports.\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bf6688c2077cabe226727164b6a2d6c054591307f14ed468ba6e69fd7d1540ec\/654FCBB4-E349-4170-9DF8-2576FA5482D3_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87827088\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Same debris, same fence - in winter, three years later \" data-caption=\"Same debris, same fence - in winter, three years later \"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1b1946f1f94ba07693305ff4abc74f0d696eda6f4e87c207a72a3087e5ba0ac1\/Drain--Blue-Town.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88104652\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Drain, Blue Town, Sheerness. Drains were life-savers in mid-19th century Sheerness. Sea View, 229-232 &amp; 250-258.\" data-caption=\"Drain, Blue Town, Sheerness. Drains were life-savers in mid-19th century Sheerness. Sea View, 229-232 &amp; 250-258.\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b3afb20106b6ca5292a97dae012ed31f220c998f66a447104749d8b6ff1133a3\/IMG_1121.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826145\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Footballers etc., Whelan's Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Footballers etc., Whelan's Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1742\" height=\"934\" width_o=\"1742\" height_o=\"934\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0af443b7e5b4e059110ac3d5a78f81f5a76451514413d736a45a0cc40010d610\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.05.18.png\" data-mid=\"89523353\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Diamond Jubilee decorations, the Albion, Blue Town High Street, 2012\" data-caption=\"Diamond Jubilee decorations, the Albion, Blue Town High Street, 2012\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cddbcfffd25737a78ca56ecf0d5eff49ca903c69f1761dcb004fbca0be98b427\/E62C7952-D4AB-41A7-AC87-B83775F95233_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826979\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Crescent, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"The Crescent, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1072\" height=\"861\" width_o=\"1072\" height_o=\"861\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7fff7057ea9396122183687860f3c8211a8660c10633598aceff2f01254fc522\/thumbnail_IMG_2581.jpg\" data-mid=\"89107531\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Conservative Club, Broadway, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Conservative Club, Broadway, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8a5583a881c8bdda682f326b535548ae4e9f9f55d34dd7ce64c4fa8d30d33715\/DB8AF0BE-1D3F-42F9-9606-84B10D62C8A8_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88696239\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Victoria Working Men&rsquo;s Club, Broadway, Sheerness, 1882\" data-caption=\"Victoria Working Men\u2019s Club, Broadway, Sheerness, 1882\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c38d18ba5549d454a48f0eaf739536fbe6442325070290652dffb77f5bfa6497\/26F44F2E-283C-49F1-846E-71CF19964977_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87644442\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Across the estuary\" data-caption=\"Across the estuary\"\/>\n<img width=\"724\" height=\"1086\" width_o=\"724\" height_o=\"1086\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/572db02c88bc58291793a474caa21458c5cf3ac7331f956ddfdfa71d968ddb95\/ADD8151C-DC6A-455B-9F4C-7251E5BC1FDB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87644405\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Seafront residues, Marine Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Seafront residues, Marine Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2f84d0caaa33086ffd85d1360d30db6f98f5bb9f95d5f8ad1827f004ab7e062f\/DSCN1113-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645752\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Terrace, Marine Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Neptune Terrace, Marine Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1903\" height=\"2012\" width_o=\"1903\" height_o=\"2012\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b77c7b7fb00ab76f7091713353014107ccc778c18d9e2ca73812692d404db640\/IMG_1150-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87644998\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Terrace, detail\" data-caption=\"Neptune Terrace, detail\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/59cf807b0e1ec0150a23c998b99c6
46700128f36e138621d12dcbe0edcbc9d571b\/F7743C2E-84F1-4F45-BBB7-B09AE9AF1BEF_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87827026\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Johnson's chosen street\" data-caption=\"Johnson's chosen street\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/120bd4510ecb9b6ada190024802484245d1d3bd7e486d7b04a2d0d4889a5a8d2\/F72A9032-1FC1-4ADD-8700-3123838A2D49_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645067\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (before renovation)\" data-caption=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (before renovation)\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bd44921bdfaa721cee34b8e410ac36031386dcab4bb8f4af0fcad274fe94d7bf\/IMG_1396.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88183972\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (after renovation)\" data-caption=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (after renovation)\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/945be420853122b2a2ed10248975681ee757839d5c8b551d0e90f59042fc489f\/1BCABBC7-6CD9-4835-8721-8CF6215E5C47_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87933696\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheerness Ape, Marine Town\" data-caption=\"Sheerness Ape, Marine Town\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/42038f65e0b374dd4f03d83b52924cbebc83526b7b186c1a80c52f14eac43406\/836B997C-6403-46CA-85FB-861275FFB66C_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492925\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Figurehead (replica) of HMS Forte, sea defence wall, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\" data-caption=\"Figurehead (replica) of HMS Forte, sea defence wall, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3e74b0f655a1261c94445f0973b2405cdce272ac06b3bda2acf867d618f2e2b2\/5E1A039C-8ADB-48EA-8991-B799E356E3D2_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87933628\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Barton&rsquo;s Point Coastal Park\" data-caption=\"Barton\u2019s Point Coastal Park\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cf6b9d73866d125eccda9769adfd72ab15c5145dfb3aea0493bbcfdc5514f734\/DAD94F08-8F17-493A-A76F-7FD2E639B9BA_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89774059\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Looking East towards Whitstable and Herne Bay from Warden Point\" data-caption=\"Looking East towards Whitstable and Herne Bay from Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9e0ebf3f137ffede3627ef8d58871163b1d1ae17f9c3c6d08ac203c5a0ed0efa\/IMG_1160.jpeg\" data-mid=\"94302542\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Warden Manor, home to TocH and later to the Transalpine Redemptorists, who had their Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary here (1988-1994)\" data-caption=\"Warden Manor, home to TocH and later to the Transalpine Redemptorists, who had their Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary here (1988-1994)\"\/>\n<img width=\"3207\" height=\"2881\" width_o=\"3207\" height_o=\"2881\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/db7db1fcdd7ef0d72d68393bc3727e3ac88eced0533624817de903b012fa9cf1\/DSCN1142.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645863\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Notices from a freeborn Englishman, Warden\" data-caption=\"Notices from a freeborn Englishman, Warden\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0291a4f51104dd5ec43bbaec5064d85ad3e33c84a7860f620b6621f086a32089\/CAD43E44-448A-4EF7-9E12-6732152BEC3B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099248\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;Managed retreat&rdquo; at Warden Springs Caravan Park\" data-caption=\"\u201cManaged retreat\u201d at Warden Springs Caravan Park\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/062385e67b9dfcbe05c177268ae93ae70fbdd9af29f881046cfc7edfc7e79f6f\/IMG_2598-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099234\" border=\"0\" alt=\"End of the road once known as &quot;Mud Row&quot; at Warden Point\" data-caption=\"End of the road once known as &quot;Mud Row&quot; at Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2b68f6b0e222c363545cb4f3dca9b8dbdb4b25ea87366a8b9839364ab9993d68\/IMG_2599-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099235\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;Encroachments of the sea&quot;: Warden Point\" data-caption=\"&quot;Encroachments of the sea&quot;: Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9861f9dfe3e8c27893f30bbe25dadc23f18790ff3288ce7e7ea2b0915c480a7b\/IMG_2600.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099240\" border=\"0\" alt=\"End of the road at Warden Point\" data-caption=\"End of the road at Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/82492ea998cfe3bb86b1bf04bc566240b83e12cd30cb56d06f80bf1203769228\/E38E1B13-1A1E-444A-85F7-33CBDAE6F2D9_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695301\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Warden, at Sheppey's East End\" data-caption=\"Warden, at Sheppey's East End\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/fc4e0a526312f8aa9d6273c6fc79ab86abba476593049736c3e6c90b6fb5c348\/0FB7B2DB-6C53-4E55-ABEE-5B8001DC2F70_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695367\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leysdown. At the beginning of the 20th century, a plotland developer urged customers to imagine a fine new promenade here\" data-caption=\"Leysdown. At the beginning of the 20th century, a plotland developer urged customers to imagine a fine new promenade here\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/69c6049a115e162ee7
467bce5ff4598867e0b58df2319129cdde30c97388bf07c3\/CBF9BC59-377A-4571-A87D-DF9C5AD31154_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647696\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;Bungalettes&quot; at Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"&quot;Bungalettes&quot; at Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c4838eea58e6f5a9c8318ac93ffb0248888e0fad2303de6dd6f9ec54f59e618c\/1CE0DE66-B823-4AC0-B388-E9CCCED8E8ED_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647773\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Debris, Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"Debris, Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b3f08a8c23a647c2b4245c7c25fd93487899da7f220c55cd1603226492553892\/51454A4A-7C85-4FED-B36C-9154C8B62BEB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647784\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brent Geese over Shellness\" data-caption=\"Brent Geese over Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/363aee0f885ff47345b5658ff65e333836e4ec7d794fcf927dbb8716bab8c0a1\/63BE2001-4458-4A1A-BFF8-A7FF8EDB7892_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695381\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness, former control tower\" data-caption=\"Shellness, former control tower\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0d3a6e07b4c77ca2abbdf650fa8f674516699ebc1f3ce6ce43a816c4e30b1b5d\/BC6D128F-5F7D-40B1-B237-E4AF60468B0A_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826193\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/39dd5cc6710bfb2052a1ee8c0f36d0d334c9ca7238c364bb924f3bbb73edb79e\/09F8D06A-7D04-424F-8971-BDA288C7A898_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647789\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness\" data-caption=\"Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/20933ed15cab9694b295ab7b515d7b15c5a0a8d8f47b9332e0389b50aeef63d9\/IMG_0943.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88104658\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness, looking north from Shellness Point\" data-caption=\"Shellness, looking north from Shellness Point\"\/>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>\u201cHis address was Sheppey\u201d<\/h6><br><img width=\"372\" height=\"419\" width_o=\"372\" height_o=\"419\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3677da63a117eb4ca116f3ff139ae29c64bc477c5b1a07aa9e1fb7ca5d21d232\/IMG_1892.jpg\" data-mid=\"95687170\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><h5><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\"><div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><i>Anopheles maculipennis<\/i> mosquito, photographed on a bedroom wall in Kent, 1918.&nbsp; this marsh-dwelling mosquito was a carrier of indigenous malaria, known as \u201cmarsh fever\u201d and \u201cague\u201d before it was scientifically identified by Sir Ronald Ross in India ain 1897.&nbsp; &nbsp;The infestations on Sheppey were particularly bad.&nbsp; At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Sheerness was described as \u201cthe most fever-ridden place in the whole of England.\u201d In the mid-nineteenth century, there was much concern about the impact of this pestilence on the fighting strength of the navy&nbsp; at Sheerness (hence the towen\u2019s heroic preoccupation with drainage at this time). The problem had long kept wealthy landowners and farmers from living on the island (many of the marshlands were run by \u201clookers\u201d who had no choice but to lieve below the \u201ccontour of death\u201d).&nbsp; I The affliction also recurred in the. twentieth century - not least after the First EWorld War, when the island\u2019s mosquitoes were reinfected by soldiers returning from overseas (<i>Sea View,<\/i> 205-7)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div><\/div> <\/h5><br>\n\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><\/div><br><br><br><br><br><br><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>\u201cIsland\u201d \u2014 the Requiem<br><\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h5><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">In 1973\/4, a thoughtful man named Dave used to come to 5 St Radigund Street, Canterbury, where I was then living as a student. He was a friend of another resident, the singer Barbara Gaskin, and we sometimes referred to him as \u201cZiggy\u201d in honour of the stardust trailing behind him. Dave, was Dave Sinclair, former keyboardist with Matching Mole and Caravan, whose album&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/h5><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"422\" height=\"480\" width_o=\"422\" height_o=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c09475aefee7fbcb840c84b60452b162abb7949869c2a455f57673a456135231\/sinclair-dave-eng.jpg\" data-mid=\"91996369\" border=\"0\" \/><br><\/div><br>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kP4oxcQJzyc\">\u201cIn the Land of Grey and Pink\u201d<\/a> (1971) had taken its title from sunsets over the Isle of Sheppey. Band members had watched these fractal explosions of colour from the marshland village of Graveney, where they\u2019d foun
46d a hall in which to rehearse.&nbsp;<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"938\" height=\"469\" width_o=\"938\" height_o=\"469\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3903cfaf1cff7899e0ad67d83bc842b91c63e65e66a2f80603d47f3663a5b7d9\/Grey-Pink0001b-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"91986127\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Caravan, In the Land of Grey and Pink, 1971\" data-caption=\"Caravan, In the Land of Grey and Pink, 1971\"\/><\/div><h2><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h5>Dave spent many years, including those in which the memory of \u201cprog rock\u201d was blasted into the past by the later punk sensibility, running a piano restoration business in Herne Bay. He moved to Japan in 2005 where he now lives on Yuge island, Kamijima.&nbsp; Perhaps some fleeting memory of that view over Sheppey informs his more recent song &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5r1ObdAsa7w&amp;list=RD5r1ObdAsa7w&amp;index=22\">\u201cIsland\u201d (2011)<\/a>, a simple elegy to the hopes of a lost era, here sung by Barbara Gaskin.&nbsp; Johnson, of course, knew nothing of this. Yet he was curious and, when living in America in the Sixties, he once asked the young Richard Hamburger to copy him a cassette of his favourite music.<br>\n\n\n\n <\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/h2><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>Island Birds<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480059413?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h5>Brent geese at Shellbeach<\/h5><\/div><br>\n<h5>A female flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum) tried its luck on the&nbsp; Sheppey marshes in the summer of 1873. The erratic visitor was shot by a labourer named Heathfield, who tracked it down to Sharfleet Creek on the Swale. Sheppey\u2019s firebird was claimed as a first for the country. As such, it was eviscerated and stuffed by a Mr. George Young of Sittingbourne on the mainland, and sold to a man named Dene from further inland at Tonbridge. The new owner was to receive a disappointing lesson from the superintendent of London Zoo, who revealed that the unfortunate creature was actually an escapee from his collection at Regent\u2019s Park.<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A23%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1514\" height=\"2590\" width_o=\"1514\" height_o=\"2590\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c68f0145e2e973398df754af219cdcdb88baec69d163ea46c07ffad99dc2924b\/p.-118.jpg\" data-mid=\"88794051\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" alt=\"European Flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum)\" data-caption=\"European Flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum)\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><img width=\"1518\" height=\"848\" width_o=\"1518\" height_o=\"848\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/09ee0de545650809b476c0ddb3b02d4c9c04a44b312621fcc94a4f3e757ee734\/Screenshot-2020-12-12-at-12.03.26.png\" data-mid=\"91898846\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cHe\nwalked to the door and threw it open. The sea, the sea. Grey and brown. It\nwould rain soon. It was bleak out, bleaker, if possible, than it had ever\nseemed before. What a view. Luke grimaced. What a bloody landscape!\u201d<br>\u2014 Nicola Barker, <i>Wide\nOpen<\/i> (1998) <\/h5><br><br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>Sheppey: \u201cRural slum\u201d <br>and\/or \u201cMoral Utopia\u201d?<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<br>\n<h5>Johnson\u2019s first German visitors were by no means impressed by the remote, industrial, working class island on which he had chosen to live. &nbsp;<br><br>\u201cAs [Siegfried] Kunert recorded in his <i>An English Daybook<\/i> the seats inside British Rail\u2019s shabby conveyance were a poor advertisement for the attractions of \u201cSheerness-on-Sea.\u201d Their headrests were \u2018enormously patinated\u2019&nbsp; \u2014 so much so that one was stuck with white tufts of hair as if an old man had struggled to \u2018tear himself from his seat on arrival.\u2019\u201d<i>
46(Sea View,<\/i> p. 195)<br><br>\u201cEvery time I arrived and left, my feeling was the same: how can one live here, and how can one write here, in this run-down town, with little or no possibility of preserving what makes the outer life worth living?\u201d<br>\n<\/h5><h5>\u2014 Siegfried Unseld, Johnson\u2019s editor and publisher at Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 195)<\/h5><br>\n<h5><div style=\"text-align: right\"><div style=\"text-align: left\">Helga Michie, the twin sister of the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger who had arrived in London on a Kindertransport in 1939, understood the situation differently:&nbsp;<\/div><\/div><br>\u201cHe likes it there. It reminds him of home... It\u2019s the landscape \u2014 sea, sand, marsh.\u201d<br><\/h5><div style=\"text-align: right\"><div style=\"text-align: left\"><h5>(<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 197)<\/h5><\/div><\/div><h5><br>For centuries, Sheerness had survived and sometimes prospered as a military town. It was created to meet the requirements both of the Admiralty dockyard, first laid out by Samuel Pepys and others&nbsp; in 1665, and of the associated army garrison installed next to it on the marshy point (the \u201cNess\u201d) overlooking the mouth of the Medway and the&nbsp; submerged sandbank that would become the naval anchorage known as the Nore. The people of the town that grew up around the dockyard had long feared their reliance on the Admiralty, and steps were also taken to establish the place as \u201cSheerness-on-Sea\u201d,&nbsp; a resort for visiting Londoners. As such, it would always struggle to match rivals like Margate, where the golden sands bore no disillusioning resemblance to shingle and&nbsp; excursionists disembarking from the steamer that had brought them from London&nbsp; didn\u2019t have to make their way through the disorderly military slum named Blue Town (\u201dWhitechapel-on-Sea\u201d) in order to get from the pier to the beach.<br><br>Johnson knew about the poverty and deprivation on Sheppey, but he didn\u2019t at all mind the absence of the shinier trappings of western life - the rampant consumerism, the displays of opulence, the bourgeois habits of thought that had never made their way over the Kingsferry Bridge from the so-called \u201cGarden of England\u201d. A longastanding scourge of the hypocrisy of the liberal middle classes, he aligned himself with the island\u2019s unemployed and came to appreciate the&nbsp; not always law-abiding solidarity of the people as they got by despite the unhelpful attentions (or neglect) of the state.&nbsp; He told one East German friend that he had discovered a \u201cmoral utopia\u201d in this English backwater, where many of his friends saw only misery, abandonment and bleak deprivation.<\/h5>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x11\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A24%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1312\" height=\"1048\" width_o=\"1312\" height_o=\"1048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a4f353a1f62f8ff3125e4a3a2fbdf1527d2f54964db63f1e2b530b9d3cfb9a9b\/dig18106-z2rimuxdgwtviuedirbn9n30.jpg\" data-mid=\"87938724\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Abraham Ortelius, map of Thomas More&rsquo;s Utopia, c. 1595\" data-caption=\"Abraham Ortelius, map of Thomas More\u2019s Utopia, c. 1595\"\/>\n<\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x11\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A25%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"600\" height=\"479\" width_o=\"600\" height_o=\"479\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/06be0fdd1860e543e773faf33270a218349b4c63f2ee9a65dc2c0cdf770c3812\/sheppey_resize.jpg\" data-mid=\"91287588\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Isle of Sheppey, from Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1797\" data-caption=\"The Isle of Sheppey, from Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1797\"\/>\n<\/div><br><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br>\n<br>\n<h6>The Past<\/h6><\/div>\n<br><div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A26%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2171\" height=\"1675\" width_o=\"2171\" height_o=\"1675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cee0f6a10614b3cf8b08e69c8dc8ce66579c0c04ba98361f64e2b489f43f64e2\/IMG_0612-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"89290321\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;Benevolence&rdquo; carnival at the Royal Hotel, Sheerness. photo: Robert Hider, circa 1890\" data-caption=\"\u201cBenevolence\u201d carnival at the Royal Hotel, Sheerness. photo: Robert Hider, circa 1890\"\/>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align: right;\"><br>\n<img width=\"2864\" height=\"2230\" width_o=\"2864\" height_o=\"2230\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9e0a222a85762ac81ea0639ab136505110b3437fe4c5e715510ae9c181b19ade\/Fig-66.jpg\" data-mid=\"89769731\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Franz Heinrich L&ouml;sel, &ldquo;10 X 8 Photograph group of portion of Crew of H.M.S. &ldquo;Victoria&rdquo; taken on forecastle of said ship&rdquo; at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian &amp;nbsp;
46Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible man, who wouldn&rsquo;t even permiot lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Merditerranean, with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893\" data-caption=\"Franz Heinrich L\u00f6sel, \u201c10 X 8 Photograph group of portion of Crew of H.M.S. \u201cVictoria\u201d taken on forecastle of said ship\u201d at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian &amp;nbsp;Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible man, who wouldn\u2019t even permiot lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Merditerranean, with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893\"\/><br>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h7>Franz Heinrich L\u00f6sel, \u201c10 X 8 Photograph group of\nportion of Crew of H.M.S. \u201cVictoria\u201d taken on forecastle of said ship\u201d at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible commander, who wouldn\u2019t even permit lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893.<\/h7>\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"5005\" height=\"3963\" width_o=\"5005\" height_o=\"3963\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5502dd53bee4cfb594130760ac9f8d92d4a5ea1890fa57969fbcb7bd53fac6a9\/Fig-25-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"89296722\" border=\"0\" \/><div style=\"text-align: right;\"><div style=\"text-align: left\"><h7>Shellbeach, August 1933.&nbsp; This photograph was taken after the 17 year old Jean Chesterton was killed by misdirected machine-gun fire from an RAF training plane, while rowing out with her sister (theirs is the boat nearest the sea) to recover a beach ball from the wind.<\/h7><br><\/div>\n<br>\n<\/div><h1><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A27%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1008\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1008\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bfd6a6e6246a569f4477c98c1ddd5a32b297549bc81e1a1780bb7a1e1526d3dd\/Fig-28.jpg\" data-mid=\"89296875\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Former Fireman Neville Wood fries an egg with the help of his assistant Francis Batsoni, Variety at Leysdown Holiday Camp, 1957\" data-caption=\"Former Fireman Neville Wood fries an egg with the help of his assistant Francis Batsoni, Variety at Leysdown Holiday Camp, 1957\"\/>\n<\/div><\/h1><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\t\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h6>Minster Abbey and its afterlife<br><br>\n<img width=\"2785\" height=\"1591\" width_o=\"2785\" height_o=\"1591\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ca5358f0a8a657213816f4e70c4cee835f4f19c66862bbc5c60bf63f8e2d030\/IMG_3776.jpeg\" data-mid=\"107941875\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h7><\/h7><div style=\"text-align: left\"><h7><h5>Stephen Fry once suggested that the people who lived in the past were really just \u201cus with different clothes on\u201d.&nbsp; Looking at this ancient Green Man in the Church of Mary and&nbsp; St Sexburga, Minster, we may doubt it ...&nbsp;<\/h5><\/h7><br><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"1.75\" grid-gutter=\"3.5\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"1.75\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"1.75\"><h5>Sacked by Vikings and dissolved by Henry VIII but the church and gatehouse of St. Sexburga\u2019s abbey are&nbsp; still standing on the island\u2019s highest ground at&nbsp; Minster-on-Sea:<br><\/h5>\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ccc977ed6a9aff52eb1fd8820694add281c289d2bca0ca90f85266b4e62
460d91f\/281C13E6-C7E2-4151-96B7-F39B451E6CAA_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89235809\" border=\"0\" \/><br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"1.75\"><br><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e56018be582db839cdbeca82943aad83936d269c962ee4916afd881083db2688\/80B1C021-AA42-4291-A0EA-77D87098C33B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89287864\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"1.75\" class=\"\"><br><br>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br><br><img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ecbe65407f37b35a6f9507e2e0ba237b6d79b10db32d85a4506ae96c3be2caa0\/DSCN0832.JPG\" data-mid=\"107950997\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Minster Abbey from read bedroom of Uwe Johnson's house at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Minster Abbey from read bedroom of Uwe Johnson's house at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness\"\/><br><h7><h5> Minster Abbey, from top rear bedroom of Uwe Johnson\u2019s House at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness... <\/h5><\/h7><br><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<img width=\"3199\" height=\"2062\" width_o=\"3199\" height_o=\"2062\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a8b5afebb9364528239ac8439a222d310126b564455ab02e3796394a821d0770\/Scan-17.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92615351\" border=\"0\" \/><br><h7><h5> \u201cI shall be glad when I get a job sooner or later\u201d. Postcard&nbsp; with \u201cBirdseye View of Minster\u201d, postmarked&nbsp; 3 June 1909.<\/h5><\/h7>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h6>Women\u2019s Suffrage: a modern&nbsp; cause lands at Minster,&nbsp; September 1909<br><br>\n<img width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" width_o=\"4032\" height_o=\"3024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9c0fda7eba620f4155843b37ab941315f5a691639d4828ce9c9fe220b65c1f3a\/IMG_3779.jpeg\" data-mid=\"107948379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h7><h5>&nbsp;\u201cHere on a grassy triangle outside the churchyard, a group of about fifty villagers and visitors assembled on Wednesday 11th, to hear the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell [the American reformer, Alyse Pearsall Smith] speak on Women\u2019s Suffrage . . . It was, as far as I know, the first Women\u2019s Suffrage meeting ever held in Sheppey island, and no more appropriate spot could have been chosen for the occasion.&nbsp; Among the famous Saxon women of Kent, beginning with the Christian Queen Bertha, two of the most distirnguished belonged to Sheppey. Sexburga, queen and saint, to whom Minster Abbey Church is dedicated, was daughter to Annas, king of the East Anglians, wife to Ercombert, King of Kent, and mother to two succeeding Kings of Kent. She founded and ruled over a monastery for Benedictine nuns on the hill at Minster. In later life she be
46came Abbess of Ely, and was succeeded in Minster by her daughter Princess Ermenilda, who in her turn became Abbes of Ely\u201d Kate Ralegh in&nbsp;<i>Women\u2019s Franchise,<\/i> 2 September 1909 (<i>Sea View,<\/i> pp. 174-80).<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5105cdec22c15387720054f358bf7a22cbbf7b14aa1078c00a4a33fa091f164e\/8965537A-EF55-4481-A61E-3BB7024364D4_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"107949433\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h5><\/h7><h7><\/h7><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<h7><h5><\/h5><\/h7><br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h6>Long Lost Family: a Successful Week on the Isle of Sheppey, June 1938<\/h6><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: left\"><h7><h5><i>\u201cA\nWholesale Imposter.\u2014<\/i>In\nthe beginning of last week, a man called upon Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, at the\npreventive station, Queenborough, representing himself as a relation; and was,\nin consequence, liberally entertained by them. On Wednesday, he discovered\nanother relation among the military in Sheerness garrison; and a subscription\nwas made for him among the soldiers, amounting to 7s. 6d.&nbsp; Afterwards, he found a cousin, a poor man, in\nBlue Town, with whom he resided a day. On the same night, about ten o\u2019clock, he\nfound another cousin, a poor man (Mr. Hayse), who was going to bed when he\narrived; but upon the arrival of a cousin, they cooked a supper, and\nentertained him to the best of their ability; and afterwards gave up to him\ntheir own bed. On Saturday, he found a cousin Adams, with whom he partook a\ngreedy meal of nearly two pounds of meat, and a pot of porter, &amp;c. Here he\ncarried his deceptions as far as to kiss Mrs. Adams, who shed copious tears\nupon the occasion of the discovery of a relative. The same day, he found cousin\nCurry, with whom he partook of ham &amp;c., for tea, and obtained 2s 3d from\nMrs C., to pay the pier dues for his luggage; having nothing, as he said, but\ndoubloons by him, which he could not get changed. The same night, he gave a\nsecond visit to Queenborough, and found out cousin Morris; but obtained nothing\nfrom him. He appeared, wherever he went, to be quite at home, by looking into\ncupboards, and dealing out apples &amp;c. from them to the children. The\nimposter resided in Sheppey altogether a week; after which, he appears to have\nfound out the mother of a New South Wales convict, near Sittingbourne, from\nwhom he pretended to have brought a letter. He next introduced himself to the\nclerk of a brewery at Chatham, from whom he obtained 7 s. This is the last\nplace we heard of him. He is about 5ft. 6in. in height\u201460 years of age. He had\non a brown coat, grey trowsers and long waistcoat\u2014the whole considerably worse\nfor wear.\u201d<\/h5><\/h7><\/div><h5>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  \u2014<i>Kentish Mercury,<\/i> 9 June 1838.<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/h5><h5><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br>\n\n\n\t\n <br>\n\n\t\n\t<h7>&nbsp;<\/h7><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h6>A Bar Goes Under<br>\nfrom West Berlin to East End Lane\n <br>\n(an indication of method\nand a story<br>\n that didn\u2019t make it into Chapter 13)<\/h6><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: left\"><h7>Written in 1965, Johnson\u2019s story \u201cA Bar Goes Under\u201d ( \u201cEine Kneipe geht verloren\u201d republished in&nbsp; <i>Berliner Sachen, <\/i>1975) tracks the fate of a bar in West Berlin that was put at the service of student escape helpers smuggling people through the frontier from the East during the early years of the Berlin Wall. Johnson\u2019s bar finally goes out of business as various interests react to the idealistic young barkeeper\u2019s participation in this project: having embarked on what she thought would be a temporary job, she ends up being sued by her own relatives for destroying the family enterprise.&nbsp;<\/h7><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>&nbsp;<br>\n<\/div>\n\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"3416\" height=\"2352\" width_o=\"3416\" height_o=\"2352\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5124dc8eeb24bef9e24bb342ad982eb7bacba20a5a40d92625c220ed1d2da4b2\/IMG_3565.jpeg\" data-mid=\"93376718\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<h7>Bars have found different ways of \u201cgoing under\u201d on the Kentish island where Johnson made his English home. I got this watercolour from an eBay seller in Montana who had herself found it pasted into a volume of albumen photographs assembled somewhere in the British Isles during the 1880s. &nbsp;It shows The Royal Oak Inn, a remote hostelry that once stood above the soft and fossil-spewing London clay cliffs overlooking the North Sea from the island\u2019s \u201cEast End\u201d. Intrigued to find a picture of this secluded inn, which here seems to anticipate the atmosphere of James Meade Falkner\u2019s yet to be published smuggling novel <i>Moonfleet<\/i>, I started to look into its story. &nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br>In mid-Victorian times, the Royal Oak was one of the more remote destinations available to visitors on the Isle of Sheppey. Search for it via the British Newspaper Archive, and it makes its earliest appearance on 7th June 1859, when it was offered for sale in the <i>South Eastern Gazette.<\/i>&nbsp; &nbsp;Described as \u201ca desirable inn\u201d situated in \u201cthe most beautiful part of the Isle of Sheppey\u201d, it was equipped with \u201cabout Three Acres of Land, consisting principally of Plantation of Fruit, Pleasure, and Garden Ground\u201d. &nbsp;Perched at the end of the world, the Royal Oak was, without question, a place of some romance. &nbsp;Known as the haunt of smugglers as well as of the more energetic and\/or secretive summer excursionists, it also played a significant role in the island\u2019s largely forgotten political history. <br>\n<br>\nOn Saturday 7 June 1873, the <i>Sheerness Times and General Advertiser, <\/i>informed its readers that&nbsp; 200 of the island\u2019s agricultural labourers had made their way to the Royal Oak from all parts of the island to attend a meeting the previous Saturday evening. The assembly, which was part of that decade\u2019s nation-wide \u201cRevolt of the Fields\u201d, had been called so that Mr. Harry Howard of the Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union could propose the creation of a Sheppey branch of this fast-growing friendly society. &nbsp;The union had been founded in Maidstone only a year previously and was under the leadership of Alfred Simmons, a journalist editor of the <i>Kent Messenger,<\/i> who once attributed his sympathy with the county\u2019s agricultural labourers to his own experience of growing up in poverty as one of five children of a mother widowed in her early thirties. <br>\n<br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A28%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2043\" height=\"3256\" width_o=\"2043\" height_o=\"3256\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/be6779697af9d22b69b51a3fc264f813589a4bd5a6c2be7009ac888bf2a31f56\/Scan-32-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93377224\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;I have had a jolly good time and am sorry it is finished&quot;. Postcard of avenue leading to the Royal Oak by Noah's Ark, Sheerness, sent 25 August 1908\" data-caption=\"&quot;I have had a jolly good time and am sorry it is finished&quot;. Postcard of avenue leading to the Royal Oak by Noah's Ark, Sheerness, sent 25 August 1908\"\/>\n<\/div><\/h7><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<h7>Such was the turn-out at the Royal Oak that the Sheppey rally had to be held \u201cin the avenue adjacent to the little picturesque public-house\u201d. Having climbed onto a table, Howard apologised for the fact that he would also have to chair the meeting himself. &nbsp;He asked the assembled labourers to listen patiently to speakers, whether they were for or against the proposition. \u201cThe subject\u201d, which was of national importance and definitely \u201cnot confined to a hole-and-corner village,\u201d should be considered \u201cbeyond hooting down.\u201d&nbsp; <br><br>Howard may still have been wearing the \u201cagricultural\u201d boots and leggings for which he had been mocked in the <i>Maidstone Journal\u2019s<\/i> sneering report of the union\u2019s recent fundraising meeting in Gravesend. &nbsp;Yet he knew how to present a reasoned case even while ridiculing the objections farming interests had tried to plant in their workers\u2019 minds. It was, Howard stated, the general saying in a village that when men joined the union they did so in order to strike. \u201cThere was not a greater fallacy than this,\u201d because a union \u201cwas merely a combination of men to benefit themselves, so that there could not be very much wrong with it.\u201d Unions used the strike only as last resort, and this one hoped to find other ways of saving its members from the answer that customarily awaited labourers who dared express any grievances. &nbsp;<br><br>\u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, go!\u201d &nbsp;That was the reply the demanding, or just pleading, labourer could expect from his employer. &nbsp;And those who were forced to \u201cgo\u201d had no chance of getting employment from another farmer in the parish. &nbsp;So the aggrieved worker had to leave the area, knowing there would be plenty of other men to take up the work at starvation wages. &nbsp;Once the new organisation became \u201cgeneral\u201d, Howard promised, it would have the leverage to put an end to this misery. &nbsp;The Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union was, so Howard encouraged the more timorous onlookers to understand, one of the last unions to form: even the Church of England\u2019s curates had recently created such an association to save themselves from being \u201cground down to the lowest by the big wigs of that Church\u201d. <br><br>After Howard\u2019s rousing speech, the meeting adjourned to the pub, where a Sheppey branch of the Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union was duly formed with a membership of 70 men. Two years later, its members were coming to terms with the island farmers\u2019 reaction to their unwelcome exercise in collective self-defence. &nbsp;
46In April 1875 one who knew better than to reveal his identity except as \u201ca farm labourer\u201d, wrote to the <i>Sheerness Times<\/i> to let readers know \u201chow those who are uniting to attain a reasonable day\u2019s pay are treated by the \u201cAmalgamated Club\u201d of the farmers of this island. <br>\n<br>\n&nbsp;On Sheppey as elsewhere in the county, the labourers&nbsp; had been \u201clocked out\u201d because they were demanding a working day of 10 hours. A young man who had been elected branch secretary of the Kent Agricultural Labourer\u2019s Union, was immediately discharged from a farm near \u201cCourt Tree\u201d and also dismissed by the church wardens from his long-established additional employment as \u201corgan blower\u201d at the church in the agricultural village of Eastchurch. &nbsp; Two years earlier, the &nbsp;union\u2019s founder and Honorary Secretary Alfred &nbsp;Simmons had told a meeting in Lamberhurst that the \u201cunmanly, unkind, unchristianlike\u201d behaviour of the farmers was \u201cunworthy of Englishmen.\u201d (<i>Kentish Gazette<\/i>, 17 June 1873, p. 3) &nbsp; This unnamed Sheppey labourer now repeated that charge, urging \u201cthose who deprecate the Unenglish proceedings of the farmers of Sheppey,\u201d to contribute their \u201cmite\u201d towards the welfare of those injured by the \u201clock out\u201d. He also noted that the branch lodge continued to hold its meetings at the Royal Oak in East End Lane.&nbsp; <br><br>As the red bucket in the unknown watercolourist\u2019s picture may suggest, The Royal Oak was among the remote buildings on Sheppey\u2019s east coast that proved remarkably prone to fire. It was, however,&nbsp; a different threat that eventually put an end to the Royal Oak. &nbsp;On this coast, the idea of \u201cgoing under\u201d is all too literal \u2013 fields, houses, churches, coastguard stations, pillboxes have been doing it for centuries. &nbsp;The cliffs are of soft London clay, and it has been estimated that&nbsp; miles of land may have dissolved into the rising sea since Roman times. &nbsp; In \u201cvolcano land\u201d, as this unstable coast was dubbed by the <i>Illustrated London News <\/i>after a fall in January 1909,&nbsp; the end comes not as a crashing fall of rocks, but as a slumping movement of mud and clay in which undermined areas \u201cglide\u201d down, often strangely intact, towards the water. &nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nA typical Sheppey landslip had occurred in 1809, when a great clod of land measuring 500ft by 150 ft \u201cslid gradually down to the valley called Busbyhole\u201d. &nbsp;It took with it parts of a dwellinghouse, a cow-house and several outbuildings\u2019 but the descent was so gradual and gentle, that the corn planted on the land could still be \u201charvested in a good condition the following autumn\u201d. &nbsp;<br><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A29%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22slide%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1000\" height=\"762\" width_o=\"1000\" height_o=\"762\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/24d0d56bdb96dd7185d6fc27d7accfe46a4fb64e3a41962776f0d341bd7e39ae\/s-l1600-3.jpg\" data-mid=\"93544170\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Illustrated London News, 1870\" data-caption=\"Illustrated London News, 1870\"\/>\n<\/div><br>Another of these falls occurred in June 1870. &nbsp;As the <i>Sheerness Times<\/i> reported on the 25th, this one had been seen by two officers who, having just walked over the fallen acre, announced the descent to have been \u201ca grand sight\u201d. &nbsp;The&nbsp; pleasure gardens sold as part of the Royal Oak Inn had recently been diminished too \u2013 \u201clarge slips of land have also taken place at the Royal Oak, East-End-Lane, during the past few years, reducing the lawn, which was of considerable size, to the insignificant area it now occupies.\u201d <br>\n<br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A30%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3229\" height=\"1930\" width_o=\"3229\" height_o=\"1930\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e91b788c038ec37b9877de80718a445069cea196ebeedbdfb7f3680f108a5db0\/Scan-29-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93447159\" border=\"0\" alt=\"View from &quot;Royal Oak Point&quot;, painted for &quot;The Development Company&quot;, set up to sell plotland sites for shacks and bungalows above the unstable cliffs at Minster by the developer F. R. Ramuz and Son. Circa 1910\" data-caption=\"View from &quot;Royal Oak Point&quot;, painted for &quot;The Development Company&quot;, set up to sell plotland sites for shacks and bungalows above the unstable cliffs at Minster by the developer F. R. Ramuz and Son. Circa 1910\"\/>\n<\/div><br>\nAlthough the surrounding land and garden kept collapsing around it, the Royal Oak survived until the 1950s, when it was finally cleared before it joined its ancient or
46chard and bowling green in \u201cgoing under\u201d. As for the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union, by the 1880s, the much maligned Albert Simmons had connected its cause with franchise reform, standing as a parliamentary candidate for William Gladstone\u2019s Liberal Party and calling the labourers of Kent to join the Liberals against the \u201cscornful curl of the lip\u201d with which Tories had always met their demands&nbsp; for improvement (<i>Thanet Advertiser<\/i> 27 June 1885, p.4 ).<br>\n<br>\nSimmons may be less remembered than Joseph Arch of Warwickshire, but the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union was one of the most successful of the associations that formed during the Revolt of the Fields. This may be attributed to its use of festivals and journalism as well as its strike and sickness funds. &nbsp;Yet it was also distinguished by its commitment to assisted emigration, a cause that earlier defenders of the English rural community such as William Cobbett had opposed as a wholly unnecessary displacement spuriously justified by appeals to Malthus\u2019s theory of the surplus population. For Simmons, on the contrary, emigration was another weapon in the battle against the Tory farmers.<br><br>Speaking to a crowd of about 1000 in Canterbury in July 1872, Simmons disputed the frequently trotted out allegation that the union had been got up by \u201cpaid agitators\u201d determined to bring on a strike. &nbsp;Its policy, he explained, &nbsp;was actually moderate and gradual. &nbsp;The&nbsp; first step was to request an increase in wages, and then to seek independent arbitration if this was refused. &nbsp;The third measure, which was placed before the fourth and final option of calling a strike, was to enable \u201csuch men as desired\u201d to migrate or emigrate \u201cfrom Kent to better places\u201d (<i>Maryport Observer,<\/i> 20 March 1874, p,. 2.) Various destinations were available, but the union appears to have favoured sending its emigrating families \u201cdown under\u201d to South Australia and &nbsp;New Zealand. &nbsp; It helped 234 families embarked for South Australia near the end of 1873. 400 had gone by the end of the year, when a concerned farmer from Waltham ventured the hope that a good half of them would soon enough be begging to exchange \u201cthe aguish forest of New Zealand, the blinding sands of Australia, or the wild prairies of North America for the hop gardens of Kent.\u201d &nbsp;(<i>Kentish Gazette<\/i>&nbsp; 16 December 1873). &nbsp;In 1879, Simmons countered another farmers\u2019 lock-out by filling &nbsp;a steamship made available to him by the Agent-General of New Zealand, and himself joining the emigrating labourers on their voyage. Since many of the departing labourers had worked in Kent\u2019s hop fields, he took a selection of hop plants so that they might renew their activities once landed. &nbsp;<br><br>As Simmons intended, this encouragement of emigration helped increase pressure on farmers, especially at busy times of year when their harvest depended on the easy availability of workers. &nbsp;It\u2019s effectiveness may be measured by various furious reports in the county press. &nbsp;It would be said that Simmons and the other \u201cmountebanks\u201d at the head of the union were making a killing from the commission they secured for everyone they signed up for free passage to the far side of the Empire. &nbsp;The county\u2019s Tory papers also opened their pages to stories about the bitter disappointment of emigrants who disembarked in places that were anything but the \u201cland of milk and honey\u201d they had been promised. &nbsp;Regrets were keenly anticipated among those Simmons had sent to New Zealand and South Australia, but the commentators had to make do with those of the agricultural labourers who had been \u201cinduced by philanthropists\u201d to embark for Brazil in May 1872, and soon found themselves doing the work of slaves: \u201cWe live together like pigs\u2026 We would not have come here for all the world had we known\u201d (<i>Kentish Gazette,<\/i> 24 December 1874). &nbsp; Nobody could justifiably stick the blame for that particular passage on Simmons, but the accusation was generalised nonetheless.<br><br>A rotation like this had long been underway in the agricultural economy of Sheppey, with farm labourers emigrating to America, often helped by children who had gone before them, and their departure being noted in newspapers in Ireland (the <i>Sligo Champion<\/i> published such a notice on 3 November 1851), whence \u201citinerant\u201d labourers would make their way to the island to take up available work at harvest time. It was in a clash between Irish and English labourers at Eastchurch during the harvest of 1837 that the insulting word \u201cpikey\u201d is said to have entered the English language (<i>Sea View, <\/i>pp.107-8).<br><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A31%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3033\" height=\"1833\" width_o=\"3033\" height_o=\"1833\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7af08ab1c4cc2342cc556e43287283863a8f6c0ed365d4d528eaa965afab8ae5\/Scan-21.jpeg\" data-mid=\"93474764\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;My bungalow is five minutes walk from this beautiful place&quot;. Postcard, sent 18 July 1931.\" data-caption=\"&quot;My bungalow is five minutes walk from this beautiful place&quot;. Postcard, sent 18 July 1931.\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<br>\nOf the agricultural labourers who didn\u2019t ship out for the \u201cNew World\u201d, we might now think more generously about Benjamin Bunk, an elderly and besmocked labourer who turned up at one of the island\u2019s first Suffragist meetings in August 1909. &nbsp;One of the holidaying speakers, the American Alys Pearsall Smith (aka Mrs. Bertrand Russell), records that Mr. Bunk proved an awkward presence before going off to get himself another glass of beer. Overall, though, she found herself facing a serious and attentive audience at that meeting in Eastchurch, singling out a roughly clad young labourer, who stood rapt and immovable throughout the astonishing event, and dropped several coins into the collection pail at the close&nbsp; (<i>Sea View,<\/i> pp. 176-7). &nbsp;<\/h7><br><br><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<br>\n<br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<h6>A politics that once counted: two blasts from the rural class struggle in late Victorian Kent<\/h6><br><\/div><h7>1. \u201cGreat Franchise Demonstration at Canterbury,\u201d <i>Thanet Advertiser,<\/i> 27 June 1885, p. 4.<\/h7><br>\n<br><h7>Mr. Alfred Simmons (Liberal candidate for the St Augustine\u2019s Division) was very warmly received. &nbsp;He said: \u2013 I rise at the &nbsp;request of the labourers of Kent and Sussex, and on their behalf to move the following motion:<br>\n<br>\n\u201cThis meeting of Kent and Sussex labourers and representatives of Liberal Associations of Kent and East Sussex, remembering the promise that the present Parliament should not be dissolved until the household suffrage had been granted to the counties, tenders its grateful thanks to Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party for the consistency with which they have fulfilled that promise to the people.\u201d<br>\n<br>\nFrom the time of my boyhood I have been, as I hope and believe, a consistent follower of the man whom I believe to have been the best friend that the working classes of the country ever had (a voice: Gladstone), and I assure you it sends a thrill of grateful pleasure through me to be selected to move this resolution of thanks to our grand old leader, Mr. Gladstone ((Loud cheers.) The speaker then recounted the long and great struggle the labourers had had to obtain their rights, and pointed out to his hearers who it was that had always opposed them. &nbsp;His experience had been that when they asked a Conservative member of Parliament to supp
46ort that measure they had been met with the scornful curl of the lip.&nbsp; \u201cWe have been mocked and laughed at, and I tell you, and I tell you truthfully, that you do not owe the smallest amount of thanks to the Tory party for your votes. (Cheers.) I have been asked by some labourers to describe if I could what was the difference between a Conservative and a Liberal, and to do so I will tell you this. &nbsp;The Conservatives always have obstructed and attempted to cripple the reforms demanded by the people. The Liberals have always initiated and advocated and agitated these reforms in the teeth of the Tory party, and they have been victorious (Cheers.) This is the difference between the Liberal and Tory. The Tory obstructs you and keeps you down. &nbsp;The Liberal helps you to get up, rise; and to-day I, as one whom I believe you will trust, tell you this that so far as I am concerned no uncertain sound shall proceed from me on this question (Cheers.) . . . &nbsp;I venture solemnly, seriously to warn you against being duped, hoodwinked by these atrocious statements of our opponents, and I would like you to ask them, if the Tory party have not opposed you, who has? (Cheers.) How is it that the franchise was not introduced when you first asked for it 13 years ago? &nbsp;Where has the opposition come from? Why as a matter of fact and certainty it has come from the usual quarter from which opposition to the people always has and always will come, from the Tory party. (Hear, hear). &nbsp;Although perhaps there may be individual men stupid enough to allow themselves to be hoodwinked (hear, hear), let me beseech of the mass of you to stand, firmly and honourable by the side of those of us who have led you to victory\u2026\u201d<br>\n<br>\n<\/h7><br>\n <h7>2. &nbsp;\u201cA Word to Labourers,\u201d <i>Kent &amp; Sussex Courier,<\/i> 13 January 1893, p. 6 <br>\n<br>\n\u201cSo far as Kent is concerned we believe there is now a real \u201creunion of hearts\u201d between the three main elements into which the agricultural community is divided. A few years since it was not so. Then the labourers regarded their masters and their landlords, to say nothing about the parson, as their natural enemies. That feeling was the outcome of the pernicious teachings of Mr. Alfred Simmons and others connected with the Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union. But we all know how that union has dwindled into a state of impotency, after doing an infinitude of mischief in breaking up those kindly relations which had for many years existed between the Kentish farmers and their men. We have good warrant for saying that no one now regrets that more than the labourers themselves; &nbsp;and that in future they will rather treat their natural leaders \u2014 the landlords and the tenant farmers \u2014 than put any reliance in such mountebanks as Simmons, Steadman, and others, who only have their own selfish ends to served.&nbsp; Who that remembers that first meeting in the Bell Rink, at Maidstone, some three-and-twenty years ago, when Simmons, Roots, and Co., with the aid of the <i>Maidstone Telegraph,<\/i> floated the Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union, can look back upon it with anything but disgust and execration? &nbsp;How many of our sturdy Kentish labourers \u2014 good, honest men and true \u2014 that were then and afterwards led into joining the union ever suspected that it had its origin in an emigration scheme, whereby its promoters were to put a handsome sum into their pockets for every man, woman and child they could send out of the country? &nbsp; That scheme was the death-knell of hundreds . . . Simmons was king, with a following of twenty thousand dupes, not one of whom derived any lasting benefit from their slavish adherence to their newfound saviour. Their hard earned money was squandered in gew-gaws, scarves, ribbons, stars, flags, and banners; Simmons and his satellites drew high salaries, and in the end they prosecuted him for misappropriating their funds.\u201d<\/h7><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>A house for Somerset Maugham\u2019s <br>\nCockney barber, \u201cSheppey\u201d<br><\/h6><\/div><br><h5>\u201cI wish now I\u2019d gone down to the Isle of Sheppey when the doctor advised it. You wouldn\u2019t \u2019ave thought of looking for me there.\u201d<\/h5><h5>\u2014 \u201cSheppey\u201d, who was played by John Gielgud in the first prodution, speaking to Death in Somerset Maugham\u2019s last play, <i>Sheppey: a Play in Three Acts,&nbsp;<\/i>1933<\/h5><br><h5><b>\u201c<\/b>I know the very \u2019ouse I\u2019m going to buy when my ship comes home. Two acres of land. View of the sea. Just the place for me and my old woman.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A32%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3035\" height=\"1774\" width_o=\"3035\" height_o=\"1774\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ad19046695c8f60572143e0ee1d15bbbef237b9c1bf7c85620d05346a3125a68\/Fig-29.png\" data-mid=\"89533441\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Plotland dwelling, near Sheerness, c. 1935\" data-caption=\"Plotland dwelling, near Sheerness, c. 1935\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d308c94f6a3fedbe9f947a61644ac9d0e5865dd81caee6f2e1b3437ba67de6ac\/014A8573-9789-4F15-A64F-D1A282B84CEF_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492297\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Expanded bungalow, Warden\" data-caption=\"Expanded bungalow, Warden\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cb9924f81a030e5160a3ea7d4024f26b4e4b3451d0c98d3e8b6ea8678d625185\/445D1C01-0E2D-4E7E-A640-0FC885510E79_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494343\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Che
46yney Rock House, formerly HQ of Mr. Alston's oyster empire\" data-caption=\"Cheyney Rock House, formerly HQ of Mr. Alston's oyster empire\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d6c84932220659aa3b1d0cd3045883d3cba1fdd2d2eb77d638c5817f1c02a97f\/924E2153-BDA1-4F68-AECE-BC90F53A3636_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492348\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;Bungalette&quot;, Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"&quot;Bungalette&quot;, Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8478f9f9953171b02b72382852dc1ac782e2ff3ecdd020b148145ae8921df6b5\/B9F75F24-0098-44BE-93A0-45B0A8086FE0_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494322\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ece8e6a2e2069f5a59cc08dc08c68b2202384e224670d8da4aa40391e1c5a9b\/IMG_1300.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89929472\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Banks Terrace, Mile Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Banks Terrace, Mile Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/eead09b5f8668a54a10dfb1ca23e079d3457ac29cb84f6247c94ca66848feb45\/CDDE27D6-5C35-4FC0-A2A1-78221D7E8C95_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89773953\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Extended bungalette, Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"Extended bungalette, Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/da2a8ef0b517f99d10f899e06502ae970638eb728b7e2f0e8a3bb428fee43fb3\/8267B184-B80A-469F-9E26-3A56713AE7BE_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494393\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shurland Hall, Eastchurch, remaining gatehouse ot &quot;the house that played host to Henry VIII&quot;\" data-caption=\"Shurland Hall, Eastchurch, remaining gatehouse ot &quot;the house that played host to Henry VIII&quot;\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/42401fec7c909eb1b8855d3e7f80cc654c8e005024847cd8376b540e8c3f4516\/IMG_2603.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89927836\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Warden Point, the last house before the advancing cliff \" data-caption=\"Warden Point, the last house before the advancing cliff \"\/>\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"768\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ab60712165541fa7c97705d395b9ad4a31408d219842f5925064cb831fff04c8\/26F4EECC-1299-4089-A55D-75D179C452B6_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492404\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;As solid as a rock&quot;, house on Blue Town High Street, saved from slum clearance by Cypriot barber John Abramides\" data-caption=\"&quot;As solid as a rock&quot;, house on Blue Town High Street, saved from slum clearance by Cypriot barber John Abramides\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a5adb14a9d45ef214626a172bbfb2268ef34ca05221e9490c113cdea4ad005d0\/A373E8CF-86A8-429D-AC3B-08F5A028DF3D_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494398\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Flats where the Sea View Hotel once stood, Broadway, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Flats where the Sea View Hotel once stood, Broadway, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/095f789cb13c6f585084a90c518f8392d161c0f8f5ca4c739d9ccc6e8e8dcfd3\/F80432F5-F6FB-4941-B29F-2D6A7A331FDB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Remnant of the village that once served the Turkey Cement Works at Elmley\" data-caption=\"Remnant of the village that once served the Turkey Cement Works at Elmley\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a61eff57a7d93dbd72b2e12b418c3f75733a419739bf54a511de493de163f58d\/423FBF48-7F45-4062-998A-7017EF80C010_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492852\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Glass House, formerly the Victoria, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\" data-caption=\"The Glass House, formerly the Victoria, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1a0f891f7985302d283bfaa73e5b77706a2a85e95cd9bf9cd9cf3e496f5cd32e\/IMG_0911.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89667618\" border=\"0\" alt=\"26  &amp; 25 Marine Parade, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"26  &amp; 25 Marine Parade, Sheerness\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br><br><br><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>Sheerness<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A33%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3015bc5f48c81b1c631cc818b13b27dbeef8246bf50bf2ed5348a51412a3c66b\/IMG_0839.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91417732\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gentleman outside the Belle and Lion,  a Wetherspoon pub on Sheerness High Street, 6 July 2018\" data-caption=\"Gentleman outside the Belle and Lion,  a Wetherspoon pub on Sheerness High Street, 6 July 2018\"\/>\n<\/div> \n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\"><div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>\u201cOn-Sea\u201d <br>\nin all weathers<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"3\" grid-pad=\"0\"><img width=\"368\" height=\"585\" width_o=\"368\" height_o=\"585\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/74a287ffaa5643e738aefda4ee2d57fc12f2570a181e53acae20ecedc43a6036\/website1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87144033\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"89\"\/><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"7\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A34%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3062\" height=\"1849\" width_o=\"3062\" height_o=\"1849\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a7cbc222894c3747c4704a4fa54fe4049f2ce0c9170d48d0c0f9cd8564e4f3b7\/Scan-11-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"89118048\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A35%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a9e79c11f319c353189144a32557fa1346d0ab56c859546d810a8428338eb851\/0E6AFCE1-79F6-4714-A9FB-2D5DF51FC3A7_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89099215\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/14c
46de80e741a4ca999e2a7a2f4ed7348e8c24379fee12b13f6eafccd339cb519\/66FCB114-86EB-42C6-BF34-300FCB2C4177_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89298736\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7c15dbd0335eb3153a5c9934cbec81872aed6a7f37440c5e3729033c43a620b2\/EC834006-6052-4E28-8122-69536EC3CB39_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89779671\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/08b0b1333f227d187d70472dbfb8ab96f15adfa89eb1e53a49a67593aa90e99e\/3F144D18-D5DF-4F34-8F0B-E4E8BA99AC16_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89099176\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/16c504ce54bff8829aa40db44b87aef19508d09175b86fe1277011364b33a49e\/0EB84A52-B93B-4299-AF69-D8B254D6448B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89099357\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3215\" height=\"2018\" width_o=\"3215\" height_o=\"2018\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/771251d5079672acc77d4ab0c7515ff3d098e071ef30f1caa9dc03b88c7857f2\/Scan-13.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89018750\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3235\" height=\"2055\" width_o=\"3235\" height_o=\"2055\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cfcc662299c100f16fcbc92595a1d23045d696da07ca40c6dbadfa8058616523\/Scan-11.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89018752\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2380\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2380\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/af27b2f90669224885bfe912879819abc40b0e2c8a388e69a3764c4fdba55704\/D20120626-101.jpg\" data-mid=\"89018955\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>Under snow<\/h6>\n<br>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A36%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3637\" height=\"2433\" width_o=\"3637\" height_o=\"2433\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/704c285869e31022e11703eb3caca9b7b706ae6b466fd4ca1c68315b00e7a69a\/000008-1.JPG\" data-mid=\"88680962\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3637\" height=\"2433\" width_o=\"3637\" height_o=\"2433\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7de3a2535ba3d7f54ce1dd2370d9af939ab7a99ef1d3a758a4c3ad204a056c41\/000005.JPG\" data-mid=\"88680965\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2433\" height=\"3637\" width_o=\"2433\" height_o=\"3637\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6c3e6866cf9eac8057a4a832fd0fe472c49812300551c9c9b7a2c413b066a989\/000007_Fotor2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88681013\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2433\" height=\"3637\" width_o=\"2433\" height_o=\"3637\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6fc4c42f141b9b77670370394d50a26bcac2a625bbb52fbe2c72a9abef72c476\/000002_Fotor.jpg\" data-mid=\"88681075\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2433\" height=\"3637\" width_o=\"2433\" height_o=\"3637\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c4562063225f13a3e577226801ffc8a0211bf7eaa32bf579623023a8dce6d69e\/000001_Fotor.jpg\" data-mid=\"88688136\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h7>Sheerness photographed on 28 February 2018 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spilleon94\/?hl=en\">Simeon Haselton<\/a> \u201cwith my granddad's old [medium format Agfa Billy Record] camera, which was created in\nthe mid-30s, around the time of Uwe Johnson's birth\u201d.<\/h7><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>D.H. Lawrence on Marine Parade\u2019s <br>\nFirst Breakwater<\/h6>\n<br>\n<\/div><img width=\"1104\" height=\"890\" width_o=\"1104\" height_o=\"890\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/29da6e23361fb1ab5aed73db160a8795ea6ab0b35977857ab7c1d5002e018592\/Fig-83.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89669699\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Parade, circa 1865\" data-caption=\"Marine Parade, circa 1865\"\/><br><br>\n<h5>D.H. Lawrence\u2019s mother, Lydia Beardsall, grew up in Sheerness before 1870, when an accident in the dockyard&nbsp; wrecked her father\u2019s health and forced the family, which had lived there since 1858,&nbsp; to leave in some penury. Lawrence would later describe her as a \u201csuperior soul\u201d(by which he surely didn\u2019t mean that she was a snob).&nbsp; He also used her as the model for Gertrude Morel in his novel <i>Sons and Lovers<\/i> (1913): sensitive and intelligent but married to a brutalised and drunken Nottingham miner and inclined, in the midst of this life of \u201cdreary endurance\u201d, to grieve for the girl who had \u201crun so lightly on the breakwater at Sheerness ten years before\u201d.<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br><br>\n\n\n\n<br><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>Sheerness from above<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\n<h5>\u201cThen, for the first time, I saw Sheerness from 10,000 feet up, a spit of land between the Medway and the Thames.\u201d<br>\u2014 Uwe Johnson, 1978<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A37%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"719\" height=\"382\" width_o=\"719\" height_o=\"382\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/23c1960006b6b5ca2d81701a9b1484c7f62115c6505f93d33891876af072abed\/Im19100104Aero-Rolls.jpg\" data-mid=\"89017163\" border=\"0\" alt=\"C. S. Rolls in his Short-Wright flyer at the Aero Club&rsquo;s flying ground, Shellbeach, Sheppey, Flight, 1909\" data-caption=\"C. S. Rolls in his Short-Wright flyer at the Aero Club\u2019s flying ground, Shellbeach, Sheppey, Flight, 1909\"\/>\n<img width=\"1098\" height=\"716\" width_o=\"1098\" height_o=\"716\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6cfb76bc41b175703ea52bdc42f306d4313eb497ed5611c647d5f3df083c2586\/A6DE0209-CE5F-4DCA-92AB-BA99B9AD7137_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"8928
466833\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Diewenow, a spit of land on the Pomeranian Baltic, where Johnson remembered summer days as an infant with his farming grandparents. Postcard, sent 1944\" data-caption=\"Diewenow, a spit of land on the Pomeranian Baltic, where Johnson remembered summer days as an infant with his farming grandparents. Postcard, sent 1944\"\/>\n<img width=\"2863\" height=\"2801\" width_o=\"2863\" height_o=\"2801\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/68080292a2abb898b78b4937d2ac452a15fb8e1355ef843422b77b3f5e337013\/D20120626-105-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88955214\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheerness, c. 1978, looking west across the town and port to the Medway\" data-caption=\"Sheerness, c. 1978, looking west across the town and port to the Medway\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A38%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22slide%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"6425\" height=\"4339\" width_o=\"6425\" height_o=\"4339\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/71e8926bcb7f01558e24876dc3a6c054f0e79fac8b79523050ab4a56816e588c\/Fig-38-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91550583\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Luftwaffe aerial photo of the &quot;war Harbour&quot; at Sheerness, 1943\" data-caption=\"Luftwaffe aerial photo of the &quot;war Harbour&quot; at Sheerness, 1943\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A39%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2938\" height=\"2007\" width_o=\"2938\" height_o=\"2007\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/91be5853e242621c89ce1fd91c027e820fa4b01c8249f0f0d5c737da77be94d1\/D20120626-103-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88955226\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, Sheerness, c. 1978. Aerial photos by George Poule, Studio 137, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, Sheerness, c. 1978. Aerial photos by George Poule, Studio 137, Sheerness\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n<br><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A40%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f065de2e7cdf2a896ce793e167b231b3c937ea194bc3fec69068b05f95426307\/64D8936C-FDB5-4274-947F-9899DA7A3FC1_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89490663\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Marine Parade, looking east from the sea wall opposite Johnson's house, 2017\" data-caption=\" Marine Parade, looking east from the sea wall opposite Johnson's house, 2017\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h5>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-3nbXM5VUCI\">Johnson\u2019s neighbourhood<\/a> as a German visitor filmed it when he was still there in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-3nbXM5VUCI\">1981.<\/a><\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"> <\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br>\n<br>\n<h6>The Johnsons\u2019 House<\/h6><br><img width=\"343\" height=\"204\" width_o=\"343\" height_o=\"204\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cdfe191d147c077b96258c5db214f487efb1a6518b2e5125704fccadbd2f8c39\/D20120626-103-jst-house.jpg\" data-mid=\"92937427\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<\/div><\/div><br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A41%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3a96b0d0d450d33f96ce3eb5e29f749c1039141ba0ec9bd6ce53b1e998dd43da\/IMG_0911.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88690802\" border=\"0\" alt=\"26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f87e7d2cd51bad311da5e4f82b97bd17b5cbf74f1e986017337d1974406300ca\/Two-Ships-test13.tiff184-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88704809\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7534eebb0986f1e9b1673302a7977e50687839a77c1ed3224e3726d9b074dd97\/Two-Ships-test15-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88704169\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/63d2b252ddc0039020f33b9a91c86a15439c2b0d40edd9ba2e5cd3795ce1b20e\/Two-Ships-test14-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88704163\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/911b618fa58beeff89295db73129e9cf69ee67245e708f0b9ccba1a620be4d0b\/Two-Ships-test9-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88705156\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1308\" height=\"912\" width_o=\"1308\" height_o=\"912\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/fc7670d1eac93d5cceb4ba5fd20f971f0f738efdc2f29dd5ad8759ae27a11aac\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.03.27.png\" data-mid=\"89522967\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ac98b033ac99d491e8b3e7f812ca5c9a8f11a1e3971e9aa607c2a9aeb9f97538\/65B0CCD7-D4BC-47E3-AEE7-F12282E800BE_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299680\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e8e62cdcf52a36097a64ecd721cc23c9d7e9417b14c6fb63dd03f4a67f69d9ed\/F41B43F4-9E9C-4F70-9A1B-AF3349F65AA3_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88694577\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A42%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/204146674ee60b7bb25df82669d3868f0441cc29de0e5267e6b32cd51e86bbed\/Rear-View-1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998573\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8ac036edcd5a6eb02c2ff1971d2e498bbbf006a093e46e95205ab932823f303f\/Rear-View-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998574\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ef1336a72c1836c1dba8ad6139b69de423985e999bdd0177ce693dba99c11ac\/Rear-View-3.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998576\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c8b6b3dfedb941cb59dcc731fcf8a6b29f84d87f05abd07f1beba097e4baf529\/Rear-view-3.3.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998575\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/065a7e97ab6c7fd7ec5485aea480e30779aca7b0083bd254398507da3057cdc0\/Raar-View-3.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998572\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4e10e29bdd362e7ff4b8948322e19a1133a10c0082bb73895f1f8068af479b4a\/Rear-View-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998577\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/53f0e6de1d959d976f809bd6019ab5fd523052dddbb42f2709b9cf84228c3ed1\/Rear-View-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998578\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\"><div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490867047?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<br><\/div><\/div><\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h5>Mutual Aid: scaling the Heights of Alma. A pub seen from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade<\/h5><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>Neighbour: Martin Aynscomb Harris, <br>the artist next door but one<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><h6><br>\n\n\n\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><img width=\"4170\" height=\"2730\" width_o=\"4170\" height_o=\"2730\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/43954bb79c36ef2588ab4e5d8d0c756083e84983440f280703821471ff73bb93\/56349004.jpg\" data-mid=\"89672366\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cHe drives a Jaguar, even if he uses it the way other people use apple carts\u201d (UJ, <i>Sea View,<\/i> 346-66).<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><\/h6><br><h6><br>\n\n\n\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><img width=\"1280\" height=\"889\" width_o=\"1280\" height_o=\"889\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ac64d296e1dd40f33f4e47ab5339aaf73d8de94bf50ab4f37af988b28672369a\/thumbn
46ail_image001-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"99430033\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<h5>Martin Aynscomb Harris, selected paintings exhibited against his father-in-law\u2019s car, Rowland\u2019s Castle, Hampshire, c. 1965 (both pictures shown with thanks to Louise &amp; Emma Harris).<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/h6><br><br><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>Looking Through Glass<\/h6>\n\n<br>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n\n\t\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480080407?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h5>Lighthouse, Cap Arkona, R\u00fcgen<\/h5> &nbsp;<\/div><h5>G\u00fcnter Kunert once suggested that Uwe Johnson viewed the world through a \u201cbell jar of strangeness\u201d.&nbsp; Yet the glass behind which he isolated himself was surely the lens of an observatory too. When I put a question about Johnson\u2019s essay \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d to the German sociologist Renate Mayntz, who was a friend of the writer over many years, she described it as \u201cvery characteristic of [Johnson\u2019s] way of looking at reality: incisive, cold, as objective as possible, a camera that catches all details and even the legacy, the history inscribed in the present... I think in his passionate search for descriptive exactness, for \u2018truth\u2019 without implied protest or some normative \u2018message\u2019, he was a true representative of Enlightenment. There are things you don\u2019t have to say, you just need to show them.\u201d <br>\n<i>The Sea View Has Me Again, <\/i>p. 589.<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h6><div style=\"text-align: center\">Johnson\u2019s other Observatory<\/div><\/h6><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A43%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1736\" height=\"972\" width_o=\"1736\" height_o=\"972\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/59ec72f8b6c705f03f0b6458d47d607861bfdb3075684a257d8c32a08a61fef8\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-15.59.56.png\" data-mid=\"89522565\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Napier Tavern, Broadway, Sheerness, 2016.\" data-caption=\"Napier Tavern, Broadway, Sheerness, 2016.\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><h5><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\nJohnson once told <i>Le Monde<\/i> that his years in the GDR had equipped him with an \u201cirreplaceable method of interrogation and experimentation.\u201d (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 36). Two local pubs, in particular, came to serve as the informal research institutes in which he applied this challenging mode of enquiry to the people of Sheerness. His chosen hostelries, The Sea View Hotel and the Napier Tavern, were both on Broadway, close to his house. According to Ronald Peel, publican at the Napier Tavern, Johnson always turned up at the same time in the evening, stepping into the&nbsp; saloon bar with a brief \u201cGood Evening\u201d \u2014 or \u201cGood heavening!\u201d as Johnson himself imagines them registering his pronunciation \u2014 and then taking his customary place on a high, wooden barstool with a seat upholstered in red synthetic leather of the type Tom Waits was in those days hymning as \u201cNaugahyde\u201d. He allegedly always wore the same distinctive garb too: a black peaked wat
46chman\u2019s cap, a black leather jacket, black trousers, black leather boots, and sometimes a thin black leather tie \u2014 the same gear, in other words, that had shocked the poet and translator, Michael Hamburger, who had been astonished to find this highly regarded and sensitive writer going about in the garb of a Hell\u2019s Angel or skinhead. <i>(Sea View, <\/i>p. 392)<br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>\u201cCharlie\u2019s\u201d bar stool<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A44%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/942d491d255f3063f573b6ac191e7754dbcaefdb82a97f1c5808d71832d10b79\/D6C497B4-1845-47CA-A20A-A478448F0A81_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88684101\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><i><\/i><i><br><\/i><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><i><h5> Long preserved as a relic at the Napier Tavern, the stool from which Johnson, aka \u201cCharlie\u201d, observed and sometimes participated in proceedings is here seen in use as a prop with Big Fish and Friends at their performance of texts from UJ\u2019s Island Stories, Little Theatre, Meyrick Road, Sheerness, 5 March 2016.<\/h5><\/i><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br>\n<br><br><br><br><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\">\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><b><h6>The bedspread and the kidney machine: charity fund-raising at the Sea View Hotel<\/h6><\/b><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><img width=\"2482\" height=\"1638\" width_o=\"2482\" height_o=\"1638\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c3ff91b0c45093d35ec02d90f0f837488aec4455257dce135db394121ce39f4a\/P.-424-new-pic-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91560146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h5>Publican Col Mason (left) handing a cheque for \u00a3184 to the chairman of the local kidney machine fund. \u201cThe Mayor is in attendance, complete with his chains, and so too is Johnson: an uncaptioned figure standing alongside the others at the back.\u201d (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 401). The white object, front, was first prize in the raffle. As Johnson wrote to friends in Rostock: \u201cNow I wanted to win that bedspread for you. Further details can be found on the two enclosed raffle tickets, and as for this white monstrosity\u2019s weight, I will say only that the ladies\u2019 knees buckled slightly when it was placed in their two arms for them to admire it.\u201d The picture was printed in the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian<\/i> on 15 September 1978.<br>\n<\/h5><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h5><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><h6>The (other) sociologist and the glass that was never raised<\/h6><\/b><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>Johnson, may have been unaware of it, but he wasn\u2019t the\nonly person investigating the Isle of Sheppey and the situation of its remaining people after the naval dockyard and also the associated army garrison and naval command (\u201cThe Nore\u201d )&nbsp; were closed in 1960. &nbsp; Ray Pahl, the geographically trained professor\nof Sociology at the University of Kent, also started exploring the Isle of Sheppey\nin the 1970s.&nbsp; <\/h5>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img width=\"182\" height=\"220\" width_o=\"182\" height_o=\"220\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7405fe8475f3e78b6410a322b0cdbd070113148919db31ddb275ef9678aeec33\/pahl_ray.jpg\" data-mid=\"93896403\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br>\n<\/div><h5>\nIndeed, he adopted the\nisland as a kind of research laboratory in which to investigate the consequences\nof deindustrialisation of the kind that had destroyed the island\u2019s economy at a\nstroke. Starting out with romantic ideas of the \u201curban pirate\u201d with his often\nless than legal ways of \u201cgetting by\u201d, he approached the Isle of Sheppey as a\nplace where the post-industrial future was already coming into view. He traced the\nemergence of the \u201cinformal economy\u201d on the island, and the replacement of the full\ntime male job with a more mixed form of \u201chousehold economy\u201d in which w
46omen\u2019s\nwork, DIY initiatives, &nbsp;and sometimes nefarious\nforms of \u201cself-provisioning\u201d featured largely. \nTogether w ith his Ph.D student and co-researcher, Claire Wallace, Pahl also\nstudied the experience and perceptions of school leavers on the island. They produced\nwork of abiding influence on economic and social policy \u2013 Pahl in his book <i>Divisions\nof Labour <\/i>(1984) and Wallace in her later study of the \u201cfracture\u201d the closure\nimposed on the lives and expectations of girls and boys in <i>For Richer, For\nPoorer: Growing up In and Out of Work<\/i> (1987). &nbsp;Johnson and Pahl may never have met to compare\nfindings but their accounts of island life in the seventies and early eighties have\na world in common.&nbsp; <br>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"3197\" height=\"2027\" width_o=\"3197\" height_o=\"2027\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/817b89362dc8c295167165daf94c39e76df642ace57abd8ef520d1950e062900\/Fig-75-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93892661\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n <br>\nThe Kingsferry Bridge across the Swale was built&nbsp; in\n1960, a year in which the island economy was shattered by the closure of the\ndockyard at Sheerness. An entirely practical structure, which carried trains as\nwell as road vehicles between Sheppey and the richer mainland to which Kent\u2019s\nreputation as the \u201cGarden of England\u201d has always been attached, it achieved&nbsp; symbolic significance for Pahl:<br><br>\n\u201cPahl\u2019s drive over the Kingsferry Bridge was not just\na crossing from the\u201cmacro\u201d to the \u201cmicro\u201d level of analysis, nor, in the terms that\nhis PhD student and co-researcher Claire Wallace would borrow from the sociologist\nBasil Bernstein, from the \u201celaborated\u201d code<br>of middle-class language to the more practical and allegedly \u201crestricted\u201d code\nof working-class speech. For Pahl, crossing the Swale also meant preferring\n\u201chard, obdurate reality\u201d against the \u201cdisembodied\u201d theories gripping many of\nhis colleagues at the university. Sheppey was where Pahl would take his stand,\nseeking to go beyond the vivid but far from \u201cscientific\u201d investigations carried\nout by Mass Observation and by writers such as George Orwell and J.B. Priestley\nin the Thirties. As time went on, he would also claim common cause with E.P. Thompson,\nthe Marxist historian and activist who asserted the case for experience, agency\nand the historically dynamic nature of social class as against what he called\nthe \u201cpoverty of theory\u201d [embodied by Louis Althusser and his English followers] in a blazing\nEnglish tract published in 1978.\u201d&nbsp; (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 421)<\/h5><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>Sheerness Times Guardian<\/h6><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\n<h5>Wherever he found himself, Uwe Johnson required newspapers. In West Germany, it might be <i>Die Zeit<\/i> or <i>Der Spiegel<\/i>.&nbsp; In Rome it was L<i>a Stampa<\/i>. He read the <i>New York Times<\/i> in Berlin as well as during his trips to America.&nbsp; In England he took both the national <i>Guardian<\/i> and the island weekly, the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian.<\/i><\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A45%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"696\" height=\"1008\" width_o=\"696\" height_o=\"1008\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d47c57f98a98ed607c3db6151ce419d541b6d109bc909ea3a9faba6ad94c3b47\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.59.20.png\" data-mid=\"89529984\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo: Michael Thomas, 2012\" data-caption=\"Photo: Michael Thomas, 2012\"\/>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br>\n<h5>In the first edition on January 1858, the founder of the <i>Sheerness Guardian, <\/i>Thomas Rigg, had hailed Sheerness as an outward-looking new town that had nothing in common with parochial and tradition-bound communities on the Kentish mainland. <br><br>Unlike such backwaters, Sheerness had \u201cscarcely any aboriginal race\u201d. It was open to the wider world via the naval and military establishments that formed the primary reason for its existence. The town, said Rigg, was \u201ca colony of emigrants from all parts of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.\u201d And \u201cto such a society,\u201d so Rigg proudly declared, \u201cthe affairs of the neighbouring country are, in most cases, about as interesting as the local policy of Timbuctoo.\u201d<\/h5><br>\n<h5>More than a century later, the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian<\/i>&nbsp;
46 would provide Johnson with stories \u2014informative, moving and peculiar too \u2014 to pass on to faraway friends. It would also serve as a screen, or perhaps something closer to a crinkly net curtain, through which an unconvinced incomer might peer without giving anything away: a useful device, in other words, when it comes to keeping your perceptions \u201cnon-committal\u201d and, as Johnson continued in a letter to Max Frisch, preventing them from \u2018ascending into experience or judgement\u2019. There was, though, an exception to be made for the <i>Kent Evening Post <\/i>(context:<i> Sea View, <\/i>pp. 452-58)<\/h5>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n <div style=\"text-align: center\"><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><img width=\"1489\" height=\"1850\" width_o=\"1489\" height_o=\"1850\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ba126e2e10b85d4be7f4bf28517d0c8d51b8ceeda6d9aff5b1764c39e68ca94e\/IMG_0444-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91672980\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"58\" alt=\"Johnson's postcardf to the Kent Evening Post, 3 April 1981\" data-caption=\"Johnson's postcardf to the Kent Evening Post, 3 April 1981\"\/><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><h5><br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br>\n<br><br><i><br><\/i><\/h5><div style=\"text-align: center\"><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\" grid-responsive=\"\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h6>Island Music<\/h6><br><h5><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A46%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"510\" height=\"510\" width_o=\"510\" height_o=\"510\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a6a054aa859167eb11ca184229ff5e756a7371540ce5ac68c41a81b501c63633\/michael-contant-2011-legacy-cd-458.jpg\" data-mid=\"89673636\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"61\"\/>\n<\/div><\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><h5><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\">Henry Russell, the composer of \u201cA Life on the Ocean Wave\u201d,: Cheers, Boys, Cheers\u201d and many other popular songs of the nineteenth century, was born into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jtrails.org.uk\/trails\/sheerness-and-blue-town\" target=\"_blank\">Sheerness\u2019s Jewish community<\/a> in 1812.<br><br>Yet the island\u2019s music had changed by the 1970s. As Johnson is likely to have discovered from the pages of the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian,<\/i> Michael \u201cNatsy\u201d Contant was one of the very first to introduce Caribbean steel bands to Britain and Europe. Having come from Trinidad as a tuner with the Dixieland Steel Orchestra in 1960, he lived for many years at 7 Delamark Road in Sheerness, tuning pans on a stretch of waste ground&nbsp; beside Kingsferry Bridge and, with his classically trained wife Carol and their children, forming the Rainbow Steel Band, which regularly presented \u201cmusic of the Caribean\u201d on the island as well as elsewhere in Britain and Europe. Their \u201chauntingly beautiful\u201d sound, and especially&nbsp; their arrangement of Richard Addinsell\u2019s \u201cWarsaw Concerto\u201d, appears to have been particularly popular with Sheppey audiences.<br>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j4ggyO-OFXU&amp;list=FLYipnd3sALx9zFdqLd_PagQ&amp;index=1514\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLove My Life\u201d<\/a> Robbie Williams\u2019s day at Shellness<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><\/h5>\n<br><br><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n<br>\n <br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h5><\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"1.75\" grid-gutter=\"3.5\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"1.75\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"1.75\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5>St. Sexburgha\u2019s Abbey: Minster-on-Sea:<br><\/h5>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ccc977ed6a9aff52eb1fd8820694add281c289d2bca0ca90f85266b4e62
460d91f\/281C13E6-C7E2-4151-96B7-F39B451E6CAA_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89235809\" border=\"0\" \/><br><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"5\" grid-pad=\"1.75\"><br><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e56018be582db839cdbeca82943aad83936d269c962ee4916afd881083db2688\/80B1C021-AA42-4291-A0EA-77D87098C33B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89287864\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"1.75\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A47%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ec717cb5618d84c9cdf322fd7c5c58195a87d526dfb37a8340036ed5a77366bd\/Raar-View-3.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91697030\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Minster Abbey, from top rear window of Johnson's house, 2018\" data-caption=\"Minster Abbey, from top rear window of Johnson's house, 2018\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"x10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>INTERWININGS<br>\n<br>The Transnational Landscape:<br> Ahrenshoop, Fischland and Shellbeach, Sheppey<\/h6><\/div><br>\n<h5>\u201cFischland is the most beautiful place in the world.\u201d <br>\u2014 Gesine Cresspahl in <i>Anniversaries IV<\/i><br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2047\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2047\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ebced1cb51aa3b4fc181baffabc0b93986b1e3e86ea8f63abfcde172cbd4c7e\/Scan-14-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91677785\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img width=\"2484\" height=\"3408\" width_o=\"2484\" height_o=\"3408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3c71e9d02cd5dd0a3b9773d743c57ee6e9ef997e75a43c4df66e0aa5fb6b8d64\/Scan-15.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91677783\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A48%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490856546?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Aooroaching the sea, Ahrenshoop.\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<br><div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/488070698?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\" data-caption=\"Ahrenshoop (amateur version)\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><br>\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A49%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9e2fac08524c6c8da19c13843a7156a44ff3a5b3bc70af11160cf03f019b87c3\/Ahrenshoop-Summer.jpeg\" data-mid=\"8912
460782\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ahrenshoop in Summer\" data-caption=\"Ahrenshoop in Summer\"\/>\n<img width=\"4099\" height=\"2729\" width_o=\"4099\" height_o=\"2729\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f74a84d2c380bb1e2bc11967c4f8b30df4df1d9b9eb166bbc1ff8435c2d35405\/Shellness-with-bungalettes.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89121089\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness\" data-caption=\"Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2197471a5683e81a083026c92c9ba4031d1532015d6db5b0543161de0b367be8\/sherllness-closer.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87151722\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness\" data-caption=\"Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5ae65facaa191ac4016d8cae0bce48067e09e67fc50256e90cd7719fbd56d965\/Ahrenshoop-Winter.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89121085\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ahrenshoop in Winter\" data-caption=\"Ahrenshoop in Winter\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<br>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"x12\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480081945?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\" data-caption=\"Two &quot;bungalettes&quot;, Shellbeach\"><\/iframe><\/div><br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<h5>On Sheppey, the Englishman isn\u2019t always an Englishman and his home is definitely neither a castle nor a stately home raised on colonial extraction or slavery. \u201cBungalettes\u201dat Shellbeach.<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><h6>Two Island Resorts<\/h6><\/div><br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h5>1. Leysdown-on-Sea<\/h5><br><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490866094?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\"><\/iframe>\n\n<br>\n<\/div><br>\n<h5>\u201cWe\ncan all agree that Britain\u2019s coast has been trashed. Yet has it ever been so\nsedulously trashed as on Sheppey? Leysdown on the northeast corner of that isle\nis terminal England, the last resort, the nadir of bungalow development. It makes Hayling look like Biarritz...\u201d <br>\u2014 Jonathan Meades, \u201cLast Resort\u201d (1991)<\/h5><br><br><img width=\"3150\" height=\"1997\" width_o=\"3150\" height_o=\"1997\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e7f745c6b593676558baa3ffe6d946ebb9d4ca00f02cadf03125235496dbbdc1\/Leysdown-1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941322\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"998\" height=\"748\" width_o=\"998\" height_o=\"748\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ef412a69a0d71696b10112645daaa2539868e8e1b09fbb43310306871c2a3f9\/Leysdown-2.png\" data-mid=\"92941775\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"3211\" height=\"2049\" width_o=\"3211\" height_o=\"2049\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/09786d56c8710bbedb51e1c3b907234707be620d3b115cb9b373f09302185dac\/Leysdown-3.jpg\" data-mid=\"92941323\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"3171\" height=\"1925\" width_o=\"3171\" height_o=\"1925\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/db850b714b9c99731adf21460c1050400ca0225c1b7a4222189b6df6cbfafd7c\/Leysdown-4.jpg\" data-mid=\"92941325\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/98c8c9bbf91a0f5dc06b5612b9fe16f2bdd0138a8320394af5f2f4652e729a1e\/Leysdown-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941327\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br><h5>\u201cThe bricolage and inspiredly untutored inventiveness of most early twentieth century plotlands is missing. On the shore, half a mile from the village\u2019s centre, there are asbestos and woo
46den hutments, endlessly buffeted by the howling easterly. Bent bushes try to smother them.\u201d&nbsp; (Meades)<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4eebf3aa6e48792fe979a666248c1713fe1f40a9656c612eafb0cb5083ba3b46\/Leysdown-6.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941328\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c0040981d09544252487ae7b9cca53b8ed6b2f9e1ef5379f7eee327028ec28bd\/Leysdown-7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941753\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/235e857916fb26846a847e97240d5bd783ae65680b9fc2552cc594ce5a4d0d16\/Leysdown-8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941756\" border=\"0\" \/><h5>\u201cLeysdown on Sea is the ancestral dreamsite of a Lost Tribe: all the aboriginal cockney characteristics, celebrated in fiction and in song, have migrated here \u2013 and have been buried alive in pitches of caravans, mobile homes, wooded sentry boxes (inner-city privies), and upturned tin boats, veterans of Dunkirk.\u201d (Iain Sinclair, <i>Downriver <\/i>(1991, p. 397).<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"1186\" height=\"880\" width_o=\"1186\" height_o=\"880\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4d9758a6e25b0c39301df9e74a78bc9ba608e5731cb4d0d88eb66b3f70434caf\/Screenshot-2020-12-23-at-12.13.22-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"92941280\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"1266\" height=\"936\" width_o=\"1266\" height_o=\"936\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1c67be87860d51c3c189cc9df25c2f620818d794b227b5041cf2f39fe720a74d\/Leysdown-10.png\" data-mid=\"92941485\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"1532\" height=\"846\" width_o=\"1532\" height_o=\"846\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/063ee9d71160cf38be198135a56df75257883b5fc518f2d284d6ba4b7773e9a8\/Leysdown-11.png\" data-mid=\"92941487\" border=\"0\" \/><h5><br>Out-of-season objectors aside, Squeeze\u2019s song \u201cPulling Mussels from the Shell\u201d (1980) was inspired by nostalgic memories of family holidays at Leysdown.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/Squeeze\u2019s song, \u201cPulling Mussels from the Shell\u201d, (1980), was inspired by memories of holidays at Leysdown. It is here accompanied by footage from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.&nbsp;\">Here<\/a> it is, accompanied by footage from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.&nbsp;<\/h5><br><br>\n<br><h5>Regeneration: Heavy Lifting by Artists (2009-2013) \n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francisknight.co.uk\/public-realm\/leysdown-rose-tinted\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLeysdown-Rose-Tinted\u201d<\/a><br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A50%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"551\" height=\"350\" width_o=\"551\" height_o=\"350\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/50a311701ec74d18b68c3c7b255d55f1c81b1f7b4039926f37ee8a014bf48ca3\/sign_cropped.jpg\" data-mid=\"91552747\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/575d58ffd09b540d7f4d47e9285613c877589e33cad45cfd7bce9ee8bb235926\/IMG_1161.JPG\" data-mid=\"89240235\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4dbc8cf999ba8d285f387791bf8e16b19c838db3af6f220ba2060e6db3ef0883\/IMG_1162.JPG\" data-mid=\"89240194\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><br>\n<br><br><div style=\"text-align: center\"><h5>2. Prora<\/h5><\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A51%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2459\" height=\"1883\" width_o=\"2459\" height_o=\"1883\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/517c90e776fc88b1173513984eff3e2c2842a8432df7468818f04cf5bf9a4c83\/Prora-1-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"92005341\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A wall in the Documentation Centre at Prora\" data-caption=\"A wall in the Documentation Centre at Prora\"\/>\n<\/div><br><h5>Whatever may be said about the laissez-faire mess that is Leysdown-on-Sea, it was never as dismal as the colossal resort of Prora, built in the late Thirties as part of the Nazi government\u2019s \u201cStrength through Joy\u201d initiative. Conceived as one of five vast \u201cSea Baths\u201d proposed for workers following the destruction of Germany\u2019s trade unions, it consists of a series of huge six-floor concrete blocks placed along the 4.5 kilometre length of a magnificent Baltic beach on the spit connecting Sassnitz and Binz on the eastern coast of the Pomeranian Island of R\u00fcgen.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A52%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bc147e0e23b9f0d1a98f6da5fe4b5db3cd9714b692ad6e7dfe03b73a0a89c2ba\/Prora-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005342\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1e9dc705930ebcc61f3ef124dbc0373db5fcb9372cea72cc153bee14a6713414\/Prora-3.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005343\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/091357721057d4969536a0f1228a80bf0974c40da1152d733a59a16b1c62bbcf\/Prorta-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005354\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6031eddfe0a26c28890b6c0ab2067ad09a5e2f6298d7710f21e4068c7858650a\/Prota-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005355\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bfdf7432a4732af433249d4eba41b6425ae0424bfc577b6875c720494a039b6d\/5Prora-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005340\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br><h5>Robert Ley, the Nazi head of the German Labour Front (Uwe Johnson allows him a brief appearance in <i>Anniversaries<\/i> as a \u201cdrunken pig\u201d), imagined Prora as a Nazi answer to Butlins that would provide compliant workers with a week of indoctrinated leisure. Every room would have a sea view. There would be cinemas, swimming pools, canteens and, at Hitler\u2019s insistence, a central arena in which twenty thousand joyful workers could be addressed as a concentrated Sieg Heiling mass.<br>\n\n\n\n <\/h5><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A53%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2096\" height=\"3724\" width_o=\"2096\" height_o=\"3724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d7f96e98c5edb75e5bcf4027bf7d772be79a8decd0f63124e94781d90207fd15\/Prora-5.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005344\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/35f1bc38c5f00bbe36c5152bfad7d35eade281a5c500422fe9c713cbb08730c4\/Prora-7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005348\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/73dcf824d21b764d299cd94cab6537081706aa6ba95e6b264f0301b4bcfb3ae4\/Prora-7.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005345\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3b8eed2fcde05032743d080a4b051c0c1f0a500990e7d1cd39945466204a1866\/Prora-7.7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005346\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1e97940068ade27c939405d61db962e523af96cf45f95b44a3262d204bfb47a6\/Prora-7.8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005347\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4eb8413cddd28cdf6833e818f45aaac7ce6532a9165cbb6a4f60a934a5d9b9b7\/Prora-8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005349\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6c7eabd746a0a989b81c4af713a03464ed59be4a7ffd497c669a1d29418f5c2e\/Prtra-9.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005356\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a9c34395c7413321d0b5dd9f09c571a85ea9ccbc719de5b551a048dd5eb9e809\/Prora-10.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005352\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8bb8c9ea8d76ca363bd975d411bce333173912c762a9165dd839ba24519364a6\/Prors-6.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005353\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br>\n<h5>In 1991 this never-completed line of Aryan barracks (construction was interrupted by the outbreak of war in September 1939) emerged from GDR military control as a set of disconcerting ruins. When we last visited the site, some of its reinforced concrete was acquiring an unexpectedly luxurious shine. The developers who had bought some of the blocks, themselves now listed for conservation, were bringing them to new life, although not as the centre for refugees that some critics have suggested might be appropriate. Two-bedroom apartments with new balconies were being offered at \u20ac600,000 and upward.<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490858645?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br><br><h5><a href=\" https:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20180808\/investor-turning-nazi-indoctrination-camp-into-luxury-apartments-goes-bust\" target=\"_blank\">The Investor shipwrecked.<\/a><br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6><br>\nOne Window: Two Ships<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h6><br><h5><div style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cIt all revolved around the view. It was the view that was appropriated.\u201d <br>\n\u2014 Uwe Johnson, on Riverside Park, \u201cA Part of New York,\u201d 1968 <br>\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/h5><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A54%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7f30b412efb29e5e14ce625cd1e683bdd49b2aab8518b598112af8c4a8538d8c\/DSCN0298.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91668705\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2413\" height=\"3625\" width_o=\"2413\" height_o=\"3625\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6aa1bae34ce427fd7ab66251723986987d0f55bb5fd5b5aafd99acb7ed3a67ed\/IMG_0712-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91669059\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2304\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"2304\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7cf1f90c3a1e405feefaf047cf40c21e512d6a04014926241fc697c6e108f6cb\/IMG_0606.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91668931\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br><div style=\"text-align: left\"><h5>\u201cIt may be not merely egotistical if I describe to you some views to be seen over the course of a few afternoon hours. Views, namely, out the window, and I wish you could have seen them: the two of us, next to each other, right in front of the house, where the poorer folks from London enjoy disporting themselves on a Sunday like this one, as tourists by the sea, visible only from the waist up to me and my dear wife Mrs. Letsnotdiscussit, and yet still a valuable warning about the lack of, or taste in, leisure attire. Following them come the waves of the River Thames, sea-like here, beating against the stones as high or as low as the Royal Geographical Tidal Institute\u2019s calendar permits them to. For an ignorant observer such as myself, they are merely bright white a long way out, a little dirty-looking but choppy in any case; the last third of my visual field, though, is <i>as blue as blue can be, <\/i>magnificently changeable, from pale to gray to strapping within this color. Within and atop this blue, what is there to say to a lady from K\u00f6nigsberg: bathers in various stages of suffering from sunburn, boats with sails in fashionable colorations, some of them even classified and many of them well-suited to offer me certain memories, silent but critical, pertaining to the process of jibing. People paddling, those who let themselves be brought hither and thither by petrol engines, and on the horizon, where cartography would suggest that we should be able to detect the south coast of Essex, merely a difference: not a line, a smudge between water and sky, that educated people label as a horizon and which is therefore mine. And I\u2019ve almost forgotten to admit to you the rude British Petroleum oil tanker that just now went pitching from right to left, from east to west, across the window \u2014 probably because I believe I share your opinion of such objects in one\u2019s field of view.\u201d\n<br>\n<i>\u2014<\/i><i>
46 Uwe Johnson, Letter to Hannah Arendt, 8\/3\/1975<\/i>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><\/div><br>\n<\/div><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<br><br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6><br>\nThe SS Richard Montgomery:<br>\n \u201cWhat is that thing?\u201d<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h6><\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A55%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1727\" height=\"470\" width_o=\"1727\" height_o=\"470\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e512443ccbb68e274b28f92041130dd5e313a7da268e3941c802c2f0a857ed60\/RM12.png\" data-mid=\"92464471\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1732\" height=\"836\" width_o=\"1732\" height_o=\"836\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0932b4431011a9d1ff73f95cb138c93da729c53345dc11ef8d4e9ed5f78758dc\/RM-2.png\" data-mid=\"92464334\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5><br>\n\u201cIn the Thames, about two miles off the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, a cluster of parallel diagonal poles catches one\u2019s eye. They are visible especially at low tide, but also when the tide is eighteen feet higher, because behind them tosses and pitches almost ten miles of the water\u2019s surface as well as, since the Essex coast in the distance quite noticeably veers off to the north, the horizon line under the quickly shifting illuminations of the sky. Whoever moves here to the town of Sheerness, on the northwest corner of the island, is struck by the reflections of the light in the multiply moving mouth of the Thames and North Sea, and at first he thinks those poles are fish traps, blown into a diagonal position by a ferocious west wind, since the eye is easily fooled about distances when looking out across a boundless body of water; the black triangle that becomes visible between the poles at ebb tide can easily be taken for a fishing boat with underlying property rights. Whoever has moved here and has decided he is in need of binoculars will find himself losing faith in those fish traps, since for two weeks they are not moved once, and furthermore the poles are of unequal length, and in a strangely regular relationship with one another, and located too close to the central waterway. What is that thing?\u201d<br>\u2014 U.J. \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d (1979)<br>\n\n\n\n <\/h5><br>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A56%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d60c3c50e9a05c2d8c59bf06289e4c14169dbd09e3de3635b78ecdd84cad7ea8\/DSCN0054.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88702817\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8bb6f54b6aedd67ccae3a399b89bfe04e72ebb07bd1ba894c4fe3cdec8f8dfa7\/DSCN0261.jpg\" data-mid=\"88702814\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5><br>\n\u201cOur one sight worth seeing\u201d\n<br>\n\u201cEither we\u2019ll go down wet, or we\u2019ll go up in a fireball\u201d<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><\/div><\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A57%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1688\" height=\"826\" width_o=\"1688\" height_o=\"826\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/23909e599fb25be5cf587ecf6f6872b175628cdf143a35845d57c85957bc868e\/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.02.55.png\" data-mid=\"92464335\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1366\" height=\"902\" width_o=\"1366\" height_o=\"902\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1c37380b62f21f4afd01370681caf5f7d68d385431a3e2958a780440a23f7edb\/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.03.24.png\" data-mid=\"92464336\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1274\" height=\"944\" width_o=\"1274\" height_o=\"944\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/59e1e60a8b822baf4a418d69ede53009ec8f914cceba0412709080b942b25282\/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.04.12.png\" data-mid=\"92464337\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br>\n<br>\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490859325?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 338px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h5>The Explosion<\/h5><\/div><br><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5>\u201cAn explosion of this mixture will be among the largest in human memory, if you leave aside the nuclear ones. If you take the <i>Richard Montgomery <\/i>as the centre of a circle with a radius of two miles, the first land to be hit will be the northwest corner of the island, with the town and port of Sheerness. The older buildings and unreinforced walls will collapse, and the gas and water pipes will shatter. Within a radius of seven miles, broken glass and the collapse of any wobbly chimneys or loose roofs are likely. That circle includes half of the town of Sittingbourne, as well as the oil port and refinery complex on the Isle of Grain, west of Sheppey. The detonation may cause a fireball whose air pressure will fling heavy objects and debris more than a mile, perhaps into one of the supertankers with a hundred thous
46and tons of oil in its belly. (The <i>Richard Montgomery<\/i> lies near the extremely busy shipping channel of the Thames. A few miles farther north, Her Royal Highness\u2019s Ministry of Defence maintains and runs a naval artillery range in the ocean, whose detonations reach the windows of Sheerness like fist blows.) A simultaneous explosion of the whole cargo will cause a tidal wave to rush up the Medway and Thames rivers, destroying additional settlements near the banks. At low tide, the effects would be multiplied, due to there being less water to absorb the shock. The ultimate extent of the damage will be determined by the weather. Any heavy, low-lying cloud cover above the exploding cargo of bombs will bounce back ascending shock waves and the multiple ricochets will reach Canvey Island, ten miles upstream, where they will hit storage tanks with a holding capacity of almost forty thousand barrels of oil as well as chemical and methane gas containers. A chain reaction or domino effect could produce damage in the eastern suburbs of London, to a greater or lesser extent. It is unlikely that the House of Commons or Whitehall would be affected.\u201d<br>\n\u2014 UJ \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><\/div><\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A58%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5ea713e2c272c508d97da3d61931a05c45383bd2146f1f9b4cc3a12887036b4e\/4BA85103-CBED-4D3D-89EA-8B7D15E9F3E2_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299143\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c9790ecb4b6462e2e41b2a1b10417ff1f1b4c6ff5701a2252ec090936a2c75f4\/FD4630BC-59CD-43A8-9AF4-87990C8EFDAB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299060\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9fb52781189b058f5826f7427b546c819dae3bc909ce3a967bf20102800034da\/BA6575F9-D3EE-4ACC-84EE-4D4F5D81EFB8_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695638\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/009025d82e5074f97958ac8b95d4d9f1fa85a3ee7924641fc7a5d83260ba96ea\/05EA9976-3407-4F48-A592-1EDA0E7171F7_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695627\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<br>\n<br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h6>The Cap Arcona<\/h6><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><h5><\/h5><\/div><br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/04aaf74767828b6ddab4ef8e78376597b12a0361bebbbc8b0dfe5619b64f698f\/DSCN0533-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88728380\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n <div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A59%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5c06aff3618e06a64d0aaecb20877778c34d966db26c34e80c2b9fda224e67f2\/A004C307_171130SV_CANON-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88870034\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8d6b0bdc05b45182a74c20f34c5cc0f6e84afa23c831012ad922b9df66faad0a\/A004C319_171130LK_CANON-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88793819\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2be80adb189f0d05af9dabfe0d477e3d1d3d9e110df418db08c7a7c22969e11a\/DSCN0586.JPG\" data-mid=\"88594992\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a92decfefb97610fbc93a00284e408b77b7cc07f87c5cf36f82e6d38e83b9003\/5E2BEEC8-5CEE-4CB4-B4FD-7A262ED23302_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695786\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d90c649b7958536e69a72551473ca11cbc0c4dc82c89fc9182435d08e023b7ce\/BB1B207B-6A95-4AC3-836E-6C760F01FE62_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88728396\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480034253?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5><br>\nMany other such maritime explosions have been brought to mind by people trying to come to terms with the devastation threatening the Thames estuary from the SS Richard Montgomery. Local examples included the battleship HMS Bulwark, which exploded when moored off Sheerness on 26 November 1914, disappearing in a few seconds, with a loss of 741 men; and also the minelaying liner HMS Princess Irene, which went up killing 352, many of them local dockyard workers, in another disaster six months later. As will be known to readers of <i>Anniversaries III<\/i>, the exploding ships at the back of Johnson\u2019s mind as he looked out on the masts of the&nbsp;<i>Richard Montgomery, <\/i>included one that took its name from the northernmost point of the Baltic island of R\u00fcgen. &nbsp;<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><\/div><\/div><br><img width=\"715\" height=\"556\" width_o=\"715\" height_o=\"556\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/857c6d468c4141cce740fb02768513b3d5e0972a150603f122359aa1e5ef67ce\/gm_cap_arcona_art_01.jpg\" data-mid=\"92464332\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy 1927, the chalky headland and lighthouse called Cap Arkona had given rise to an ocean-going liner: built and launched that year for the Hamburg-South American Line\u201d, the SS Cap Arcona was a \u201cfloating palace\u201d that became famous as the fastest most luxuri
46ous ship on the route for Latin America. Requisitioned during the Second World War, it was used as a barrack at the Baltic port of Gotenhafen, now restored to Poland as Gdynia. By the last days of the war in 1945, its engines had been burnt out during three desperate voyages shipping Germans west from the Russian advance, and it was moored in Neustadt Bay, not far from L\u00fcbeck. As Allied forces approached from the West, prisoners from various abandoned concentration camps were crammed aboard the Cap Arcona and other ships including a cargo vessel named the SS Thielbeck, and left to whatever dire fate awaited them.<\/h5><\/div><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5><br>\nAs Johnson writes, \u201cFreedom came across the bright sunny bay on May 3 in the shape of a squadron of British bombers.\u201d Actually Typhoon fighter bombers from four squadrons were involved in the operation. They used rockets to sink the Cap Arcona and Thielbeck, along with several other undefended ships, and then came back to&nbsp;machine gun survivors<br>\n<br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A60%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1834\" height=\"1288\" width_o=\"1834\" height_o=\"1288\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/45207ba34be6b27a34d324a36c310031f9fcdb04b1ed10c63eae2606c63257f6\/IMG_1953-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"92938292\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SS. Cap Arcona, 1948\" data-caption=\"SS. Cap Arcona, 1948\"\/>\n<\/div><br>\n in the water. Those who survived that second assault, faced the prospect of being murdered by SS and other killers if they made it onto beaches at Timmendorfer, Priwall and Travemunde.. Between seven and eight thousand people of thirty differtent nationalities are said to have died. Corpses would turn up on scattered beaches for decades to come. Long before Remembrance Day was drafted into the service of Brexit, survivors had noted \u2014 with various degrees of anger and dismay \u2014 that the Cap Arcona disaster has not been allowed to disturb British commemoration of the Second World War.<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A61%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490857169?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Timmendorfer Strand\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A62%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490858244?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Houses next to the old cemetery, Kl\u00fctz, Mecklenburg\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A63%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490857802?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Memomrial to 16 identified victims of the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><br><div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A64%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f05cc810da7a082a0f26226a1b12f19b126bf8a32e282dc24e6ba6ecbfd4b872\/CE6FEE93-0CD0-491E-B595-31DFE1A89CE7_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489696\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The old cemetery, Kl&uuml;tz\" data-caption=\"The old cemetery, Kl\u00fctz\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/623f383fabd4968bf3a20b6343ee55bffbecaa3081ed956b7a09771e96d6496c\/76EC92A6-4878-4208-B278-EE91FFDF17CF_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489690\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/dacf711a357d27726511cd931f95c733ca340546dd1fa931ae8abf77cadf538b\/C894DE84-57C7-42B7-B11E-A5D8CBF4EDE9_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489701\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/31f40dd8484fa6a14f259e6807b7d0e051ebbb3dc69f735967a6cc2f16ace71f\/84B597D4-CAAC-4244-BB79-84994DBEF23B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489703\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1c4b299a9050c6cdab68425e98c1331f0ad0e34920742165c76fbf5ece7a348f\/410943C7-D034-4127-A7BF-3A309B5E4933_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489705\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br><br>\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sheerness Wall<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h6><\/div><br><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5>Johnson knew the Berlin version well, but his last months were plagued by the construction of a very different wall directly across the road from his window.<br><br><\/h5><div style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490867831?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 338px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><h5>\n<\/h5><h5>\n<br>\n\u201cI have, no doubt, let fall a word or two about the inexorable pollution and impoverishment of the city of Sheerness. Now I am obliged to add the fact, impossible to make up, that the offices of Southern Water intend to protect this grimy, insignificant locale by raising the flood wall even higher in front of this row of houses. Preceding this undertaking must necessarily come the removal of the existing embankment with all its garages, storerooms, and the concrete wall on top, that is, a to and fro of heavy machinery from excavators to the wading crane with its fat cement noggin. As a result, Southern Water has sent representatives of a sworn surveyor\u2019s firm into every house to determine and record its architectural condition in anticipation of the claims they expect from residents as a consequence of the demolition and reconstruction. In other words, we have to reckon with the chance of collapsing walls, likewise of cracking windows. I mention all this in no way expecting that it will make me feel better to complain (a hypothesis all too amply disproven), but merely to discourage you for a time, say two years or so, from asking how I\u2019m doing. You will know the answer already: Aggrieved.\u201d &nbsp;<br>\n\n\u2014 Uwe Johnson, letter to Burgel Zeeh, 26 August 1982<br>\n<br>\n\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A65%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/18442e9fca4825ee005639d8f0b3a3754f45e26b9af6361f6ce15a4c8fbccc0e\/3A949764-5950-4A2C-B13F-39EF2D8C6548_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92477783\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><br>\nBuilt by Southern Water along the full length of Marine Parade in 1983-4, Sheerness\u2019 new Sea Defence Wall was higher than 
46its oredecessor, but it was not build without some aesthetic effort. The engineers recognised the difficulty of integrating a high concrete rampart with the 19th century buildings that would be facing it from across the street. They consequently hired the architectural firm of Garnham Wright Associates, to design a \u201crusticated\u201d surface that might help their colossal barrier settle into the increasingly flood-prone town.<br>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><\/div><img width=\"1270\" height=\"1800\" width_o=\"1270\" height_o=\"1800\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9c7cde4eb645da20a587b5ccaed8f2d9fd0d1beccfe7df0db6a4af3cd6241054\/Screenshot-2020-12-17-at-16.41.27.png\" data-mid=\"92469870\" border=\"0\" \/><br><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5><br>\nThe trade journal <i>Cement and Concrete Quarterly<\/i> celebrated Garnham Wright\u2019s design, commending the playfulness with which the architect proposed a seaside form of English pop art. Johnson, however, hated it. A few months before he died, in February 1984, he told his artist neighbour, Martin Aynscomb Harris, that the still unfinished \u201crusticated\u201d and graffiti-resisting rampart reminded him of the works of Hitler\u2019s preferred architect, Albert Speer.<br>\n<br>\n<div class=\"image-gallery\" data-gallery=\"%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A66%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D\">\n<img width=\"1722\" height=\"952\" width_o=\"1722\" height_o=\"952\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7397ce275a223be0416bc7d70d854071517ada9e46287a4cc592af8f49f7f218\/Screenshot-2020-12-17-at-18.18.31.png\" data-mid=\"92478281\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1716\" height=\"952\" width_o=\"1716\" height_o=\"952\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2b1ea90a92c9fa6e14d47e2236a30a07b20c1f34d88f352f6bc76fdd37fd7694\/Screenshot-2020-12-17-at-18.18.12.png\" data-mid=\"92478314\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/div><\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<\/div><\/div><br>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding:52.73% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490868458?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\" class=\"\"><h5>Vehicle passing shutters in the room that was once Johnson\u2019s basement office<\/h5><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n\n\n\n\n<br><\/div><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><h5><\/h5><\/div><\/div><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br><div grid-row=\"\" grid-pad=\"0\" grid-gutter=\"0\">\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"10\" grid-pad=\"0\"><h2><a href=\"The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again\" rel=\"history\">More about the project<\/a> \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<br>\n<a href=\"The-Book\" rel=\"history\">More about the book<\/a> \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h3><a href=\"The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again\" rel=\"history\">The Sea View<br>Has Me Again:<br>Uwe Johnson <br>in Sheerness<\/a><\/h3><\/div>\n\t<div grid-col=\"1\" grid-pad=\"0\"><\/div>\n<\/div><br>\n<br><img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d891f30026c5deea314cf8f2e619ecaef71bf8b5b3eab842dbc01403dd18ed71\/IMG_0809.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099515\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Northeast corner of Georgian dockyard wall\" data-caption=\"Northeast corner of Georgian dockyard wall\"\/>","content_no_html":"\n\t\n\t\u201cThe most involving and originally-conceived social history of modern England to have appeared in decades\u201d (Patrick McGuinness).\nMore about the project&nbsp;\ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e\nMore about the book&nbsp;\ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0eShona Illingworth\u2019s Sound Work for Estuary Festival 2021\ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e\n\nAnother&nbsp;German in Sheerness?\n England\u2019s Last Acceptable Asylum Seeker? The Legend of the Piano Man&nbsp; \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tThe Sea ViewHas Me Again:Uwe Johnson in Sheerness\nWith filmlets by Shona Illingworth, who joined the investigation in 2017,&nbsp;\nand translations from Uwe Johnson\u2019s German by Damion Searls.\n[Some of the images are arranged as click-through galleries, including the first one below]\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t \n\t\n\n{image 64 caption=\"Ahrenshoop, Fischland\"}\n{image 197 caption=\"Prora, R\u00fcgen\"}\n{image 331 caption=\"Prora, R\u00fcgen\"}\n{image 100 caption=\"Rostock\"}\n{image 200 caption=\"Priwall\"}\n{image 209 caption=\"Timmendorfer Strand\"}\n{image 211 caption=\"Riverside Park, New York\"}\n{image 113 caption=\"Staten Island, New York\"}\n{image 51 caption=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson\u2019s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\"}\n{image 196 caption=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson\u2019s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\"}\n\n\n\n\n\t\nEast from Prora\n\n\n\t\n\n\nSouth from Zingst\n\n\nA Life Beside Rivers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\u201cIt would be fair to say that I have a thing for rivers. It\u2019s true, I grew up on the Peene in Anklam, the Nebel flows through G\u00fcstrow, I have traveled to and in Rostock on the Warnow, Leipzig presented me with the Pleisse and the Elster, Manhattan is surrounded by the Hudson and East and North Rivers, I also recall a Hackensack River, and for the past three years I have had on offer outside my window the River Thames where it turns into the North Sea\u201d.\u2014 Uwe Johnson, \u201cAbout Myself\u201d 1977\n\n\t \n\t\n{image 505 scale=\"100\"}\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n{image 57 scale=\"100\" no-zoom=\"true\" caption=\"Uwe Johnson, 1 March 1973 (Alamy)\"}\n&nbsp;\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\nThe story of a great East German novelist, and the things he thought and saw during the nine years he lived as a voluntary castaway on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\tIsle of Sheppey cemetery,Halfway\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\u201cHe was a kind man often misunderstood because of his abrupt manner. He had no time for idle conversation or banalities. He sparred with words. He was a verbal heavyweight, an intellectual whose politics were very much to the left.\u201d\u2014 Martin Aynscomb Harris (artist and Johnson\u2019s neighbour in Sheerness), March 1984.\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\u201cNow it\u2019s quiet, the asphalt mirror of Riverside Drive shows us the treetops in their close friendship with the sky.\u201d\u2014 Uwe Johnson, after a storm in New York City, Anniversaries IV\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\tThe Writer Who Chose a New Name\n\nTowards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in \nthe small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent Evening Post. \u201cCharles\u201d was the name he offered to his new acquaintances, and he didn\u2019t encourage curiosity about his past or the circumstances that had brought him to their town.\n\n\n\n\n\n{image 221 scale=\"65\"}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\tThe novelist Uwe Johnson was born in 1934 in\nCammin, Pomerania, and lived his first ten years with his parents and sister in\nAnklam, where his father, a trained agriculturalist, worked as supervisor of a dairy. In\n1944, he was sent inland to board at a German Home School run by the SS in\nKosten (now Koscian and in Poland). \n{image 353 caption=\"Amidon Remy, Postcard of the German Empire, c. 1910\"}\n\n\n{image 407 caption=\"Shell, road map of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, 1930s.\"}\n\nAs the Red Army advanced from the\nEast in 1945, Johnson and his family joined the chaotic flight west, finding\nrefuge in the small estate village of Recknitz, in Mecklenburgh, \n{image 357 caption=\"Recknitz\"}\n{image 358}\n{image 359}\n{image 360}\n{image 360}\n{image 361}\n{image 362}\n{image 363}\n{image 364}\n{image 363}\n{image 365}\n{image 371}\n{image 370}\n{image 366}\n{image 367}\n{image 368}\n{image 369}\n{image 372 caption=\"Recknitz\"}\n{image 373}\nwhere they stayed with Johnson\u2019s paternal\naunt and brother-in-law at the smithy. The father was incarcerated by the\nRussians shortly afterwards, and never seen again (he was declared dead a few\nyears later). From Recknitz, the family then moved to the nearby town of G\u00fcstrow&nbsp;\n\n{image 380 caption=\"G\u00fcstrow\"}\n{image 381}\n{image 382}\n{image 374}\n{image 383}\n{image 384}\n{image 385}\n{image 387}\n{image 388}\n{image 376}\nwhere Johnson attended high school\nat the John Brinckman Gymnasium.\n\n{image 377 caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"}\n{image 378 caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"}\n{image 379 caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"}\nIn 1952 he went to the University at the Baltic port and city of Rostock,&nbsp;\n\n{image 355 caption=\"Rostock University\"}\nwhere he studied German language and\nliterature for two years before being barred from continuing after speaking out in\ndefence of the rights of increasingly persecuted Christian students. In\n1954-6, he continued his education at Karl-Marx-University in Leipzig, where he\nstudied under Hans Mayer, an independent Marxist literary scholar, who had\nreturned to East Germany from the west in the first years of the new state but was already\nfalling out with the authorities. He rejected their claims about\nsocialist realism and&nbsp;insisting, against official decree, that his\nstudents should study the works of modern western writers. They read&nbsp; Joyce,\nSartre and also William Faulkner, whose southern novels were to become a major\ninfluence on Johnson, who knew what it was for a nation to live with a \u201ctainted past\u201d. \n\nIn 1959, Johnson moved to the West, later\nclaiming that he did so for \u201creasons of hygiene\u201d but not as a refugee who might\nbe expected to denounce the GDR and all it stood for as he picked up\nsubsidies and other advantages available to those who accepted that\nform of assimilation. He published three novels over the followng six\nyears: Speculations About Jakob (1959), The Third Book About\nAchim (1961), andTwo Views (1965). These\n\t bought him a prodigious\nreputation as the so called \u201cwriter (dichter) of the divided Germany\u201d, a clich\u00e9 he greatly\ndisliked. He also came under sometimes vitriolic attack from zealots on both\nsides of the political spectrum.\n\nJohnson addressed these difficulties by travelling out from hemmed-in West Berlin. He spent a\nyear on a West German government stipend in Rome&nbsp; in 1962, and later made\nvarious trips to America: first in 1961, again in 1965, and then for a longer\nperiod of residence in New York City from 1966-8. The latter stay was\nmade possible by the publisher Helen Wolff, who employed him to prepare a\ntextbook of post-war German literature (from both 
46sides of the. division) aimed\nat American high school students. \n\nJohnson had been feted as the writer who had done more than any other to create\na kind of novel capable of articulating the division of Germany into two states with\none terrible and guilty past. Conceived\nand started during the two years, 1966-1968, during which he lived in New York\nCity, the final multi-volume novel that Johnson came to Sheerness in order to complete,\nwent beyond Germany to engage a world divided by the Cold War. Each chapter of Anniversaries: from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl would take a day in the year extending from 21 August 1967 to 20 August\n1968, and it would be written as experienced by Gesine Cresspahl and her ten-year\nold daughter Marie in New York City. Structured as a conversation between\nthe two, the narrative would proceed through the events of that\nmomentous year: the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the\nassassination of Kennedy etc. It would also explore the longer historical\nexperience of the Cresspahl family as it\u2019s generations had lived through the\ntraumas and crimes of the twentieth century in Mecklenburg and elsewhere.&nbsp; \n\n\n{image 227 caption=\"UJ at Michael Hamburger\u2019s house, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 1966 (photo: R. Hamburger)\"}\n{image 292 caption=\"Literaturhaous Uwe Johnson, Kl\u00fctz, Mecklenburg\"}\n\n\nHaving started work on this massive novel in\nNew York City, Johnson continued after his return to Berlin. Suhrkamp published\nthe first volume in 1970, the second in 1971 and the third in 1974. It was\nin order to complete the fourth and final volume that Johnson then decided\nto remove himself, his wife and their daughter from an increasingly disruptive&nbsp; life in West Berlin and resettle in England. His migration\nwas made possible by the Swiss writer\nMax Frisch, who offered to lend Johnson the money he would need to buy a house in England where he could concentrate on his work. Having chosen a property on the Isle of Sheppey, he took care to\nensure that his neighbours knew very little about him. He would remain in\nSheerness for nearly a decade, moving into 26 Marine Parade with his wife and\ndaughter towards the end of 1974 and remaining there until his death, aged 49,\nin February 1984. &nbsp;\n\n\n\n\t\n\n{image 339 caption=\"UJ overlooking the Inselsee, G\u00fcstrow, 1953 (photo: Heinz Lehmbecker)\"}\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 480 caption=\"Meadow and woods near Rosenhagen, Mecklenburgh, 31 May 2016 (a landscape of the kind Johnson would keep stacked up in the &quot;cellar of memories&quot; that was his basement office in Sheerness)\"}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t{image 503 caption=\"Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough\"}Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tTwo Memorials to the Dead\n of the Great War&nbsp;\n(1914-18)\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n{image 457 caption=\"Ernst Barlach, Hovering Angel, G\u00fcstrow Cathedral\"}\nBarlach\u2019s non-militaristic memorial was commissioned in 1926 and hangs in G\u00fcstrow Cathedral. Johnson wrote a dissertation on Barlach \u2014&nbsp;who lived in G\u00fcstrow and was among the first artists to be declared \u201cdegenerate\u201d by the Nazis \u2014 while studying in Leipzig, in the fifties.&nbsp; He had a cast of Barlach\u2019s carving of two \u201cSleeping Vagabonds\u201d in his house at Sheerness.\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n{image 354}\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\tSheerness\u2019s memorial to serving men and civilian dockyard workers lost in the Great War, as photographed on 26 July 2013. The picture at the base shows Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered by Islamists at Woolwich seven weeks earlier. Johnson used this monument as an orientation point for visitors making their way to his house from the railway station opposite.\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tMan, Reef or \u201cthe Brazen Edge \nof Our Crazy World\u201d?\n\t\n\n\n\t\n{image 337 caption=\"Wieland F\u00f6rster, portrait stele of Uwe Johnson, &lt;br&gt;outside John Brinkman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow, 2006\"}\n\n\t\n{image 344 caption=\"Easter Island Man (Whelan\u2019s Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness)\"}\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\nAs friends and acquaintances in Germany already knew, Johnson could be a challenging man: volatile and 
46yet blunt too, and sometimes completely inaccessible. The initially East German writer and politician, Gerhard Zwerenz, described him as \u201ca statue of lost cultures\u201d like the \u201cinscrutable monoliths\u201d of Easter Island. After visiting the Johnsons shortly after their arrival in Sheerness, Gunter Kunert looked back to glimpse him waving from the doorstep: a teetering \u201ccolossus\u201d who might at any moment fall and break over his own wife and daughter. Though a unique example of the type, \u201cCharles\u201d\n was by no means the first brazened-off twentieth century man to take refuge on the Isle of Sheppey.\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tThe Bush of Memory\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\nFischland, Staten Island, Isle of Sheppey?\n\n\t\n\t\n\nJohnson arrived in England from West Berlin, but he came with memories of other places too:&nbsp; the flat Baltic landscapes of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, to be sure, but also New York \u2014 a city that stood at the centre of Anniversaries, the four-volume novel he would eventually complete in England. &nbsp;While living on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side&nbsp; in 1968, Johnson had written and read the text for \u201dSummer in the City\u201d, a film&nbsp; by the German-born American director Christian Blackwood for West German television.\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t{image 330 scale=\"65\" caption=\"Missing caption\"}\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tBlackwood\u2019s original idea was to show Johnson talking with people as he led the camera around the Upper West Side he had come to know while living in an apartment building on Riverside Drive. He eventually decided against appearing in the film, instead providing Blackwood with recommended locations and writing the text he then read as the film\u2019s commentary.&nbsp; In this he&nbsp; praises the activism and the diversity of the \u201cslum\u201d he would, in Anniveraries,&nbsp; liken to a mobile jellyfish slithering about among the brownstones. He remains silent when Blackwood takes his camera into the transvestite world.\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\tThe Island\n\n{image 345 caption=\"The Isle of Sheppey from Bellevue Road, Whitstable\"}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\u201cI am reliably informed about a place where it seems to be no coincidence that a cul-de-sac in this country is not called that, or a dead-end street, but a blind alley. That would already be something\u201d \n\u2014 UJ, letter to Max Frisch, 4 August 1974\n\u201cThe chalky, swampy fields on the island are really not at all Garden of England (if indeed any tourist can stand this smug catchphrase any longer than from Dover to Canterbury)\u201d\n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 60 caption=\"\u201cEverything is perfect - even the Road is passable - and as hard as rock.\u201d \u201cJohnson\u201d to Mrs Miller Valentine\u2019s postcard c. 1955\"}\n{image 72}\n{image 59 caption=\"\u201cI\u2019m enjoying myself trying to put the garden to rights as well as mixing cement for Harry. It\u2019s a lark.\u201d Hankie to Milly, Valentine\u2019s postcard, c. 1965\"}\n{image 62}\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\tNot always a lark:cement on Sheppey\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\nThe Isle of Sheppey is a small,\nlow-lying and watery place of some thirty-six\nsquare miles in extent. It lies on the eastern shore of\nthe&nbsp; Medway, where this no longer naval river flows into the&nbsp; outer\nreaches of the Thames Estuary. On its western side, it emerges from\nthe water, in a marshy and noncommittal kind of way, not far\nfrom a bone-strewn mudbank called \u201cDead Man\u2019s Island\u201d. To\nthe south, once you get past the landfill site at Ladies Hole\nPoint, the island is dominated by marshes and separated from the\nmainland by a tidal strait known as the Swale. The\nnorthern shore is formed by a ridge of London Clay, which&nbsp; emerges near Sheerness-on-Sea and rises as it proceeds towards the eastern shore of the island, reach\u00a7ing its highest point\nof some seventy-six metres above sea level at Minster, a village\nat the early Christian site where St Sexburga,&nbsp; widow of the Anglo-Saxon&nbsp; King Eorcenberht of Kent, established a convent in 664 AD.\n\n\nSuch basic facts\nmust be allowed, and yet the \u201cIsle\nof Sheep\u201d, as Sheppey\u2019s originally Saxon name \u201cSceapig\u201d\ndescribes it, remains variously suggestive in\nits separation from the mainland.Not just an island, it is also a strange oscillation, a place where paradise keeps collapsing into the bleakest kind of slum.  &nbsp;\n\n{image 34 scale=\"72\"}\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n{image 49 scale=\"100\" caption=\"The Ship on Shore, Sheerness  \u201cHaving bad weather here,\u201d postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913.\"}\n\t\n\tThe Ship on Shore, Sheerness\n \u201cHaving bad weather here,\u201d postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913. This pub grotto, was assembled from a salvaged ship, said&nbsp; to have run aground loaded with barrels that turned out, disappointingly for some,&nbsp; to be filled with Portland cement.\n\n{image 348 caption=\"The Bethel Chaoel, Blue Town, now 0art of Andre Whelan's &quot;
46gnome factory&quot; (aka&quot; Whelan's Garden Ornaments)\"}\n{image 127 scale=\"100\"}{image 128 scale=\"100\"}Shipwright preacher William Shrubsole\u2019s Bethel Chapel, Blue Town, Sheerness, now part of Whelan\u2019s Garden Ornaments (aka \u201cthe gnome factory\u201d)\n\n\n{image 310 scale=\"100\"} Definitely Not Berlin.\n \u201cRusticated\u201d sea wall, designed by Garnham Wright Associates&nbsp; and built along Marine Parade in 1983-4.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n{image 171 scale=\"100\" caption=\"HMGov, Sheppey Prison Cluster, Eastchurch\"}\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\u201cCall it England or call it Sheppey, the island looks tiny on conventional maps: little more than a mudbank about eight miles across at its broadest point, and eleven in length. Those, however, are not the only dimensions that matter. While writing this book, I have learned to sympathise with the man from Gillingham, eight or so miles upstream along the Medway, who decided \u2014 a full six years before the Brexit referendum of 2016 \u2014 to buy himself a small motorboat via the internet and put to sea with the aim of navigating his way around Great Britain...\n\nAfter studying a road atlas, he concluded that he only had to keep the land on his right-hand side in order to end the first stretch of his journey at Southampton. Having proceeded on this assumption for a day and a half, he ran out of fuel and found nhimself stuck in the mud near some tidal marshes. The lifeboat that came to rescue this slow voyager from his predicament guided him to the quayside at Queenborough where an officer of the coastguard service briskly informed him that he had all the time been circling the Isle of Sheppey: \u2018He had no idea of the magnitude of the journey he was undertaking\u201d\u2019\nSince this unidentified Englishman \u2014 he was, as I recall, rudely dismissed as a \u201cdopey sailor\u201d by the island\u2019s newspaper \u2014 insisted on resuming his journey once refuelled, we may assume that he too had by then seen enough to know not just that small can be large, but also that life isn\u2019t necessarily at its richest when it is predictable or easy.\u201d (Sea View, pp, 8-9)\n\n\n\nSheppey,&nbsp; more or less West to East\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n{image 131 caption=\"Looking West across Dead Man's Island and the Medway from Rushenden Hill   \"}\n{image 80 caption=\"Towards Ladies Hole Point\"}\n{image 123 caption=\"Queenborough, from the (non-existent) path to  Ladies Hole Point\"}\n{image 81 caption=\"South of Queenborough\"}\n{image 103 caption=\"The Sheppey Crossing, 2016\"}\n{image 89 caption=\"King\u2019s Hill Farm, Elmley Marshes\"}\n{image 84 caption=\"Windblown debris, on fence surrounding the former Admiralty dockyard, Sheerness (summer)\"}\n{image 116 caption=\"Northeast corner of Sir John Rennie's Georgian dockyard wall, Sheerness\"}\n{image 115 caption=\"Martello towers, Sheerness\"}\n{image 241 caption=\"Weathered lion, inside dockyard\"}\n{image 93}\n{image 92 caption=\"19th century model of Admiralty Dockyard, Sheerness (in storage near Portsmouth)\"}\n{image 78 caption=\"Avenue leading from dockyard to Dock Church\"}\n{image 273 caption=\"Admiralty dockyard, now Peel Ports.\"}\n{image 97 caption=\"Same debris, same fence - in winter, three years later \"}\n{image 125 caption=\"Drain, Blue Town, Sheerness. Drains were life-savers in mid-19th century Sheerness. Sea View, 229-232 &amp; 250-258.\"}\n{image 90 caption=\"Footballers etc., Whelan's Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness\"}\n{image 309 caption=\"Diamond Jubilee decorations, the Albion, Blue Town High Street, 2012\"}\n{image 94 caption=\"The Crescent, Sheerness\"}\n{image 237 caption=\"Conservative Club, Broadway, Sheerness\"}\n{image 173 caption=\"Victoria Working Men\u2019s Club, Broadway, Sheerness, 1882\"}\n{image 74 caption=\"Across the estuary\"}\n{image 73 caption=\"Seafront residues, Marine Town, Sheerness\"}\n{image 82 caption=\"Neptune Terrace, Marine Town, Sheerness\"}\n{image 75 caption=\"Neptune Terrace, detail\"}\n{image 95 caption=\"Johnson's chosen street\"}\n{image 77 caption=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (before renovation)\"}\n{image 134 caption=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (after renovation)\"}\n{image 102 caption=\"Sheerness Ape, Marine Town\"}\n{image 291 caption=\"Figurehead (replica) of HMS Forte, sea defence wall, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\"}\n{image 101 caption=\"Barton\u2019s Point Coastal Park\"}\n{image 326 caption=\"Looking East towards Whitstable and Herne Bay from Warden Point\"}\n{image 491 caption=\"Warden Manor, home to TocH and later to the Transalpine Redemptorists, who had their Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary here (1988-1994)\"}\n{image 83 caption=\"Notices from a freeborn Englishman, Warden\"}\n{image 120 caption=\"\u201cManaged retreat\u201d at Warden Springs Caravan Park\"}\n{image 117 caption=\"End of the road once known as &quot;Mud Row&quot; at Warden Point\"}\n{image 118 caption=\"&quot;Encroachments of the sea&quot;: Warden Point\"}\n{image 119 caption=\"End of the road at Warden Point\"}\n{image 162 caption=\"Warden, at Sheppey's East End\"}\n{image 163 caption=\"Leysdown. At the beginning of the 20th century, a plotland developer urged customers to imagine a fine new promenade here\"}\n{image 85 caption=\"&quot;Bungalettes&quot; at Shellbeach\"}\n{image 86 caption=\"Debris, Shellbeach\"}\n{image 87 caption=\"Brent Geese over Shellness\"}\n{image 164 caption=\"Shellness, former control tower\"}\n{image 91}\n{image 88 caption=\"Shellness\"}\n{image 126 caption=\"Shellness, looking north from Shellness Point\"}\n\u201cHis address was Sheppey\u201d{image 493}\n\n\n\n\n\n\tAnopheles maculipennis mosquito, photographed on a bedroom wall in Kent, 1918.&nbsp; this marsh-dwelling mosquito was a carrier of indigenous malaria, known as \u201cmarsh fever\u201d and \u201cague\u201d before it was scientifically identified by Sir Ronald Ross in India ain 1897.&nbsp; &nbsp;The infestations on Sheppey were particularly bad.&nbsp; At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Sheerness was described as \u201cthe most fever-ridden place in the whole of England.\u201d In the mid-nineteenth century, there was much concern about the impact of this pestilence on the fighting strength of the navy&nbsp; at Sheerness (hence the towen\u2019s heroic preoccupation with drainage at this time). The problem had long kept wealthy landowners and farmers from living on the island (many of the marshlands were run by \u201clookers\u201d who had no choice but to lieve below the \u201ccontour of death\u201d).&nbsp; I The affliction also recurred in the. twentieth century - not least after the First EWorld War, when the island\u2019s mosquitoes were reinfected by soldiers returning from overseas (Sea View, 205-7)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;\n\n\n\t \n\n\u201cIsland\u201d \u2014 the Requiem\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tIn 1973\/4, a thoughtful man named Dave used to come to 5 St Radigund Street, Canterbury, where I was then living as a student. He was a friend of another resident, the singer Barbara Gaskin, and we sometimes referred to him as \u201cZiggy\u201d in honour of the stardust trailing behind him. Dave, was Dave Sinclair, former keyboardist with Matching Mole and Caravan, whose album&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t{image 419}\n\u201cIn the Land of Grey and Pink\u201d (1971) had taken its title from sunsets over the Isle of Sheppey. Band members had watched these fractal explosions of colour from the marshland village of Graveney, where they\u2019d foun
46d a hall in which to rehearse.&nbsp;\n\t\n{image 417 caption=\"Caravan, In the Land of Grey and Pink, 1971\"}\n\t\n\tDave spent many years, including those in which the memory of \u201cprog rock\u201d was blasted into the past by the later punk sensibility, running a piano restoration business in Herne Bay. He moved to Japan in 2005 where he now lives on Yuge island, Kamijima.&nbsp; Perhaps some fleeting memory of that view over Sheppey informs his more recent song &nbsp;\u201cIsland\u201d (2011), a simple elegy to the hopes of a lost era, here sung by Barbara Gaskin.&nbsp; Johnson, of course, knew nothing of this. Yet he was curious and, when living in America in the Sixties, he once asked the young Richard Hamburger to copy him a cassette of his favourite music.\n\n\n\n \n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tIsland Birds\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\nBrent geese at Shellbeach\nA female flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum) tried its luck on the&nbsp; Sheppey marshes in the summer of 1873. The erratic visitor was shot by a labourer named Heathfield, who tracked it down to Sharfleet Creek on the Swale. Sheppey\u2019s firebird was claimed as a first for the country. As such, it was eviscerated and stuffed by a Mr. George Young of Sittingbourne on the mainland, and sold to a man named Dene from further inland at Tonbridge. The new owner was to receive a disappointing lesson from the superintendent of London Zoo, who revealed that the unfortunate creature was actually an escapee from his collection at Regent\u2019s Park.\n\n\n{image 206 scale=\"100\" caption=\"European Flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum)\"}\n\n\t\n{image 416}\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\u201cHe\nwalked to the door and threw it open. The sea, the sea. Grey and brown. It\nwould rain soon. It was bleak out, bleaker, if possible, than it had ever\nseemed before. What a view. Luke grimaced. What a bloody landscape!\u201d\u2014 Nicola Barker, Wide\nOpen (1998) \n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\tSheppey: \u201cRural slum\u201d and\/or \u201cMoral Utopia\u201d?\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\nJohnson\u2019s first German visitors were by no means impressed by the remote, industrial, working class island on which he had chosen to live. &nbsp;\u201cAs [Siegfried] Kunert recorded in his An English Daybook the seats inside British Rail\u2019s shabby conveyance were a poor advertisement for the attractions of \u201cSheerness-on-Sea.\u201d Their headrests were \u2018enormously patinated\u2019&nbsp; \u2014 so much so that one was stuck with white tufts of hair as if an old man had struggled to \u2018tear himself from his seat on arrival.\u2019\u201d(Sea View, p. 195)\u201cEvery time I arrived and left, my feeling was the same: how can one live here, and how can one write here, in this run-down town, with little or no possibility of preserving what makes the outer life worth living?\u201d\n\u2014 Siegfried Unseld, Johnson\u2019s editor and publisher at Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (Sea View, p. 195)\nHelga Michie, the twin sister of the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger who had arrived in London on a Kindertransport in 1939, understood the situation differently:&nbsp;\u201cHe likes it there. It reminds him of home... It\u2019s the landscape \u2014 sea, sand, marsh.\u201d(Sea View, p. 197)For centuries, Sheerness had survived and sometimes prospered as a military town. It was created to meet the requirements both of the Admiralty dockyard, first laid out by Samuel Pepys and others&nbsp; in 1665, and of the associated army garrison installed next to it on the marshy point (the \u201cNess\u201d) overlooking the mouth of the Medway and the&nbsp; submerged sandbank that would become the naval anchorage known as the Nore. The people of the town that grew up around the dockyard had long feared their reliance on the Admiralty, and steps were also taken to establish the place as \u201cSheerness-on-Sea\u201d,&nbsp; a resort for visiting Londoners. As such, it would always struggle to match rivals like Margate, where the golden sands bore no disillusioning resemblance to shingle and&nbsp; excursionists disembarking from the steamer that had brought them from London&nbsp; didn\u2019t have to make their way through the disorderly military slum named Blue Town (\u201dWhitechapel-on-Sea\u201d) in order to get from the pier to the beach.Johnson knew about the poverty and deprivation on Sheppey, but he didn\u2019t at all mind the absence of the shinier trappings of western life - the rampant consumerism, the displays of opulence, the bourgeois habits of thought that had never made their way over the Kingsferry Bridge from the so-called \u201cGarden of England\u201d. A longastanding scourge of the hypocrisy of the liberal middle classes, he aligned himself with the island\u2019s unemployed and came to appreciate the&nbsp; not always law-abiding solidarity of the people as they got by despite the unhelpful attentions (or neglect) of the state.&nbsp; He told one East German friend that he had discovered a \u201cmoral utopia\u201d in this English backwater, where many of his friends saw only misery, abandonment and bleak deprivation.\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n{image 109 caption=\"Abraham Ortelius, map of Thomas More\u2019s Utopia, c. 1595\"}\n\n\n\t\n{image 352 caption=\"The Isle of Sheppey, from Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1797\"}\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Past\n\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 264 caption=\"\u201cBenevolence\u201d carnival at the Royal Hotel, Sheerness. photo: Robert Hider, circa 1890\"}\n\n{image 324 caption=\"Franz Heinrich L\u00f6sel, \u201c10 X 8 Photograph group of portion of Crew of H.M.S. \u201cVictoria\u201d taken on forecastle of said ship\u201d at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian &amp;nbsp;
46Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible man, who wouldn\u2019t even permiot lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Merditerranean, with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893\"}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFranz Heinrich L\u00f6sel, \u201c10 X 8 Photograph group of\nportion of Crew of H.M.S. \u201cVictoria\u201d taken on forecastle of said ship\u201d at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible commander, who wouldn\u2019t even permit lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893.\n\n\n\n\n{image 265}Shellbeach, August 1933.&nbsp; This photograph was taken after the 17 year old Jean Chesterton was killed by misdirected machine-gun fire from an RAF training plane, while rowing out with her sister (theirs is the boat nearest the sea) to recover a beach ball from the wind.\n\n\n{image 266 caption=\"Former Fireman Neville Wood fries an egg with the help of his assistant Francis Batsoni, Variety at Leysdown Holiday Camp, 1957\"}\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tMinster Abbey and its afterlife\n{image 496}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Fry once suggested that the people who lived in the past were really just \u201cus with different clothes on\u201d.&nbsp; Looking at this ancient Green Man in the Church of Mary and&nbsp; St Sexburga, Minster, we may doubt it ...&nbsp;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tSacked by Vikings and dissolved by Henry VIII but the church and gatehouse of St. Sexburga\u2019s abbey are&nbsp; still standing on the island\u2019s highest ground at&nbsp; Minster-on-Sea:\n\n\n\n{image 249}\n\t\n\n{image 256}\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n{image 501 caption=\"Minster Abbey from read bedroom of Uwe Johnson's house at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness\"} Minster Abbey, from top rear bedroom of Uwe Johnson\u2019s House at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness... \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n{image 456} \u201cI shall be glad when I get a job sooner or later\u201d. Postcard&nbsp; with \u201cBirdseye View of Minster\u201d, postmarked&nbsp; 3 June 1909.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tWomen\u2019s Suffrage: a modern&nbsp; cause lands at Minster,&nbsp; September 1909\n{image 498}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\u201cHere on a grassy triangle outside the churchyard, a group of about fifty villagers and visitors assembled on Wednesday 11th, to hear the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell [the American reformer, Alyse Pearsall Smith] speak on Women\u2019s Suffrage . . . It was, as far as I know, the first Women\u2019s Suffrage meeting ever held in Sheppey island, and no more appropriate spot could have been chosen for the occasion.&nbsp; Among the famous Saxon women of Kent, beginning with the Christian Queen Bertha, two of the most distirnguished belonged to Sheppey. Sexburga, queen and saint, to whom Minster Abbey Church is dedicated, was daughter to Annas, king of the East Anglians, wife to Ercombert, King of Kent, and mother to two succeeding Kings of Kent. She founded and ruled over a monastery for Benedictine nuns on the hill at Minster. In later life she became Abbess of Ely, and was succeeded in Minster by her daughter Princess Ermenilda, who in her turn became Abbes of Ely\u201d Kate Ralegh in&nbsp;Women\u2019s Franchise, 2 September 1909 (Sea View, pp. 174-80).{image 499}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tLong Lost Family: a Successful Week on the Isle of Sheppey, June 1938\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201cA\nWholesale Imposter.\u2014In\nthe beginning of last week, a man called upon Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, at the\npreventive station, Queenborough, representing himself as a relation; and was,\nin consequence, liberally entertained by them. On Wednesday, he discovered\nanother relation among the military in Sheerness garrison; and a subscription\nwas made for him among the soldiers, amounting to 7s. 6d.&nbsp; Afterwards, he found a cousin, a poor man, in\nBlue Town, with whom he resided a day. On the same night, about ten o\u2019clock, he\nfound another cousin, a poor man (Mr. Hayse), who was going to bed when he\narrived;
46 but upon the arrival of a cousin, they cooked a supper, and\nentertained him to the best of their ability; and afterwards gave up to him\ntheir own bed. On Saturday, he found a cousin Adams, with whom he partook a\ngreedy meal of nearly two pounds of meat, and a pot of porter, &amp;c. Here he\ncarried his deceptions as far as to kiss Mrs. Adams, who shed copious tears\nupon the occasion of the discovery of a relative. The same day, he found cousin\nCurry, with whom he partook of ham &amp;c., for tea, and obtained 2s 3d from\nMrs C., to pay the pier dues for his luggage; having nothing, as he said, but\ndoubloons by him, which he could not get changed. The same night, he gave a\nsecond visit to Queenborough, and found out cousin Morris; but obtained nothing\nfrom him. He appeared, wherever he went, to be quite at home, by looking into\ncupboards, and dealing out apples &amp;c. from them to the children. The\nimposter resided in Sheppey altogether a week; after which, he appears to have\nfound out the mother of a New South Wales convict, near Sittingbourne, from\nwhom he pretended to have brought a letter. He next introduced himself to the\nclerk of a brewery at Chatham, from whom he obtained 7 s. This is the last\nplace we heard of him. He is about 5ft. 6in. in height\u201460 years of age. He had\non a brown coat, grey trowsers and long waistcoat\u2014the whole considerably worse\nfor wear.\u201d&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  \u2014Kentish Mercury, 9 June 1838.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n \n\n\t\n\t&nbsp;\n\n\n\nA Bar Goes Under\nfrom West Berlin to East End Lane\n \n(an indication of method\nand a story\n that didn\u2019t make it into Chapter 13)\n\n\t\n\tWritten in 1965, Johnson\u2019s story \u201cA Bar Goes Under\u201d ( \u201cEine Kneipe geht verloren\u201d republished in&nbsp; Berliner Sachen, 1975) tracks the fate of a bar in West Berlin that was put at the service of student escape helpers smuggling people through the frontier from the East during the early years of the Berlin Wall. Johnson\u2019s bar finally goes out of business as various interests react to the idealistic young barkeeper\u2019s participation in this project: having embarked on what she thought would be a temporary job, she ends up being sued by her own relatives for destroying the family enterprise.&nbsp;\n\n\t\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n\t\n\t{image 481}\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\nBars have found different ways of \u201cgoing under\u201d on the Kentish island where Johnson made his English home. I got this watercolour from an eBay seller in Montana who had herself found it pasted into a volume of albumen photographs assembled somewhere in the British Isles during the 1880s. &nbsp;It shows The Royal Oak Inn, a remote hostelry that once stood above the soft and fossil-spewing London clay cliffs overlooking the North Sea from the island\u2019s \u201cEast End\u201d. Intrigued to find a picture of this secluded inn, which here seems to anticipate the atmosphere of James Meade Falkner\u2019s yet to be published smuggling novel Moonfleet, I started to look into its story. &nbsp;&nbsp; In mid-Victorian times, the Royal Oak was one of the more remote destinations available to visitors on the Isle of Sheppey. Search for it via the British Newspaper Archive, and it makes its earliest appearance on 7th June 1859, when it was offered for sale in the South Eastern Gazette.&nbsp; &nbsp;Described as \u201ca desirable inn\u201d situated in \u201cthe most beautiful part of the Isle of Sheppey\u201d, it was equipped with \u201cabout Three Acres of Land, consisting principally of Plantation of Fruit, Pleasure, and Garden Ground\u201d. &nbsp;Perched at the end of the world, the Royal Oak was, without question, a place of some romance. &nbsp;Known as the haunt of smugglers as well as of the more energetic and\/or secretive summer excursionists, it also played a significant role in the island\u2019s largely forgotten political history. \n\nOn Saturday 7 June 1873, the Sheerness Times and General Advertiser, informed its readers that&nbsp; 200 of the island\u2019s agricultural labourers had made their way to the Royal Oak from all parts of the island to attend a meeting the previous Saturday evening. The assembly, which was part of that decade\u2019s nation-wide \u201cRevolt of the Fields\u201d, had been called so that Mr. Harry Howard of the Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union could propose the creation of a Sheppey branch of this fast-growing friendly society. &nbsp;The union had been founded in Maidstone only a year previously and was under the leadership of Alfred Simmons, a journalist editor of the Kent Messenger, who once attributed his sympathy with the county\u2019s agricultural labourers to his own experience of growing up in poverty as one of five children of a mother widowed in her early thirties. \n\n{image 483 caption=\"&quot;I have had a jolly good time and am sorry it is finished&quot;. Postcard of avenue leading to the Royal Oak by Noah's Ark, Sheerness, sent 25 August 1908\"}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\nSuch was the turn-out at the Royal Oak that the Sheppey rally had to be held \u201cin the avenue adjacent to the little picturesque public-house\u201d. Having climbed onto a table, Howard apologised for the fact that he would also have to chair the meeting himself. &nbsp;He asked the assembled labourers to listen patiently to speakers, whether they were for or against the proposition. \u201cThe subject\u201d, which was of national importance and definitely \u201cnot confined to a hole-and-corner village,\u201d should be considered \u201cbeyond hooting down.\u201d&nbsp; Howard may still have been wearing the \u201cagricultural\u201d boots and leggings for which he had been mocked in the Maidstone Journal\u2019s sneering report of the union\u2019s recent fundraising meeting in Gravesend. &nbsp;Yet he knew how to present a reasoned case even while ridiculing the objections farming interests had tried to plant in their workers\u2019 minds. It was, Howard stated, the general saying in a village that when men joined the union they did so in order to strike. \u201cThere was not a greater fallacy than this,\u201d because a union \u201cwas merely a combination of men to benefit themselves, so that there could not be very much wrong with it.\u201d Unions used the strike only as last resort, and this one hoped to find other ways of saving its members from the answer that customarily awaited labourers who dared express any grievances. &nbsp;\u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, go!\u201d &nbsp;That was the reply the demanding, or just pleading, labourer could expect from his employer. &nbsp;And those who were forced to \u201cgo\u201d had no chance of getting employment from another farmer in the parish. &nbsp;So the aggrieved worker had to leave the area, knowing there would be plenty of other men to take up the work at starvation wages. &nbsp;Once the new organisation became \u201cgeneral\u201d, Howard promised, it would have the leverage to put an end to this misery. &nbsp;The Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union was, so Howard encouraged the more timorous onlookers to understand, one of the last unions to form: even the Church of England\u2019s curates had recently created such an association to save themselves from being \u201cground down to the lowest by the big wigs of that Church\u201d. After Howard\u2019s rousing speech, the meeting adjourned to the pub, where a Sheppey branch of the Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union was duly formed with a membership of 70 men. Two years later, its members were coming to terms with the island farmers\u2019 reaction to their unwelcome exercise in collective self-defence. &nbsp;
46In April 1875 one who knew better than to reveal his identity except as \u201ca farm labourer\u201d, wrote to the Sheerness Times to let readers know \u201chow those who are uniting to attain a reasonable day\u2019s pay are treated by the \u201cAmalgamated Club\u201d of the farmers of this island. \n\n&nbsp;On Sheppey as elsewhere in the county, the labourers&nbsp; had been \u201clocked out\u201d because they were demanding a working day of 10 hours. A young man who had been elected branch secretary of the Kent Agricultural Labourer\u2019s Union, was immediately discharged from a farm near \u201cCourt Tree\u201d and also dismissed by the church wardens from his long-established additional employment as \u201corgan blower\u201d at the church in the agricultural village of Eastchurch. &nbsp; Two years earlier, the &nbsp;union\u2019s founder and Honorary Secretary Alfred &nbsp;Simmons had told a meeting in Lamberhurst that the \u201cunmanly, unkind, unchristianlike\u201d behaviour of the farmers was \u201cunworthy of Englishmen.\u201d (Kentish Gazette, 17 June 1873, p. 3) &nbsp; This unnamed Sheppey labourer now repeated that charge, urging \u201cthose who deprecate the Unenglish proceedings of the farmers of Sheppey,\u201d to contribute their \u201cmite\u201d towards the welfare of those injured by the \u201clock out\u201d. He also noted that the branch lodge continued to hold its meetings at the Royal Oak in East End Lane.&nbsp; As the red bucket in the unknown watercolourist\u2019s picture may suggest, The Royal Oak was among the remote buildings on Sheppey\u2019s east coast that proved remarkably prone to fire. It was, however,&nbsp; a different threat that eventually put an end to the Royal Oak. &nbsp;On this coast, the idea of \u201cgoing under\u201d is all too literal \u2013 fields, houses, churches, coastguard stations, pillboxes have been doing it for centuries. &nbsp;The cliffs are of soft London clay, and it has been estimated that&nbsp; miles of land may have dissolved into the rising sea since Roman times. &nbsp; In \u201cvolcano land\u201d, as this unstable coast was dubbed by the Illustrated London News after a fall in January 1909,&nbsp; the end comes not as a crashing fall of rocks, but as a slumping movement of mud and clay in which undermined areas \u201cglide\u201d down, often strangely intact, towards the water. &nbsp;\n\nA typical Sheppey landslip had occurred in 1809, when a great clod of land measuring 500ft by 150 ft \u201cslid gradually down to the valley called Busbyhole\u201d. &nbsp;It took with it parts of a dwellinghouse, a cow-house and several outbuildings\u2019 but the descent was so gradual and gentle, that the corn planted on the land could still be \u201charvested in a good condition the following autumn\u201d. &nbsp;\n{image 487 caption=\"Illustrated London News, 1870\"}\nAnother of these falls occurred in June 1870. &nbsp;As the Sheerness Times reported on the 25th, this one had been seen by two officers who, having just walked over the fallen acre, announced the descent to have been \u201ca grand sight\u201d. &nbsp;The&nbsp; pleasure gardens sold as part of the Royal Oak Inn had recently been diminished too \u2013 \u201clarge slips of land have also taken place at the Royal Oak, East-End-Lane, during the past few years, reducing the lawn, which was of considerable size, to the insignificant area it now occupies.\u201d \n\n\n{image 484 caption=\"View from &quot;Royal Oak Point&quot;, painted for &quot;The Development Company&quot;, set up to sell plotland sites for shacks and bungalows above the unstable cliffs at Minster by the developer F. R. Ramuz and Son. Circa 1910\"}\n\nAlthough the surrounding land and garden kept collapsing around it, the Royal Oak survived until the 1950s, when it was finally cleared before it joined its ancient orchard and bowling green in \u201cgoing under\u201d. As for the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union, by the 1880s, the much maligned Albert Simmons had connected its cause with franchise reform, standing as a parliamentary candidate for William Gladstone\u2019s Liberal Party and calling the labourers of Kent to join the Liberals against the \u201cscornful curl of the lip\u201d with which Tories had always met their demands&nbsp; for improvement (Thanet Advertiser 27 June 1885, p.4 ).\n\nSimmons may be less remembered than Joseph Arch of Warwickshire, but the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union 
46was one of the most successful of the associations that formed during the Revolt of the Fields. This may be attributed to its use of festivals and journalism as well as its strike and sickness funds. &nbsp;Yet it was also distinguished by its commitment to assisted emigration, a cause that earlier defenders of the English rural community such as William Cobbett had opposed as a wholly unnecessary displacement spuriously justified by appeals to Malthus\u2019s theory of the surplus population. For Simmons, on the contrary, emigration was another weapon in the battle against the Tory farmers.Speaking to a crowd of about 1000 in Canterbury in July 1872, Simmons disputed the frequently trotted out allegation that the union had been got up by \u201cpaid agitators\u201d determined to bring on a strike. &nbsp;Its policy, he explained, &nbsp;was actually moderate and gradual. &nbsp;The&nbsp; first step was to request an increase in wages, and then to seek independent arbitration if this was refused. &nbsp;The third measure, which was placed before the fourth and final option of calling a strike, was to enable \u201csuch men as desired\u201d to migrate or emigrate \u201cfrom Kent to better places\u201d (Maryport Observer, 20 March 1874, p,. 2.) Various destinations were available, but the union appears to have favoured sending its emigrating families \u201cdown under\u201d to South Australia and &nbsp;New Zealand. &nbsp; It helped 234 families embarked for South Australia near the end of 1873. 400 had gone by the end of the year, when a concerned farmer from Waltham ventured the hope that a good half of them would soon enough be begging to exchange \u201cthe aguish forest of New Zealand, the blinding sands of Australia, or the wild prairies of North America for the hop gardens of Kent.\u201d &nbsp;(Kentish Gazette&nbsp; 16 December 1873). &nbsp;In 1879, Simmons countered another farmers\u2019 lock-out by filling &nbsp;a steamship made available to him by the Agent-General of New Zealand, and himself joining the emigrating labourers on their voyage. Since many of the departing labourers had worked in Kent\u2019s hop fields, he took a selection of hop plants so that they might renew their activities once landed. &nbsp;As Simmons intended, this encouragement of emigration helped increase pressure on farmers, especially at busy times of year when their harvest depended on the easy availability of workers. &nbsp;It\u2019s effectiveness may be measured by various furious reports in the county press. &nbsp;It would be said that Simmons and the other \u201cmountebanks\u201d at the head of the union were making a killing from the commission they secured for everyone they signed up for free passage to the far side of the Empire. &nbsp;The county\u2019s Tory papers also opened their pages to stories about the bitter disappointment of emigrants who disembarked in places that were anything but the \u201cland of milk and honey\u201d they had been promised. &nbsp;Regrets were keenly anticipated among those Simmons had sent to New Zealand and South Australia, but the commentators had to make do with those of the agricultural labourers who had been \u201cinduced by philanthropists\u201d to embark for Brazil in May 1872, and soon found themselves doing the work of slaves: \u201cWe live together like pigs\u2026 We would not have come here for all the world had we known\u201d (Kentish Gazette, 24 December 1874). &nbsp; Nobody could justifiably stick the blame for that particular passage on Simmons, but the accusation was generalised nonetheless.A rotation like this had long been underway in the agricultural economy of Sheppey, with farm labourers emigrating to America, often helped by children who had gone before them, and their departure being noted in newspapers in Ireland (the Sligo Champion published such a notice on 3 November 1851), whence \u201citinerant\u201d labourers would make their way to the island to take up available work at harvest time. It was in a clash between Irish and English labourers at Eastchurch during the harvest of 1837 that the insulting word \u201cpikey\u201d is said to have entered the English language (Sea View, pp.107-8).\n{image 485 caption=\"&quot;My bungalow is five minutes walk from this beautiful place&quot;. Postcard, sent 18 July 1931.\"}\n\n\nOf the agricultural labourers who didn\u2019t ship out for the \u201cNew World\u201d, we might now think more generously about Benjamin Bunk, an elderly and besmocked labourer who turned up at one of the island\u2019s first Suffragist meetings in August 1909. &nbsp;One of the holidaying speakers, the American Alys Pearsall Smith (aka Mrs. Bertrand Russell), records that Mr. Bunk proved an awkward presence before going off to get himself another glass of beer. Overall, though, she found herself facing a serious and attentive audience at that meeting in Eastchurch, singling out a roughly clad young labourer, who stood rapt and immovable throughout the astonishing event, and dropped several coins into the collection pail at the close&nbsp; (Sea View, pp. 176-7). &nbsp;\n\n\n\nA politics that once counted: two blasts from the rural class struggle in late Victorian Kent1. \u201cGreat Franchise Demonstration at Canterbury,\u201d Thanet Advertiser, 27 June 1885, p. 4.\nMr. Alfred Simmons (Liberal candidate for the St Augustine\u2019s Division) was very warmly received. &nbsp;He said: \u2013 I rise at the &nbsp;request of the labourers of Kent and Sussex, and on their behalf to move the following motion:\n\n\u201cThis meeting of Kent and Sussex labourers and representatives of Liberal Associations of Kent and East Sussex, remembering the promise that the present Parliament should not be dissolved until the household suffrage had been granted to the counties, tenders its grateful thanks to Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party for the consistency with which they have fulfilled that promise to the people.\u201d\n\nFrom the time of my boyhood I have been, as I hope and believe, a consistent follower of the man whom I believe to have been the best friend that the working classes of the country ever had (a voice: Gladstone), and I assure you it sends a thrill of grateful pleasure through me to be selected to move this resolution of thanks to our grand old leader, Mr. Gladstone ((Loud cheers.) The speaker then recounted the long and great struggle the labourers had had to obtain their rights, and pointed out to his hearers who it was that had always opposed them. &nbsp;His experience had been that when they asked a Conservative member of Parliament to supp
46ort that measure they had been met with the scornful curl of the lip.&nbsp; \u201cWe have been mocked and laughed at, and I tell you, and I tell you truthfully, that you do not owe the smallest amount of thanks to the Tory party for your votes. (Cheers.) I have been asked by some labourers to describe if I could what was the difference between a Conservative and a Liberal, and to do so I will tell you this. &nbsp;The Conservatives always have obstructed and attempted to cripple the reforms demanded by the people. The Liberals have always initiated and advocated and agitated these reforms in the teeth of the Tory party, and they have been victorious (Cheers.) This is the difference between the Liberal and Tory. The Tory obstructs you and keeps you down. &nbsp;The Liberal helps you to get up, rise; and to-day I, as one whom I believe you will trust, tell you this that so far as I am concerned no uncertain sound shall proceed from me on this question (Cheers.) . . . &nbsp;I venture solemnly, seriously to warn you against being duped, hoodwinked by these atrocious statements of our opponents, and I would like you to ask them, if the Tory party have not opposed you, who has? (Cheers.) How is it that the franchise was not introduced when you first asked for it 13 years ago? &nbsp;Where has the opposition come from? Why as a matter of fact and certainty it has come from the usual quarter from which opposition to the people always has and always will come, from the Tory party. (Hear, hear). &nbsp;Although perhaps there may be individual men stupid enough to allow themselves to be hoodwinked (hear, hear), let me beseech of the mass of you to stand, firmly and honourable by the side of those of us who have led you to victory\u2026\u201d\n\n\n 2. &nbsp;\u201cA Word to Labourers,\u201d Kent &amp; Sussex Courier, 13 January 1893, p. 6 \n\n\u201cSo far as Kent is concerned we believe there is now a real \u201creunion of hearts\u201d between the three main elements into which the agricultural community is divided. A few years since it was not so. Then the labourers regarded their masters and their landlords, to say nothing about the parson, as their natural enemies. That feeling was the outcome of the pernicious teachings of Mr. Alfred Simmons and others connected with the Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union. But we all know how that union has dwindled into a state of impotency, after doing an infinitude of mischief in breaking up those kindly relations which had for many years existed between the Kentish farmers and their men. We have good warrant for saying that no one now regrets that more than the labourers themselves; &nbsp;and that in future they will rather treat their natural leaders \u2014 the landlords and the tenant farmers \u2014 than put any reliance in such mountebanks as Simmons, Steadman, and others, who only have their own selfish ends to served.&nbsp; Who that remembers that first meeting in the Bell Rink, at Maidstone, some three-and-twenty years ago, when Simmons, Roots, and Co., with the aid of the Maidstone Telegraph, floated the Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union, can look back upon it with anything but disgust and execration? &nbsp;How many of our sturdy Kentish labourers \u2014 good, honest men and true \u2014 that were then and afterwards led into joining the union ever suspected that it had its origin in an emigration scheme, whereby its promoters were to put a handsome sum into their pockets for every man, woman and child they could send out of the country? &nbsp; That scheme was the death-knell of hundreds . . . Simmons was king, with a following of twenty thousand dupes, not one of whom derived any lasting benefit from their slavish adherence to their newfound saviour. Their hard earned money was squandered in gew-gaws, scarves, ribbons, stars, flags, and banners; Simmons and his satellites drew high salaries, and in the end they prosecuted him for misappropriating their funds.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tA house for Somerset Maugham\u2019s \nCockney barber, \u201cSheppey\u201d\u201cI wish now I\u2019d gone down to the Isle of Sheppey when the doctor advised it. You wouldn\u2019t \u2019ave thought of looking for me there.\u201d\u2014 \u201cSheppey\u201d, who was played by John Gielgud in the first prodution, speaking to Death in Somerset Maugham\u2019s last play, Sheppey: a Play in Three Acts,&nbsp;1933\u201cI know the very \u2019ouse I\u2019m going to buy when my ship comes home. Two acres of land. View of the sea. Just the place for me and my old woman.\u201d\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 318 caption=\"Plotland dwelling, near Sheerness, c. 1935\"}\n{image 286 caption=\"Expanded bungalow, Warden\"}\n{image 297 caption=\"Cheyney Rock House, formerly HQ of Mr. Alston's oyster empire\"}\n{image 287 caption=\"&quot;Bungalette&quot;, Shellbeach\"}\n{image 296}\n{image 335 caption=\"Banks Terrace, Mile Town, Sheerness\"}\n{image 325 caption=\"Extended bungalette, Shellbeach\"}\n{image 299 caption=\"Shurland Hall, Eastchurch, remaining gatehouse ot &quot;the house that played host to Henry VIII&quot;\"}\n{image 333 caption=\"Warden Point, the last house before the advancing cliff \"}\n{image 288 caption=\"&quot;As solid as a rock&quot;, house on Blue Town High Street, saved from slum clearance by Cypriot barber John Abramides\"}\n{image 300 caption=\"Flats where the Sea View Hotel once stood, Broadway, Sheerness\"}\n{image 295 caption=\"Remnant of the village that once served the Turkey Cement Works at Elmley\"}\n{image 290 caption=\"The Glass House, formerly the Victoria, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\"}\n{image 319 caption=\"26  &amp; 25 Marine Parade, Sheerness\"}\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tSheerness\n\t\n\n{image 356 caption=\"Gentleman outside the Belle and Lion,  a Wetherspoon pub on Sheerness High Street, 6 July 2018\"}\n \n\n\t\u201cOn-Sea\u201d \nin all weathers\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t{image 33 scale=\"89\"}\n\t\n{image 238 scale=\"100\"}\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n{image 233}\n{image 268}\n{image 329}\n{image 232}\n{image 234}\n{image 229}\n{image 230}\n{image 231}\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\tUnder snow\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 145}\n{image 146}\n{image 148}\n{image 149}\n{image 152}\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tSheerness photographed on 28 February 2018 by Simeon Haselton \u201cwith my granddad's old [medium format Agfa Billy Record] camera, which was created in\nthe mid-30s, around the time of Uwe Johnson's birth\u201d.\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tD.H. Lawrence on Marine Parade\u2019s \nFirst Breakwater\n\n{image 321 caption=\"Marine Parade, circa 1865\"}\nD.H. Lawrence\u2019s mother, Lydia Beardsall, grew up in Sheerness before 1870, when an accident in the dockyard&nbsp; wrecked her father\u2019s health and forced the family, which had lived there since 1858,&nbsp; to leave in some penury. Lawrence would later describe her as a \u201csuperior soul\u201d(by which he surely didn\u2019t mean that she was a snob).&nbsp; He also used her as the model for Gertrude Morel in his novel Sons and Lovers (1913): sensitive and intelligent but married to a brutalised and drunken Nottingham miner and inclined, in the midst of this life of \u201cdreary endurance\u201d, to grieve for the girl who had \u201crun so lightly on the breakwater at Sheerness ten years before\u201d.\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tSheerness from above\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\u201cThen, for the first time, I saw Sheerness from 10,000 feet up, a spit of land between the Medway and the Thames.\u201d\u2014 Uwe Johnson, 1978\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 228 caption=\"C. S. Rolls in his Short-Wright flyer at the Aero Club\u2019s flying ground, Shellbeach, Sheppey, Flight, 1909\"}\n{image 254 caption=\"Diewenow, a spit of land on the Pomeranian Baltic, where Johnson remembered summer days as an infant with his farming grandparents. Postcard, sent 1944\"}\n{image 222 caption=\"Sheerness, c. 1978, looking west across the town and port to the Medway\"}\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 393 caption=\"Luftwaffe aerial photo of the &quot;war Harbour&quot; at Sheerness, 1943\"}\n\n\t\n\n\n{image 223 caption=\"Marine Town, Sheerness, c. 1978. Aerial photos by George Poule, Studio 137, Sheerness\"}\n\n\n\n{image 285 caption=\" Marine Parade, looking east from the sea wall opposite Johnson's house, 2017\"}\n\n\t\n\tSee Johnson\u2019s neighbourhood as a German visitor filmed it when he was still there in 1981.\n\t\n\n\n\n\t \n\t\n\nThe Johnsons\u2019 House{image 459}\n\n\n{image 155 caption=\"26 Marine Parade\"}\n{image 187}\n{image 184}\n{image 183}\n{image 189}\n{image 308}\n{image 274}\n{image 156}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n{image 421 caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"}\n{image 422 caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"}\n{image 424 caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"}\n{image 423 caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"}\n{image 420 caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"}\n{image 425 caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"}\n{image 426 caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"}\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tMutual Aid: scaling the Heights of Alma. A pub seen from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tNeighbour: Martin Aynscomb Harris, the artist next door but one\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t{image 322}\n\n\u201cHe drives a Jaguar, even if he uses it the way other people use apple carts\u201d (UJ, Sea View, 346-66).\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t{image 494}\n\nMartin Aynscomb Harris, selected paintings exhibited against his father-in-law\u2019s car, Rowland\u2019s Castle, Hampshire, c. 1965 (both pictures shown with thanks to Louise &amp; Emma Harris).\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tLooking Through Glass\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\tLighthouse, Cap Arkona, R\u00fcgen &nbsp;G\u00fcnter Kunert once suggested that Uwe Johnson viewed the world through a \u201cbell jar of strangeness\u201d.&nbsp; Yet the glass behind which he isolated himself was surely the lens of an observatory too. When I put a question about Johnson\u2019s essay \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d to the German sociologist Renate Mayntz, who was a friend of the writer over many years, she described 
46it as \u201cvery characteristic of [Johnson\u2019s] way of looking at reality: incisive, cold, as objective as possible, a camera that catches all details and even the legacy, the history inscribed in the present... I think in his passionate search for descriptive exactness, for \u2018truth\u2019 without implied protest or some normative \u2018message\u2019, he was a true representative of Enlightenment. There are things you don\u2019t have to say, you just need to show them.\u201d \nThe Sea View Has Me Again, p. 589.\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tJohnson\u2019s other Observatory\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 307 caption=\"Napier Tavern, Broadway, Sheerness, 2016.\"}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\nJohnson once told Le Monde that his years in the GDR had equipped him with an \u201cirreplaceable method of interrogation and experimentation.\u201d (Sea View, p. 36). Two local pubs, in particular, came to serve as the informal research institutes in which he applied this challenging mode of enquiry to the people of Sheerness. His chosen hostelries, The Sea View Hotel and the Napier Tavern, were both on Broadway, close to his house. According to Ronald Peel, publican at the Napier Tavern, Johnson always turned up at the same time in the evening, stepping into the&nbsp; saloon bar with a brief \u201cGood Evening\u201d \u2014 or \u201cGood heavening!\u201d as Johnson himself imagines them registering his pronunciation \u2014 and then taking his customary place on a high, wooden barstool with a seat upholstered in red synthetic leather of the type Tom Waits was in those days hymning as \u201cNaugahyde\u201d. He allegedly always wore the same distinctive garb too: a black peaked watchman\u2019s cap, a black leather jacket, black trousers, black leather boots, and sometimes a thin black leather tie \u2014 the same gear, in other words, that had shocked the poet and translator, Michael Hamburger, who had been astonished to find this highly regarded and sensitive writer going about in the garb of a Hell\u2019s Angel or skinhead. (Sea View, p. 392)\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\u201cCharlie\u2019s\u201d bar stool\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 151}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t Long preserved as a relic at the Napier Tavern, the stool from which Johnson, aka \u201cCharlie\u201d, observed and sometimes participated in proceedings is here seen in use as a prop with Big Fish and Friends at their performance of texts from UJ\u2019s Island Stories, Little Theatre, Meyrick Road, Sheerness, 5 March 2016.\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\tThe bedspread and the kidney machine: charity fund-raising at the Sea View Hotel\n\t\n\n\t\n\t{image 395}\n\t\n\n\t\n\tPublican Col Mason (left) handing a cheque for \u00a3184 to the chairman of the local kidney machine fund. \u201cThe Mayor is in attendance, complete with his chains, and so too is Johnson: an uncaptioned figure standing alongside the others at the back.\u201d (Sea View, p. 401). The white object, front, was first prize in the raffle. As Johnson wrote to friends in Rostock: \u201cNow I wanted to win that bedspread for you. Further details can be found on the two enclosed raffle tickets, and as for this white monstrosity\u2019s weight, I will say only that the ladies\u2019 knees buckled slightly when it was placed in their two arms for them to admire it.\u201d The picture was printed in the Sheerness Times Guardian on 15 September 1978.\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\tThe (other) sociologist and the glass that was never raised\n\nJohnson, may have been unaware of it, but he wasn\u2019t the\nonly person investigating the Isle of Sheppey and the situation of its remaining people after the naval dockyard and also the associated army garrison and naval command (\u201cThe Nore\u201d )&nbsp; were closed in 1960. &nbsp; Ray Pahl, the geographically trained professor\nof Sociology at the University of Kent, also started exploring the Isle of Sheppey\nin the 1970s.&nbsp; \n\n{image 489}\n\n\nIndeed, he adopted the\nisland as a kind of research laboratory in which to investigate the consequences\nof deindustrialisation of the kind that had destroyed the island\u2019s economy at a\nstroke. Starting out with romantic ideas of the \u201curban pirate\u201d with his often\nless than legal ways of \u201cgetting by\u201d, he approached the Isle of Sheppey as a\nplace where the post-industrial future was already coming into view. He traced the\nemergence of the \u201cinformal economy\u201d on the island, and the replacement of the full\ntime male job with a more mixed form of \u201chousehold economy\u201d in which w
46omen\u2019s\nwork, DIY initiatives, &nbsp;and sometimes nefarious\nforms of \u201cself-provisioning\u201d featured largely. \nTogether w ith his Ph.D student and co-researcher, Claire Wallace, Pahl also\nstudied the experience and perceptions of school leavers on the island. They produced\nwork of abiding influence on economic and social policy \u2013 Pahl in his book Divisions\nof Labour (1984) and Wallace in her later study of the \u201cfracture\u201d the closure\nimposed on the lives and expectations of girls and boys in For Richer, For\nPoorer: Growing up In and Out of Work (1987). &nbsp;Johnson and Pahl may never have met to compare\nfindings but their accounts of island life in the seventies and early eighties have\na world in common.&nbsp; \n\n\n\n\n\n\n{image 488}\n \nThe Kingsferry Bridge across the Swale was built&nbsp; in\n1960, a year in which the island economy was shattered by the closure of the\ndockyard at Sheerness. An entirely practical structure, which carried trains as\nwell as road vehicles between Sheppey and the richer mainland to which Kent\u2019s\nreputation as the \u201cGarden of England\u201d has always been attached, it achieved&nbsp; symbolic significance for Pahl:\n\u201cPahl\u2019s drive over the Kingsferry Bridge was not just\na crossing from the\u201cmacro\u201d to the \u201cmicro\u201d level of analysis, nor, in the terms that\nhis PhD student and co-researcher Claire Wallace would borrow from the sociologist\nBasil Bernstein, from the \u201celaborated\u201d codeof middle-class language to the more practical and allegedly \u201crestricted\u201d code\nof working-class speech. For Pahl, crossing the Swale also meant preferring\n\u201chard, obdurate reality\u201d against the \u201cdisembodied\u201d theories gripping many of\nhis colleagues at the university. Sheppey was where Pahl would take his stand,\nseeking to go beyond the vivid but far from \u201cscientific\u201d investigations carried\nout by Mass Observation and by writers such as George Orwell and J.B. Priestley\nin the Thirties. As time went on, he would also claim common cause with E.P. Thompson,\nthe Marxist historian and activist who asserted the case for experience, agency\nand the historically dynamic nature of social class as against what he called\nthe \u201cpoverty of theory\u201d [embodied by Louis Althusser and his English followers] in a blazing\nEnglish tract published in 1978.\u201d&nbsp; (Sea View, p. 421)\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tSheerness Times Guardian\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\nWherever he found himself, Uwe Johnson required newspapers. In West Germany, it might be Die Zeit or Der Spiegel.&nbsp; In Rome it was La Stampa. He read the New York Times in Berlin as well as during his trips to America.&nbsp; In England he took both the national Guardian and the island weekly, the Sheerness Times Guardian.\n\t\n\n{image 312 caption=\"Photo: Michael Thomas, 2012\"}\n\n\t\n\t\nIn the first edition on January 1858, the founder of the Sheerness Guardian, Thomas Rigg, had hailed Sheerness as an outward-looking new town that had nothing in common with parochial and tradition-bound communities on the Kentish mainland. Unlike such backwaters, Sheerness had \u201cscarcely any aboriginal race\u201d. It was open to the wider world via the naval and military establishments that formed the primary reason for its existence. The town, said Rigg, was \u201ca colony of emigrants from all parts of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.\u201d And \u201cto such a society,\u201d so Rigg proudly declared, \u201cthe affairs of the neighbouring country are, in most cases, about as interesting as the local policy of Timbuctoo.\u201d\nMore than a century later, the Sheerness Times Guardian&nbsp; would provide Johnson with stories \u2014informative, moving and peculiar too \u2014 to pass on to faraway friends. It would also serve as a screen, or perhaps something closer to a crinkly net curtain, through which an unconvinced incomer might peer without giving anything away: a useful device, in other words, when it comes to keeping your perceptions \u201cnon-committal\u201d and, as Johnson continued in a letter to Max Frisch, preventing them from \u2018ascending into experience or judgement\u2019. There was, though, an exception to be made for the Kent Evening Post (context: Sea View, pp. 452-58)\n\n\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t{image 404 scale=\"58\" caption=\"Johnson's postcardf to the Kent Evening Post, 3 April 1981\"}\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tIsland Music\n{image 323 scale=\"61\"}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\tHenry Russell, the composer of \u201cA Life on the Ocean Wave\u201d,: Cheers, Boys, Cheers\u201d and many other popular songs of the nineteenth century, was born into Sheerness\u2019s Jewish community in 1812.Yet the island\u2019s music had changed by the 1970s. As Johnson is likely to have discovered from the pages of the Sheerness Times Guardian, Michael \u201cNatsy\u201d Contant was one of the very first to introduce Caribbean steel bands to Britain and Europe. Having come from Trinidad as a tuner with the Dixieland Steel Orchestra in 1960, he lived for many years at 7 Delamark Road in Sheerness, tuning pans on a stretch of waste ground&nbsp; beside Kingsferry Bridge and, with his classically trained wife Carol and their children, forming the Rainbow Steel Band, which regularly presented \u201cmusic of the Caribean\u201d on the island as well as elsewhere in Britain and Europe. Their \u201chauntingly beautiful\u201d sound, and especially&nbsp; their arrangement of Richard Addinsell\u2019s \u201cWarsaw Concerto\u201d, appears to have been particularly popular with Sheppey audiences.\u2014 \u201cLove My Life\u201d Robbie Williams\u2019s day at Shellness\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\tSt. Sexburgha\u2019s Abbey: Minster-on-Sea:\n\n\n\n{image 249}\n\t\n\n{image 256}\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n{image 414 caption=\"Minster Abbey, from top rear window of Johnson's house, 2018\"}\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tINTERWININGS\nThe Transnational Landscape: Ahrenshoop, Fischland and Shellbeach, Sheppey\n\u201cFischland is the most beautiful place in the world.\u201d \u2014 Gesine Cresspahl in Anniversaries IV\n\n\n\n\n{image 409}\n{image 408}\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n{image 242 caption=\"Ahrenshoop in Summer\"}\n{image 244 caption=\"Shellness\"}\n{image 38 caption=\"Shellness\"}\n{image 243 caption=\"Ahrenshoop in Winter\"}\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\nOn Sheppey, the Englishman isn\u2019t always an Englishman and his home is definitely neither a castle nor a stately home raised on colonial extraction or slavery. \u201cBungalettes\u201dat Shellbeach.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo Island Resorts\n1. Leysdown-on-Sea\n\n\n\n\u201cWe\ncan all agree that Britain\u2019s coast has been trashed. Yet has it ever been so\nsedulously trashed as on Sheppey? Leysdown on the northeast corner of that isle\nis terminal England, the last resort, the nadir of bungalow development. It makes Hayling look like Biarritz...\u201d \u2014 Jonathan Meades, \u201cLast Resort\u201d (1991){image 462}{image 474}{image 463}{image 464}{image 465}\n\u201cThe bricolage and inspiredly untutored inventiveness of most early twentieth century plotlands is missing. On the shore, half a mile from the village\u2019s centre, there are asbestos and woo
46den hutments, endlessly buffeted by the howling easterly. Bent bushes try to smother them.\u201d&nbsp; (Meades)\n\n{image 466}{image 471}\n\n\n\n{image 472}\u201cLeysdown on Sea is the ancestral dreamsite of a Lost Tribe: all the aboriginal cockney characteristics, celebrated in fiction and in song, have migrated here \u2013 and have been buried alive in pitches of caravans, mobile homes, wooded sentry boxes (inner-city privies), and upturned tin boats, veterans of Dunkirk.\u201d (Iain Sinclair, Downriver (1991, p. 397).\n{image 461}{image 469}{image 470}Out-of-season objectors aside, Squeeze\u2019s song \u201cPulling Mussels from the Shell\u201d (1980) was inspired by nostalgic memories of family holidays at Leysdown.&nbsp; Here it is, accompanied by footage from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.&nbsp;\nRegeneration: Heavy Lifting by Artists (2009-2013) \n \u201cLeysdown-Rose-Tinted\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n{image 394}\n{image 252}\n{image 251}\n\n2. Prora\n{image 428 caption=\"A wall in the Documentation Centre at Prora\"}\nWhatever may be said about the laissez-faire mess that is Leysdown-on-Sea, it was never as dismal as the colossal resort of Prora, built in the late Thirties as part of the Nazi government\u2019s \u201cStrength through Joy\u201d initiative. Conceived as one of five vast \u201cSea Baths\u201d proposed for workers following the destruction of Germany\u2019s trade unions, it consists of a series of huge six-floor concrete blocks placed along the 4.5 kilometre length of a magnificent Baltic beach on the spit connecting Sassnitz and Binz on the eastern coast of the Pomeranian Island of R\u00fcgen.&nbsp; &nbsp;\n\n\n\n\n{image 429}\n{image 430}\n{image 439}\n{image 440}\n{image 427}\nRobert Ley, the Nazi head of the German Labour Front (Uwe Johnson allows him a brief appearance in Anniversaries as a \u201cdrunken pig\u201d), imagined Prora as a Nazi answer to Butlins that would provide compliant workers with a week of indoctrinated leisure. Every room would have a sea view. There would be cinemas, swimming pools, canteens and, at Hitler\u2019s insistence, a central arena in which twenty thousand joyful workers could be addressed as a concentrated Sieg Heiling mass.\n\n\n\n \n{image 431}\n{image 435}\n{image 432}\n{image 433}\n{image 434}\n{image 436}\n{image 441}\n{image 437}\n{image 438}\n\nIn 1991 this never-completed line of Aryan barracks (construction was interrupted by the outbreak of war in September 1939) emerged from GDR military control as a set of disconcerting ruins. When we last visited the site, some of its reinforced concrete was acquiring an unexpectedly luxurious shine. The developers who had bought some of the blocks, themselves now listed for conservation, were bringing them to new life, although not as the centre for refugees that some critics have suggested might be appropriate. Two-bedroom apartments with new balconies were being offered at \u20ac600,000 and upward.\n\n\n\n\nThe Investor shipwrecked.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne Window: Two Ships\n\n\n\n\u201cIt all revolved around the view. It was the view that was appropriated.\u201d \n\u2014 Uwe Johnson, on Riverside Park, \u201cA Part of New York,\u201d 1968 \n\n\n\n\n{image 397}\n{image 400}\n{image 399}\n\u201cIt may be not merely egotistical if I describe to you some views to be seen over the course of a few afternoon hours. Views, namely, out the window, and I wish you could have seen them: the two of us, next to each other, right in front of the house, where the poorer folks from London enjoy disporting themselves on a Sunday like this one, as tourists by the sea, visible only from the waist up to me and my dear wife Mrs. Letsnotdiscussit, and yet still a valuable warning about the lack of, or taste in, leisure attire. Following them come the waves of the River Thames, sea-like here, beating against the stones as high or as low as the Royal Geographical Tidal Institute\u2019s calendar permits them to. For an ignorant observer such as myself, they are merely bright white a long way out, a little dirty-looking but choppy in any case; the last third of my visual field, though, is as blue as blue can be, magnificently changeable, from pale to gray to strapping within this color. Within and atop this blue, what is there to say to a lady from K\u00f6nigsberg: bathers in various stages of suffering from sunburn, boats with sails in fashionable colorations, some of them even classified and many of them well-suited to offer me certain memories, silent but critical, pertaining to the process of jibing. People paddling, those who let themselves be brought hither and thither by petrol engines, and on the horizon, where cartography would suggest that we should be able to detect the south coast of Essex, merely a difference: not a line, a smudge between water and sky, that educated people label as a horizon and which is therefore mine. And I\u2019ve almost forgotten to admit to you the rude British Petroleum oil tanker that just now went pitching from right to left, from east to west, across the window \u2014 probably because I believe I share your opinion of such objects in one\u2019s field of view.\u201d\n\n\u2014 Uwe Johnson, Letter to Hannah Arendt, 8\/3\/197
465\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe SS Richard Montgomery:\n \u201cWhat is that thing?\u201d\n\n\n\n\n{image 451}\n{image 447}\n\n\u201cIn the Thames, about two miles off the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, a cluster of parallel diagonal poles catches one\u2019s eye. They are visible especially at low tide, but also when the tide is eighteen feet higher, because behind them tosses and pitches almost ten miles of the water\u2019s surface as well as, since the Essex coast in the distance quite noticeably veers off to the north, the horizon line under the quickly shifting illuminations of the sky. Whoever moves here to the town of Sheerness, on the northwest corner of the island, is struck by the reflections of the light in the multiply moving mouth of the Thames and North Sea, and at first he thinks those poles are fish traps, blown into a diagonal position by a ferocious west wind, since the eye is easily fooled about distances when looking out across a boundless body of water; the black triangle that becomes visible between the poles at ebb tide can easily be taken for a fishing boat with underlying property rights. Whoever has moved here and has decided he is in need of binoculars will find himself losing faith in those fish traps, since for two weeks they are not moved once, and furthermore the poles are of unequal length, and in a strangely regular relationship with one another, and located too close to the central waterway. What is that thing?\u201d\u2014 U.J. \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d (1979)\n\n\n\n \n\n{image 178}\n{image 177}\n\n\u201cOur one sight worth seeing\u201d\n\n\u201cEither we\u2019ll go down wet, or we\u2019ll go up in a fireball\u201d\n\n\n\n\n{image 448}\n{image 449}\n{image 450}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Explosion\u201cAn explosion of this mixture will be among the largest in human memory, if you leave aside the nuclear ones. If you take the Richard Montgomery as the centre of a circle with a radius of two miles, the first land to be hit will be the northwest corner of the island, with the town and port of Sheerness. The older buildings and unreinforced walls will collapse, and the gas and water pipes will shatter. Within a radius of seven miles, broken glass and the collapse of any wobbly chimneys or loose roofs are likely. That circle includes half of the town of Sittingbourne, as well as the oil port and refinery complex on the Isle of Grain, west of Sheppey. The detonation may cause a fireball whose air pressure will fling heavy objects and debris more than a mile, perhaps into one of the supertankers with a hundred thousand tons of oil in its belly. (The Richard Montgomery lies near the extremely busy shipping channel of the Thames. A few miles farther north, Her Royal Highness\u2019s Ministry of Defence maintains and runs a naval artillery range in the ocean, whose detonations reach the windows of Sheerness like fist blows.) A simultaneous explosion of the whole cargo will cause a tidal wave to rush up the Medway and Thames rivers, destroying additional settlements near the banks. At low tide, the effects would be multiplied, due to there being less water to absorb the shock. The ultimate extent of the damage will be determined by the weather. Any heavy, low-lying cloud cover above the exploding cargo of bombs will bounce back ascending shock waves and the multiple ricochets will reach Canvey Island, ten miles upstream, where they will hit storage tanks with a holding capacity of almost forty thousand barrels of oil as well as chemical and methane gas containers. A chain reaction or domino effect could produce damage in the eastern suburbs of London, to a greater or lesser extent. It is unlikely that the House of Commons or Whitehall would be affected.\u201d\n\u2014 UJ \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d\n\n\n\n\n{image 270}\n{image 269}\n{image 168}\n{image 166}\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Cap Arcona\n{image 193}\n \n{image 215}\n{image 203}\n{image 141}\n{image 169}\n{image 194}\n\nMany other such maritime explosions have been brought to mind by people trying to come to terms with the devastation threatening the Thames estuary from the SS Richard Montgomery. Local examples included the battleship HMS Bulwark, which exploded when moored off Sheerness on 26 November 1914, disappearing in a few seconds, with a loss of 741 men; and also the minelaying liner HMS Princess Irene, which went up killing 352, many of them local dockyard workers, in another disaster six months later. As will be known to readers of Anniversaries III, the exploding ships at the back of Johnson\u2019s mind as he looked out on the masts of the&nbsp;Richard Montgomery, included one that took its name from the northernmost point of the Baltic island of R\u00fcgen. &nbsp;\n\n\n\n{image 445}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy 1927, the chalky headland and lighthouse called Cap Arkona had given rise to an ocean-going liner: built and launched that year for the Hamburg-South American Line\u201d, the SS Cap Arcona was a \u201cfloating palace\u201d that became famous as the fastest most luxuri
46ous ship on the route for Latin America. Requisitioned during the Second World War, it was used as a barrack at the Baltic port of Gotenhafen, now restored to Poland as Gdynia. By the last days of the war in 1945, its engines had been burnt out during three desperate voyages shipping Germans west from the Russian advance, and it was moored in Neustadt Bay, not far from L\u00fcbeck. As Allied forces approached from the West, prisoners from various abandoned concentration camps were crammed aboard the Cap Arcona and other ships including a cargo vessel named the SS Thielbeck, and left to whatever dire fate awaited them.\nAs Johnson writes, \u201cFreedom came across the bright sunny bay on May 3 in the shape of a squadron of British bombers.\u201d Actually Typhoon fighter bombers from four squadrons were involved in the operation. They used rockets to sink the Cap Arcona and Thielbeck, along with several other undefended ships, and then came back to&nbsp;machine gun survivors\n\n{image 460 caption=\"SS. Cap Arcona, 1948\"}\n\n in the water. Those who survived that second assault, faced the prospect of being murdered by SS and other killers if they made it onto beaches at Timmendorfer, Priwall and Travemunde.. Between seven and eight thousand people of thirty differtent nationalities are said to have died. Corpses would turn up on scattered beaches for decades to come. Long before Remembrance Day was drafted into the service of Brexit, survivors had noted \u2014 with various degrees of anger and dismay \u2014 that the Cap Arcona disaster has not been allowed to disturb British commemoration of the Second World War.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n{image 278 caption=\"The old cemetery, Kl\u00fctz\"}\n{image 277}\n{image 279}\n{image 280}\n{image 281}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sheerness Wall\n\n\n\nJohnson knew the Berlin version well, but his last months were plagued by the construction of a very different wall directly across the road from his window.\n\n\n\u201cI have, no doubt, let fall a word or two about the inexorable pollution and impoverishment of the city of Sheerness. Now I am obliged to add the fact, impossible to make up, that the offices of Southern Water intend to protect this grimy, insignificant locale by raising the flood wall even higher in front of this row of houses. Preceding this undertaking must necessarily come the removal of the existing embankment with all its garages, storerooms, and the concrete wall on top, that is, a to and fro of heavy machinery from excavators to the wading crane with its fat cement noggin. As a result, Southern Water has sent representatives of a sworn surveyor\u2019s firm into every house to determine and record its architectural condition in anticipation of the claims they expect from residents as a consequence of the demolition and reconstruction. In other words, we have to reckon with the chance of collapsing walls, likewise of cracking windows. I mention all this in no way expecting that it will make me feel better to complain (a hypothesis all too amply disproven), but merely to discourage you for a time, say two years or so, from asking how I\u2019m doing. You will know the answer already: Aggrieved.\u201d &nbsp;\n\n\u2014 Uwe Johnson, letter to Burgel Zeeh, 26 August 1982\n\n\n\n{image 453}\n\nBuilt by Southern Water along the full length of Marine Parade in 1983-4, Sheerness\u2019 new Sea Defence Wall was higher than its oredecessor, but it was not build without some aesthetic effort. The engineers recognised the difficulty of integrating a high concrete rampart with the 19th century buildings that would be facing it from across the street. They consequently hired the architectural firm of Garnham Wright Associates, to design a \u201crusticated\u201d surface that might help their colossal barrier settle into the increasingly flood-prone town.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n{image 452}\nThe trade journal Cement and Concrete Quarterly celebrated Garnham Wright\u2019s design, commending the playfulness with which the architect proposed a seaside form of English pop art. Johnson, however, hated it. A few months before he died, in February 1984, he told his artist neighbour, Martin Aynscomb Harris, that the still unfinished \u201crusticated\u201d and graffiti-resisting rampart reminded him of the works of Hitler\u2019s preferred architect, Albert Speer.\n\n\n{image 454}\n{image 455}\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tVehicle passing shutters in the room that was once Johnson\u2019s basement office\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\tMore about the project \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e\nMore about the book \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e\n\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\tThe Sea ViewHas Me Again:Uwe Johnson in Sheerness\n\t\n\n{image 121 caption=\"Northeast corner of Georgian dockyard wall\"}","content_partial_html":"\n\t\n\t<h2><a href=\"The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again\" rel=\"history\">\u201cThe most involving and originally-conceived social history of modern England to have appeared in decades\u201d (Patrick McGuinness).<br><br>\nMore about the project<\/a>&nbsp;\ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<br>\n<a href=\"The-Book\" rel=\"history\">More about the book<\/a>&nbsp;\ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<\/h2><h2>Shona Illingworth\u2019s Sound Work for Estuary Festival 2021<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estuaryfestival.com\/event\/detail\/the-sea-view-has-me-again-patrick-wright-shona-illingworth.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon-link\">\ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<\/a><\/h2><br>\n<br>\n<h2>Another<a href=\"The-Book\" rel=\"history\">&nbsp;German in Sheerness<\/a>?<br>\n <br><a href=\"England-s-Last-Acceptable-Asylum-Seeker-The-Lesson-of-the-Piano-Man\" rel=\"history\">England\u2019s Last Acceptable Asylum Seeker? The Legend of the Piano Man&nbsp; \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<\/a><\/h2><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h3><a href=\"The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again\" rel=\"history\">The Sea View<br>Has Me Again:<br>Uwe Johnson <br>in Sheerness<\/a><\/h3><br>\nWith filmlets by Shona Illingworth, who joined the investigation in 2017,&nbsp;<br>\nand translations from Uwe Johnson\u2019s German by Damion Searls.<br>\n[Some of the images are arranged as click-through galleries, including the first one below]<br>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\t\n\n\n\t\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\n<br><br>\n\n\t \n\t\n<br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b2eac615d011a17e5a246022318d8c65e1bda57bca1a8e7039c32c5ca06ce61b\/DSCN0146.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87497680\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ahrenshoop, Fischland\" data-caption=\"Ahrenshoop, Fischland\"\/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7fe2a294bba203849ffb4ee9aedd7378ce3c2109cd032a0d6e3d0f3becce91dd\/A002C415_171201TN_CANON.tiff42-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88730198\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Prora, R&uuml;gen\" data-caption=\"Prora, R\u00fcgen\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9ee6bb3d4fc77f635f18e6005d89eb5908cafce9387751f02f524a06362d6884\/IMG_2920.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89911324\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Prora, R&uuml;gen\" data-caption=\"Prora, R\u00fcgen\"\/>\n<img width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" width_o=\"1280\" height_o=\"960\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/69a1b3d84d4920aae42d325755df5278200cdff86c62c6ad22b3297653f3c11e\/thumbnail_IMG_2974.jpg\" data-mid=\"87933117\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rostock\" data-caption=\"Rostock\"\/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d1a702b4423a238e6be907f22110390741924f3b15f780fda96e2dfc35d1909c\/A004C246_17112767_CANON-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88792716\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Priwall\" data-caption=\"Priwall\"\/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e3d9df6e2dd973d562d47af906c4cf2515296415b8348d167292e516369ee070\/Two-Ships-test29-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88796232\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Timmendorfer Strand\" data-caption=\"Timmendorfer Strand\"\/>\n<img width=\"1474\" height=\"943\" width_o=\"1474\" height_o=\"943\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7825a9c730e2ea3ceaf84a9a580f30c37962fed98beeb16dcf55cc9a999dda3f\/s-l1600.jpg\" data-mid=\"88796868\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Riverside Park, New York\" data-caption=\"Riverside Park, New York\"\/>\n<img width=\"3288\" height=\"2100\" width_o=\"3288\" height_o=\"2100\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/765ea2e5610a7954fb7557b74ade841b36779cac305ab838bf4a446321c645f5\/Scan-6.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88095511\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Staten Island, New York\" data-caption=\"Staten Island, New York\"\/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/31c6b44729bc093460fc56658cd04bf4f92101796695cbc275f4b2c3bd40c090\/Two-Ships-test21.tiff192-copy-3.jpg\" data-mid=\"87290019\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson&rsquo;s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\" data-caption=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson\u2019s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\"\/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f61834b5e5786b6b1869a8def414601fe893420bc7303a84f340cec49e5a9bb6\/Two-Ships-test7-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88730178\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson&rsquo;s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\" data-caption=\"Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson\u2019s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)\"\/>\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480034981?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\" data-caption=\"East from Prora\" data-scale=\"100\"><\/iframe>\n<br><h5>East from Prora<\/h5>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480215336?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<h5>South from Zingst\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<h6>A Life Beside Rivers<br><\/h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h5>\u201cIt would be fair to say that I have a thing for rivers. It\u2019s true, I grew up on the Peene in Anklam, the Nebel flows through G\u00fcstrow, I have traveled to and in Rostock on the Warnow, Leipzig presented me with the Pleisse and the Elster, Manhattan is surrounded by the Hudson and East and North Rivers, I also recall a Hackensack River, and for the past three years I have had on offer outside my window the River Thames where it turns into the North Sea\u201d.<br>\u2014 Uwe Johnson, \u201cAbout Myself\u201d 1977<\/h5><br><br>\n\n\t \n\t\n<img width=\"2448\" height=\"4352\" width_o=\"2448\" height_o=\"4352\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/69767b5a08ba173b76a49f8c8cd61f0e82e6384f885bb1c80038ac5cf7112e3d\/IMG_0712.JPG\" data-mid=\"131357618\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n<br>\n\t<br>\n\n\t\n<img width=\"600\" height=\"597\" width_o=\"600\" height_o=\"597\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6e47f23636103bbe29ae9f85b24a086c4c62e288c8386baf04d9379e43c51fbc\/H508YA-copy-1.jpg\" data-mid=\"87384117\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" data-no-zoom=\"true\" alt=\"Uwe Johnson, 1 March 1973 (Alamy)\" data-caption=\"Uwe Johnson, 1 March 1973 (Alamy)\"\/>\n&nbsp;\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t\n<h4>The story of a great East German novelist, and the things he thought and saw during the nine years he lived as a voluntary castaway on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.<\/h4>\n\t\n<br><br>\n<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t<h6>Isle of Sheppey cemetery,<br>Halfway<\/h6>\n<br>\n\n\t<br>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480060261?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<br>\n\n\t<h5><\/h5><h5><i><\/i><\/h5>\n\t<h5>\u201cHe was a kind man often misunderstood because of his abrupt manner. He had no time for idle conversation or banalities. He sparred with words. He was a verbal heavyweight, an intellectual whose politics were very much to the left.\u201d<\/h5><h5>\u2014 Martin Aynscomb Harris (artist and Johnson\u2019s neighbour in Sheerness), March 1984.<\/h5><h5><i><\/i><\/h5>\n\t\n\n\t<br>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480215155?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><br>\n<h5><\/h5><h5><i><\/i><\/h5>\n\n\t\n\t<h5>\u201cNow it\u2019s quiet, the asphalt mirror of Riverside Drive shows us the treetops in their close friendship with the sky.\u201d<\/h5><h5>\u2014 Uwe Johnson, after a storm in New York City, <i>Anniversaries IV<\/i><\/h5>\n\t\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n\t\n\n\t<h6>The Writer <br>Who Chose a New Name<br><\/h6>\n<br>\nTowards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in \nthe small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the <i>Kent Evening Post<\/i>. \u201cCharles\u201d was the name he offered to his new acquaintances, and he didn\u2019t encourage curiosity about his past or the circumstances that had brought him to their town.<br>\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/edfbbd743ebe1b671305353f7c8befc82b561d5c03f131e5643016fdcd9760ed\/DSCN0172.jpg\" data-mid=\"88953535\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"65\"\/><br><br>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\tThe novelist Uwe Johnson was born in 1934 in\nCammin, Pomerania, and lived his first ten years with his parents and sister in\nAnklam, where his father, a trained agriculturalist, worked as supervisor of a dairy. In\n1944, he was sent inland to board at a German Home School run by the SS in\nKosten (now Koscian and in Poland). <br><br>\n<img width=\"3231\" height=\"2079\" width_o=\"3231\" height_o=\"2079\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5c4c6f96986a40fadbc5e1b0fee0a3b3952d3cac7beb3425ea51752683f5f6fb\/Scan-34-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91328466\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Amidon Remy, Postcard of the German Empire, c. 1910\" data-caption=\"Amidon Remy, Postcard of the German Empire, c. 1910\"\/>\n<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1819\" height=\"1288\" width_o=\"1819\" height_o=\"1288\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/829500635ead8687adc76162e8e919f2aef100207f68b089e7fdf9fc80bddc51\/IMG_0114.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91674823\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shell, road map of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, 1930s.\" data-caption=\"Shell, road map of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, 1930s.\"\/>\n<br><br>\nAs the Red Army advanced from the\nEast in 1945, Johnson and his family joined the chaotic flight west, finding\nrefuge in the small estate village of Recknitz, in Mecklenburgh, <br><br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/dfeb2f9cf9e29300ec183889645f80721c126b16e9fe6d60843ca7f4e704aae0\/1.--Smithy-window-DSCN0720.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447858\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Recknitz\" data-caption=\"Recknitz\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b91f57c8aa04dccc7e3ae773d730c553c1159d2960557db968407de55dbd93bb\/2.-Smith-wall-DSCN0721.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447859\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c74cf4f6732cfc22244f81a2169d19803030b3830cefdf33513fc2a326359441\/3.-Old-Smith-side.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447860\" border=
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465d5af2a982aeed323f26ae41d77d14a99cef26690b39ee43b4\/10.-Owl-sign.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447868\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2a795495f81cb17ca8269999ed0f2b23bec7f779a735672588fa67f1f8a15a1a\/11.-Augraben-ditch.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447869\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f17bded011df53d66688342c450d25d3146b239f76c2eab31d557cac56bd8ac9\/12.-Augraben-ditch.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447870\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/114c817390a28b72f31db9bc83c7aaea6525ac2f8622229e6e9fc1a3b7003a69\/13.-Churchyard-gate.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447871\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4872181dcd972eb61407042a22e6e8b2ff53020ac86f21a01f359693a5c4d456\/15.-House-from-Churchyard.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447874\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Recknitz\" data-caption=\"Recknitz\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7094ff018649fae7c289b0daded86501fe5f88045e2621c3375e0151757a704f\/16.-Memorial.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91447875\" border=\"0\" \/>\nwhere they stayed with Johnson\u2019s paternal\naunt and brother-in-law at the smithy. The father was incarcerated by the\nRussians shortly afterwards, and never seen again (he was declared dead a few\nyears later). From Recknitz, the family then moved to the nearby town of G\u00fcstrow&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/093b3d89c6e6bb98a24dcf58c4503d82dba47ce2634ebfe8995b917602e4243b\/Gustrow-3.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448725\" border=\"0\" alt=\"G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e1953a4e4b2e202b4c217cb47e13d8f9b4a0c0ec6e698ded62defc000f23ae57\/Gustrow-3.6..jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448726\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6e1142b4c25e494934e975c738d4c79e7639bc5e82eab18ce2dd8ab045f9d03d\/Gustrow-3.7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448727\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8696161775b539c7715a4c14472f87d031242609537e95fb7c608ef37f23f37e\/Guatrow-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448717\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/31fb3984e89cef09f65e1075db56483e6f3acddbae636fd51da16e2fb53a337d\/Gustrow-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448728\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c923bc8b7aa23d02444125934f65add6f2ffa60b9bbcb916e4627ecec7b336d9\/Gustrow-6.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448731\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a96f5fad504f2387259856117da8595b5ef68d92a82b38e8c76efe28dfd9beae\/Gustrow-7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448741\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/65385bb9242df615d0363497755fa3236c4980f75cf1eebc32c45cf8ea115222\/Gustrow-8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448752\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0e53ddd38f734d98de002e62d834a6f0875a1d54eeaaaa032449663498d0b656\/Gustrow-9.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448754\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1077\" height=\"729\" width_o=\"1077\" height_o=\"729\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6eaec632d809756e4895730a50cc7b0467d81fb87b5269511db90f181d47364a\/Guatrow-11.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448721\" border=\"0\" \/>\nwhere Johnson attended high school\nat the John Brinckman Gymnasium.<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4cd3f858719808183effc3f5c3c1fe25a39e617751480c7e4b029010dc7ad22a\/Gustrow-1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448722\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/71664c07cc0c29bcbc1f4ae31195233410b296b63bed87438dfef32fe8fdf7f4\/Gustrow-2.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448723\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"768\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f0bfc44e62f9afcba48a9c6cdc8b23e5ae475ca2cdb6076376f947306bd8ef6a\/Gustrow-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91448724\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow\" data-caption=\"John Brinckman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow\"\/>\n<br>In 1952 he went to the University at the Baltic port and city of Rostock,&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"3322\" height=\"4429\" width_o=\"3322\" height_o=\"4429\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/04aaf76b68cc8b62793e8530b79f8cacb3425bc26d887f1aa7c5e9f05263df18\/DSCN1308.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91417308\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rostock University\" data-caption=\"Rostock University\"\/>\nwhere he studied German language and\nliterature for two years before being barred from continuing after speaking out in\ndefence of the rights of increasingly persecuted Christian students. In\n1954-6, he continued his education at Karl-Marx-University in Leipzig, where he\nstudied under Hans Mayer, an independent Marxist literary scholar, who had\nreturned to East Germany from the west in the first years of the new state but was already\nfalling out with the authorities. He rejected their claims about\nsocialist realism and&nbsp;insisting, against official decree, that his\nstudents should study the works of modern western writers. They read&nbsp; Joyce,\nSartre and also William Faulkner, whose southern novels were to become a major\ninfluence on Johnson, who knew what it was for a nation to live with a \u201ctainted past\u201d. <br>\n<br>\nIn 1959, Johnson moved to the West, later\nclaiming that he did so for \u201creasons of hygiene\u201d but not as a refugee who might\nbe expected to denounce the GDR and all it stood for as he picked up\nsubsidies and other advantages available to those who accepted that\nform of assimilation. He published three novels over the followng six\nyears: <i>Speculations About Jakob (1959), The Third Book About\nAchim (1961), andTwo Views<\/i> (1965). These<br>\n\t bought him a prodigious\nreputation as the so called \u201cwriter (dichter) of the divided Germany\u201d, a clich\u00e9 he greatly\ndisliked. He also came under sometimes vitriolic attack from zealots on both\nsides of the political spectrum.<br>\n<br>\nJohnson addressed these difficulties by travelling out from hemmed-in West Berlin. He spent a\nyear on a West German government stipend in Rome&nbsp; in 1962, and later made\nvarious trips to America: first in 1961, again in 1965, and then for a longer\nperiod of residence in New York City from 1966-8. The latter stay was\nmade possible by the publisher Helen Wolff, who employed him to prepare a\ntextbook of post-war German literature (from both 
46sides of the. division) aimed\nat American high school students. <br>\n<br>\nJohnson had been feted as the writer who had done more than any other to create\na kind of novel capable of articulating the division of Germany into two states with\none terrible and guilty past. Conceived\nand started during the two years, 1966-1968, during which he lived in New York\nCity, the final multi-volume novel that Johnson came to Sheerness in order to complete,\nwent beyond Germany to engage a world divided by the Cold War. Each chapter of <i>Anniversaries: from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl <\/i>would take a day in the year extending from 21 August 1967 to 20 August\n1968, and it would be written as experienced by Gesine Cresspahl and her ten-year\nold daughter Marie in New York City. Structured as a conversation between\nthe two, the narrative would proceed through the events of that\nmomentous year: the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the\nassassination of Kennedy etc. It would also explore the longer historical\nexperience of the Cresspahl family as it\u2019s generations had lived through the\ntraumas and crimes of the twentieth century in Mecklenburg and elsewhere.&nbsp; <br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"4188\" height=\"4605\" width_o=\"4188\" height_o=\"4605\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ef69a553f812765886d4de4d91ceed204007295ed2e759c2d50943bfaeb3f49\/Fig-9.1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89015462\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UJ at Michael Hamburger&rsquo;s house, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 1966 (photo: R. Hamburger)\" data-caption=\"UJ at Michael Hamburger\u2019s house, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 1966 (photo: R. Hamburger)\"\/>\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"768\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cda492de2f3e4e805d97ba0a02730dd10bc4ebb127cf24bf7ad1cad0d6d0bd5e\/773A9505-1BB9-45A9-BBCA-8429FA04E35C_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89493101\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Literaturhaous Uwe Johnson, Kl&uuml;tz, Mecklenburg\" data-caption=\"Literaturhaous Uwe Johnson, Kl\u00fctz, Mecklenburg\"\/>\n\n<br>\nHaving started work on this massive novel in\nNew York City, Johnson continued after his return to Berlin. Suhrkamp published\nthe first volume in 1970, the second in 1971 and the third in 1974. It was\nin order to complete the fourth and final volume that Johnson then decided\nto remove himself, his wife and their daughter from an increasingly disruptive&nbsp; life in West Berlin and resettle in England. His migration\nwas made possible by the Swiss writer\nMax Frisch, who offered to lend Johnson the money he would need to buy a house in England where he could concentrate on his work. Having chosen a property on the Isle of Sheppey, he took care to\nensure that his neighbours knew very little about him. He would remain in\nSheerness for nearly a decade, moving into 26 Marine Parade with his wife and\ndaughter towards the end of 1974 and remaining there until his death, aged 49,\nin February 1984. &nbsp;<br>\n\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n<img width=\"1136\" height=\"543\" width_o=\"1136\" height_o=\"543\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/610c76151671fa826f2e8af810e98324597023165edb00d3147c9727fbe6a803\/Uwe-Johnson-am-Inselsee-Guestrow-1953-F.jpg\" data-mid=\"90090827\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UJ overlooking the Inselsee, G&uuml;strow, 1953 (photo: Heinz Lehmbecker)\" data-caption=\"UJ overlooking the Inselsee, G\u00fcstrow, 1953 (photo: Heinz Lehmbecker)\"\/>\n<br>\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e8140fa8fdc9a7eea2784fbc52142eb0666d0e66b605fbe484522f1cd0acfd93\/IMG_2799-1-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93189052\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Meadow and woods near Rosenhagen, Mecklenburgh, 31 May 2016 (a landscape of the kind Johnson would keep stacked up in the &quot;cellar of memories&quot; that was his basement office in Sheerness)\" data-caption=\"Meadow and woods near Rosenhagen, Mecklenburgh, 31 May 2016 (a landscape of the kind Johnson would keep stacked up in the &quot;cellar of memories&quot; that was his basement office in Sheerness)\"\/>\n\n\t\n<br><br>\n\t\n\t<img width=\"3050\" height=\"1715\" width_o=\"3050\" height_o=\"1715\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0182b9e77a38f7377e6a51419c8215a099e179b306f63baaca7c53064bec5e03\/Sheppey-scene--nr-Queenborough.JPG\" data-mid=\"108078365\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough\" data-caption=\"Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough\"\/><br><h5>Sheppey scene, between Rushenden Hill and Queenborough<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n\t\n\t<h6>Two Memorials to the Dead<br>\n of the Great War&nbsp;<br>\n(1914-18)<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7aca726df247077ed3a635ae05c02bd2e4671229e66a8be71028794571e6d9fc\/Hovering-Angel.jpg\" data-mid=\"92766076\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ernst Barlach, Hovering Angel, G&uuml;strow Cathedral\" data-caption=\"Ernst Barlach, Hovering Angel, G\u00fcstrow Cathedral\"\/>\n<br><h5>Barlach\u2019s non-militaristic memorial was commissioned in 1926 and hangs in G\u00fcstrow Cathedral. Johnson wrote a dissertation on Barlach \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barlach-haus.de\/en\/museum\/collection\/\">who lived in G\u00fcstrow<\/a> and was among the first artists to be declared \u201cdegenerate\u201d by the Nazis \u2014 while studying in Leipzig, in the fifties.&nbsp; He had a cast of Barlach\u2019s carving of two <a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/sculptures\/figurative-sculptures\/ernst-barlach-ernst-barlach-sculpture-schlaffende-vagabunden-sleeping-drifters-1912\/id-a_127536\/\">\u201cSleeping Vagabonds\u201d<\/a> in his house at Sheerness.<\/h5>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t<br>\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n<img width=\"665\" height=\"1182\" width_o=\"665\" height_o=\"1182\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9ed79d3c7e970c0d80b49227550798d539675b3360f78d8d2706cc82da1d4940\/232BAD63-452D-44EE-93D9-D9F1CEBD28E4_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91330345\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<h5>Sheerness\u2019s memorial to serving men and civilian dockyard workers lost in the Great War, as photographed on 26 July 2013. The picture at the base shows Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered by Islamists at Woolwich seven weeks earlier. Johnson used this monument as an orientation point for visitors making their way to his house from the railway station opposite.<\/h5>\n\t\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Man, Reef or \u201cthe Brazen Edge <br>\nof Our Crazy World\u201d?<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/65fbfdb5c8d875125c400545748e6d0c623cc334d01933064aa17e681d35e9d5\/IMG_2986.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89956936\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Wieland F&ouml;rster, portrait stele of Uwe Johnson, outside John Brinkman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow, 2006\" data-caption=\"Wieland F\u00f6rster, portrait stele of Uwe Johnson, &lt;br&gt;outside John Brinkman Gymnasium, G\u00fcstrow, 2006\"\/>\n\n\t\n<img width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" width_o=\"2048\" height_o=\"3072\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ec54166ed058c73892cf94034fdf9c8aef98081bdffca82f18271218deeafeaf\/IMG_2987.jpg\" data-mid=\"90620213\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Easter Island Man (Whelan&rsquo;s Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness)\" data-caption=\"Easter Island Man (Whelan\u2019s Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness)\"\/>\n<br>\n\n\n\t\n\t\n<h5>As friends and acquaintances in Germany already knew, Johnson could be a challenging man: volatile and 
46yet blunt too, and sometimes completely inaccessible. The initially East German writer and politician, Gerhard Zwerenz, described him as \u201ca statue of lost cultures\u201d like the \u201cinscrutable monoliths\u201d of Easter Island. After visiting the Johnsons shortly after their arrival in Sheerness, Gunter Kunert looked back to glimpse him waving from the doorstep: a teetering \u201ccolossus\u201d who might at any moment fall and break over his own wife and daughter. Though a unique example of the type, \u201cCharles\u201d\n was by no means the first brazened-off twentieth century man to take refuge on the Isle of Sheppey.<\/h5>\n\t\n<br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h6>The Bush of Memory<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490853307?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\" data-scale=\"100\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h5>Fischland, Staten Island, Isle of Sheppey?<\/h5>\n\n\t<br>\n\t\n<br>\n<h5>Johnson arrived in England from West Berlin, but he came with memories of other places too:&nbsp; the flat Baltic landscapes of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, to be sure, but also New York \u2014 a city that stood at the centre of <i>Anniversaries,<\/i> the four-volume novel he would eventually complete in England. &nbsp;<br><br>While living on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side&nbsp; in 1968, Johnson had written and read the text for <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/summerinthecity\">\u201dSummer in the City\u201d<\/a>, a film&nbsp; by the German-born American director Christian Blackwood for West German television.<\/h5>\n\t\n\n<br>\n\t\n\t<img width=\"738\" height=\"540\" width_o=\"738\" height_o=\"540\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d4450097c11184578ec654b790ba0c4a96db3a7baeb1ccbc974fc4ca3f626ede\/Fig-9.3.png\" data-mid=\"89890214\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"65\" alt=\"Missing caption\" data-caption=\"Missing caption\"\/>\n\t\n<br>\n<h5>\n\t\n\tBlackwood\u2019s original idea was to show Johnson talking with people as he led the camera around the Upper West Side he had come to know while living in an apartment building on Riverside Drive. He eventually decided against appearing in the film, instead providing Blackwood with recommended locations and writing the text he then read as the film\u2019s commentary.&nbsp; In this he&nbsp; praises the activism and the diversity of the \u201cslum\u201d he would, in <i>Anniveraries,<\/i>&nbsp; liken to a mobile jellyfish slithering about among the brownstones. He remains silent when Blackwood takes his camera into the transvestite world.<br>\n\t\n\t\n<\/h5><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t<h6>The Island<\/h6><br>\n\n<img width=\"2721\" height=\"1469\" width_o=\"2721\" height_o=\"1469\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7e19d3c125a82bd012d11e4a154bfa4cab4ce9b1cc595c98bbdb160b821535ca\/IMG_0921-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"90982169\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Isle of Sheppey from Bellevue Road, Whitstable\" data-caption=\"The Isle of Sheppey from Bellevue Road, Whitstable\"\/>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cI am reliably informed about a place where it seems to be no coincidence that a cul-de-sac in this country is not called that, or a <i>dead-end street<\/i>, but a <i>blind alley<\/i>. That would already be something\u201d <br>\n\u2014 UJ, letter to Max Frisch, 4 August 1974<br><br>\n\u201cThe chalky, swampy fields on the island are really not at all <i>Garden of England<\/i> (if indeed any tourist can stand this smug catchphrase any longer than from Dover to Canterbury)\u201d<\/h5>\n\t\n\n<br>\n \n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"3227\" height=\"2026\" width_o=\"3227\" height_o=\"2026\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ed5930cd0a55481c30765453e037eaf185540ca89df901357346f2f932cc6d48\/North-Kent-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87389178\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;Everything is perfect - even the Road is passable - and as hard as rock.&rdquo; &ldquo;Johnson&rdquo; to Mrs Miller Valentine&rsquo;s postcard c. 1955\" data-caption=\"\u201cEverything is perfect - even the Road is passable - and as hard as rock.\u201d \u201cJohnson\u201d to Mrs Miller Valentine\u2019s postcard c. 1955\"\/>\n<img width=\"2847\" height=\"1640\" width_o=\"2847\" height_o=\"1640\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1225df7a3985e25a84671af04a67f870f1e72f9c6c1f6
46ab32976257a1e7cb696\/IMG_0124.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87632326\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3191\" height=\"2049\" width_o=\"3191\" height_o=\"2049\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/79d8bb66e578d39126eec6a14eacf9e46b28658de969b1e01da504711026da73\/Sheppey--copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87389055\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;I&rsquo;m enjoying myself trying to put the garden to rights as well as mixing cement for Harry. It&rsquo;s a lark.&rdquo; Hankie to Milly, Valentine&rsquo;s postcard, c. 1965\" data-caption=\"\u201cI\u2019m enjoying myself trying to put the garden to rights as well as mixing cement for Harry. It\u2019s a lark.\u201d Hankie to Milly, Valentine\u2019s postcard, c. 1965\"\/>\n<img width=\"3204\" height=\"2069\" width_o=\"3204\" height_o=\"2069\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b9a74e5dfa7c489a9083590ed582b4406eccecc3439c61e74afcdc53f9da6e74\/Scan-4-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87389279\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t<h5>Not always a lark:<br>cement on Sheppey<\/h5>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<br>\nThe Isle of Sheppey is a small,\nlow-lying and watery place of some thirty-six\nsquare miles in extent. <br><br>It lies on the eastern shore of\nthe&nbsp; Medway, where this no longer naval river flows into the&nbsp; outer\nreaches of the Thames Estuary. <br><br>On its western side, it emerges from\nthe water, in a marshy and noncommittal kind of way, not far\nfrom a bone-strewn mudbank called \u201cDead Man\u2019s Island\u201d. <br><br>To\nthe south, once you get past the landfill site at Ladies Hole\nPoint, the island is dominated by marshes and separated from the\nmainland by a tidal strait known as the Swale. <br><br>The\nnorthern shore is formed by a ridge of London Clay, which&nbsp; emerges near Sheerness-on-Sea and rises as it proceeds towards the eastern shore of the island, reach\u00a7ing its highest point\nof some seventy-six metres above sea level at Minster, a village\nat the early Christian site where St Sexburga,&nbsp; widow of the Anglo-Saxon&nbsp; King Eorcenberht of Kent, established a convent in 664 AD.<br>\n\n\n<br>Such basic facts\nmust be allowed, and yet the \u201cIsle\nof Sheep\u201d, as Sheppey\u2019s originally Saxon name \u201cSceapig\u201d\ndescribes it, remains variously suggestive in\nits separation from the mainland.<br><br>Not just an island, it is also a strange oscillation, a place where paradise keeps collapsing into the bleakest kind of slum.  &nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"452\" height=\"384\" width_o=\"452\" height_o=\"384\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ae11cd2b6c78904f84844fbd3ca6358d85f9f682bc4e89129ef3af32eece2fc6\/phone.png\" data-mid=\"87145349\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"72\"\/><br>\n<br>\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t<br>\n<img width=\"3185\" height=\"2113\" width_o=\"3185\" height_o=\"2113\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d1dabe478bc3b4d22f747b4ddeeb32282c143abf83254b36ba1d4446edcba317\/The-Ship-on-Shore-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"87288099\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" alt=\"The Ship on Shore, Sheerness  &ldquo;Having bad weather here,&rdquo; postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913.\" data-caption=\"The Ship on Shore, Sheerness  \u201cHaving bad weather here,\u201d postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913.\"\/>\n\t\n\tThe Ship on Shore, Sheerness<br>\n \u201cHaving bad weather here,\u201d postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913. This pub grotto, was assembled from a salvaged ship, said&nbsp; to have run aground loaded with barrels that turned out, disappointingly for some,&nbsp; to be filled with Portland cement.<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4cc817b176e5448578f516402743cacdae9d9525ce5b03cd47bacae0575a5508\/0E0243B5-C566-45E4-88A4-AA1514A86B5C_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91210601\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Bethel Chaoel, Blue Town, now 0art of Andre Whelan's &quot;gnome factory&quot; (aka&quot; Whelan's Garden Ornaments)\" data-caption=\"The Bethel Chaoel, Blue Town, now 0art of Andre Whelan's &quot;
46gnome factory&quot; (aka&quot; Whelan's Garden Ornaments)\"\/><br>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/be332483eeada42c1056f12e5b847dbae47821d6860d28c0d29f640901e14cae\/IMG_1112.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88179446\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/><br><img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/56bc4be819b7ceb58991ab99470d7a2266aa5373476c85fad561f5e20a76bc5f\/IMG_1113.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88179477\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/>Shipwright preacher William Shrubsole\u2019s Bethel Chapel, Blue Town, Sheerness, now part of Whelan\u2019s Garden Ornaments (aka \u201cthe gnome factory\u201d)\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1738\" height=\"1288\" width_o=\"1738\" height_o=\"1288\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3bec965ae98c4a32b2253b77f9a832a664cde0d713a4b5f6e6a2fb01d23a2c99\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.10.33.png\" data-mid=\"89524498\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/> Definitely Not Berlin.<br>\n \u201cRusticated\u201d sea wall<b>, <\/b>designed by Garnham Wright Associates&nbsp; and built along Marine Parade in 1983-4.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f27cb4be599ae2e4ebc1b310063de5cd0d1de060d865435b1dc3e9c380df3036\/A5C28ECF-4974-4CD1-B6CF-6C3EA9B56E34_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88696027\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" alt=\"HMGov, Sheppey Prison Cluster, Eastchurch\" data-caption=\"HMGov, Sheppey Prison Cluster, Eastchurch\"\/>\n<br>\n\n\t<br>\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cCall it England or call it Sheppey, the island looks tiny on conventional maps: little more than a mudbank about eight miles across at its broadest point, and eleven in length. Those, however, are not the only dimensions that matter. While writing this book, I have learned to sympathise with the man from Gillingham, eight or so miles upstream along the Medway, who decided \u2014 a full six years before the Brexit referendum of 2016 \u2014 to buy himself a small motorboat via the internet and put to sea with the aim of navigating his way around Great Britain...<br>\n\n<br>After studying a road atlas, he concluded that he only had to keep the land on his right-hand side in order to end the first stretch of his journey at Southampton. Having proceeded on this assumption for a day and a half, he ran out of fuel and found nhimself stuck in the mud near some tidal marshes. The lifeboat that came to rescue this slow voyager from his predicament guided him to the quayside at Queenborough where an officer of the coastguard service briskly informed him that he had all the time been circling the Isle of Sheppey: \u2018He had no idea of the magnitude of the journey he was undertaking\u201d\u2019<br>\n<br>Since this unidentified Englishman \u2014 he was, as I recall, rudely dismissed as a \u201cdopey sailor\u201d by the island\u2019s newspaper \u2014 insisted on resuming his journey once refuelled, we may assume that he too had by then seen enough to know not just that small can be large, but also that life isn\u2019t necessarily at its richest when it is predictable or easy.\u201d (<i>Sea View<\/i>, pp, 8-9)<\/h5><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n<h6>Sheppey,&nbsp; more or less West to East<\/h6><br>\n\n\t\n\n\n\t\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ea6b812deb04bcb94560deb8e033686c535ac7a3e861f1650f961ce50995adf2\/IMG_0938.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88181787\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Looking West across Dead Man's Island and the Medway from Rushenden Hill   \" data-caption=\"Looking West across Dead Man's Island and the Medway from Rushenden Hill   \"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/41ee1e7ccc444f44f6f203dc9fb364e37336c5cb65b5dd9a3d1c0e5ef9044853\/9B860873-C2B8-4D1D-83EF-BD80C12851AD_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645684\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Towards Ladies Hole Point\" data-caption=\"Towards Ladies Hole Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4133c52df9329154f85ae68c94925912da0251f8a7d315da9be96ae4340eb24a\/IMG_0872-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099653\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Queenborough, from the (non-existent) path to  Ladies Hole Point\" data-caption=\"Queenborough, from the (non-existent) path to  Ladies Hole Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ae91af30dc318dde4196bbb44d43b6ff6c3d9b2782442266ff0e87c84627541\/2EB0287C-B662-4BDE-9D21-E6DD14BB640A_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645694\" border=\"0\" alt=\"South of Queenborough\" data-caption=\"South of Queenborough\"\/>\n<img width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" width_o=\"1920\" height_o=\"1080\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5f3cfb3c6b2274747916186c013d8d99d67b66702f1d944b82c15cc58014e283\/HFY6UPPP20VIPCNDBAAG.jpg\" data-mid=\"87934003\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Sheppey Crossing, 2016\" data-caption=\"The Sheppey Crossing, 2016\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/427f9089cf8d19661b3478d7f7bf78274a9849c18153f97e6a05ee453dd9e237\/IMG_1410.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87824532\" border=\"0\" alt=\"King&rsquo;s Hill Farm, Elmley Marshes\" data-caption=\"King\u2019s Hill Farm, Elmley Marshes\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/72b382f7bc291532e1b56a1491f7029896b794e3ca4c2feb175bff959f74
4663d7\/IMG_1199.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647622\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Windblown debris, on fence surrounding the former Admiralty dockyard, Sheerness (summer)\" data-caption=\"Windblown debris, on fence surrounding the former Admiralty dockyard, Sheerness (summer)\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cacfc0d8dab5e931804d7ae25d7ca7ae7eab6b3d26cf855ccf52d9a71204d7cf\/IMG_1200.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88098550\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Northeast corner of Sir John Rennie's Georgian dockyard wall, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Northeast corner of Sir John Rennie's Georgian dockyard wall, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0e07075a17bb85c6d495a9fb158b2d38840d3e97bda283ad1c22443280095037\/IMG_1205.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88098449\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Martello towers, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Martello towers, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" width_o=\"3024\" height_o=\"4032\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/31e0f4d9bf323198fa2a287fc1966d446a344b47abaed5e00d911a3366ce4ddc\/IMG_1291.JPG\" data-mid=\"89119149\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Weathered lion, inside dockyard\" data-caption=\"Weathered lion, inside dockyard\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8c88e76ebbdbc978e634af7ff72cecc4fc8aee9a68d5abbf7fb32d54e5d0d573\/IMG_1567.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826606\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/949b358379a312a0406924ddbf235028497450f7af825517bf2e299c3b7ba98d\/IMG_1566.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826605\" border=\"0\" alt=\"19th century model of Admiralty Dockyard, Sheerness (in storage near Portsmouth)\" data-caption=\"19th century model of Admiralty Dockyard, Sheerness (in storage near Portsmouth)\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c9a30d7ad2f505734aea7c16ef1cbc74071cf902ffe5c05000fa238ff58ac820\/1E7D6B01-2BAE-43E9-A5AE-38DA2791B8D3_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645132\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Avenue leading from dockyard to Dock Church\" data-caption=\"Avenue leading from dockyard to Dock Church\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bb48fba05404725a0709c7a373b55d07b45ceef98e9bb741a1faad8d04f13565\/0DE52454-AB8F-4E19-9EDC-CEEB7FB56F84_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299609\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Admiralty dockyard, now Peel Ports.\" data-caption=\"Admiralty dockyard, now Peel Ports.\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bf6688c2077cabe226727164b6a2d6c054591307f14ed468ba6e69fd7d1540ec\/654FCBB4-E349-4170-9DF8-2576FA5482D3_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87827088\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Same debris, same fence - in winter, three years later \" data-caption=\"Same debris, same fence - in winter, three years later \"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1b1946f1f94ba07693305ff4abc74f0d696eda6f4e87c207a72a3087e5ba0ac1\/Drain--Blue-Town.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88104652\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Drain, Blue Town, Sheerness. Drains were life-savers in mid-19th century Sheerness. Sea View, 229-232 &amp; 250-258.\" data-caption=\"Drain, Blue Town, Sheerness. Drains were life-savers in mid-19th century Sheerness. Sea View, 229-232 &amp; 250-258.\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b3afb20106b6ca5292a97dae012ed31f220c998f66a447104749d8b6ff1133a3\/IMG_1121.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826145\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Footballers etc., Whelan's Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Footballers etc., Whelan's Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1742\" height=\"934\" width_o=\"1742\" height_o=\"934\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0af443b7e5b4e059110ac3d5a78f81f5a76451514413d736a45a0cc40010d610\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.05.18.png\" data-mid=\"89523353\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Diamond Jubilee decorations, the Albion, Blue Town High Street, 2012\" data-caption=\"Diamond Jubilee decorations, the Albion, Blue Town High Street, 2012\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cddbcfffd25737a78ca56ecf0d5eff49ca903c69f1761dcb004fbca0be98b427\/E62C7952-D4AB-41A7-AC87-B83775F95233_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826979\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Crescent, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"The Crescent, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1072\" height=\"861\" width_o=\"1072\" height_o=\"861\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7fff7057ea9396122183687860f3c8211a8660c10633598aceff2f01254fc522\/thumbnail_IMG_2581.jpg\" data-mid=\"89107531\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Conservative Club, Broadway, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Conservative Club, Broadway, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8a5583a881c8bdda682f326b535548ae4e9f9f55d34dd7ce64c4fa8d30d33715\/DB8AF0BE-1D3F-42F9-9606-84B10D62C8A8_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88696239\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Victoria Working Men&rsquo;s Club, Broadway, Sheerness, 1882\" data-caption=\"Victoria Working Men\u2019s Club, Broadway, Sheerness, 1882\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c38d18ba5549d454a48f0eaf739536fbe6442325070290652dffb77f5bfa6497\/26F44F2E-283C-49F1-846E-71CF19964977_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87644442\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Across the estuary\" data-caption=\"Across the estuary\"\/>\n<img width=\"724\" height=\"1086\" width_o=\"724\" height_o=\"1086\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/572db02c88bc58291793a474caa21458c5cf3ac7331f956ddfdfa71d968ddb95\/ADD8151C-DC6A-455B-9F4C-7251E5BC1FDB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87644405\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Seafront residues, Marine Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Seafront residues, Marine Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2f84d0caaa33086ffd85d1360d30db6f98f5bb9f95d5f8ad1827f004ab7e062f\/DSCN1113-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645752\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Terrace, Marine Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Neptune Terrace, Marine Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1903\" height=\"2012\" width_o=\"1903\" height_o=\"2012\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b77c7b7fb00ab76f7091713353014107ccc778c18d9e2ca73812692d404db640\/IMG_1150-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87644998\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Terrace, detail\" data-caption=\"Neptune Terrace, detail\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/59cf807b0e1ec0150a23c998b99c6
46700128f36e138621d12dcbe0edcbc9d571b\/F7743C2E-84F1-4F45-BBB7-B09AE9AF1BEF_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87827026\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Johnson's chosen street\" data-caption=\"Johnson's chosen street\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/120bd4510ecb9b6ada190024802484245d1d3bd7e486d7b04a2d0d4889a5a8d2\/F72A9032-1FC1-4ADD-8700-3123838A2D49_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645067\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (before renovation)\" data-caption=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (before renovation)\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bd44921bdfaa721cee34b8e410ac36031386dcab4bb8f4af0fcad274fe94d7bf\/IMG_1396.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88183972\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (after renovation)\" data-caption=\"Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (after renovation)\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/945be420853122b2a2ed10248975681ee757839d5c8b551d0e90f59042fc489f\/1BCABBC7-6CD9-4835-8721-8CF6215E5C47_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87933696\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheerness Ape, Marine Town\" data-caption=\"Sheerness Ape, Marine Town\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/42038f65e0b374dd4f03d83b52924cbebc83526b7b186c1a80c52f14eac43406\/836B997C-6403-46CA-85FB-861275FFB66C_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492925\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Figurehead (replica) of HMS Forte, sea defence wall, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\" data-caption=\"Figurehead (replica) of HMS Forte, sea defence wall, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3e74b0f655a1261c94445f0973b2405cdce272ac06b3bda2acf867d618f2e2b2\/5E1A039C-8ADB-48EA-8991-B799E356E3D2_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87933628\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Barton&rsquo;s Point Coastal Park\" data-caption=\"Barton\u2019s Point Coastal Park\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cf6b9d73866d125eccda9769adfd72ab15c5145dfb3aea0493bbcfdc5514f734\/DAD94F08-8F17-493A-A76F-7FD2E639B9BA_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89774059\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Looking East towards Whitstable and Herne Bay from Warden Point\" data-caption=\"Looking East towards Whitstable and Herne Bay from Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9e0ebf3f137ffede3627ef8d58871163b1d1ae17f9c3c6d08ac203c5a0ed0efa\/IMG_1160.jpeg\" data-mid=\"94302542\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Warden Manor, home to TocH and later to the Transalpine Redemptorists, who had their Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary here (1988-1994)\" data-caption=\"Warden Manor, home to TocH and later to the Transalpine Redemptorists, who had their Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary here (1988-1994)\"\/>\n<img width=\"3207\" height=\"2881\" width_o=\"3207\" height_o=\"2881\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/db7db1fcdd7ef0d72d68393bc3727e3ac88eced0533624817de903b012fa9cf1\/DSCN1142.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87645863\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Notices from a freeborn Englishman, Warden\" data-caption=\"Notices from a freeborn Englishman, Warden\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0291a4f51104dd5ec43bbaec5064d85ad3e33c84a7860f620b6621f086a32089\/CAD43E44-448A-4EF7-9E12-6732152BEC3B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099248\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;Managed retreat&rdquo; at Warden Springs Caravan Park\" data-caption=\"\u201cManaged retreat\u201d at Warden Springs Caravan Park\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/062385e67b9dfcbe05c177268ae93ae70fbdd9af29f881046cfc7edfc7e79f6f\/IMG_2598-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099234\" border=\"0\" alt=\"End of the road once known as &quot;Mud Row&quot; at Warden Point\" data-caption=\"End of the road once known as &quot;Mud Row&quot; at Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2b68f6b0e222c363545cb4f3dca9b8dbdb4b25ea87366a8b9839364ab9993d68\/IMG_2599-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099235\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;Encroachments of the sea&quot;: Warden Point\" data-caption=\"&quot;Encroachments of the sea&quot;: Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9861f9dfe3e8c27893f30bbe25dadc23f18790ff3288ce7e7ea2b0915c480a7b\/IMG_2600.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099240\" border=\"0\" alt=\"End of the road at Warden Point\" data-caption=\"End of the road at Warden Point\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/82492ea998cfe3bb86b1bf04bc566240b83e12cd30cb56d06f80bf1203769228\/E38E1B13-1A1E-444A-85F7-33CBDAE6F2D9_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695301\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Warden, at Sheppey's East End\" data-caption=\"Warden, at Sheppey's East End\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/fc4e0a526312f8aa9d6273c6fc79ab86abba476593049736c3e6c90b6fb5c348\/0FB7B2DB-6C53-4E55-ABEE-5B8001DC2F70_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695367\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Leysdown. At the beginning of the 20th century, a plotland developer urged customers to imagine a fine new promenade here\" data-caption=\"Leysdown. At the beginning of the 20th century, a plotland developer urged customers to imagine a fine new promenade here\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/69c6049a115e162ee7
467bce5ff4598867e0b58df2319129cdde30c97388bf07c3\/CBF9BC59-377A-4571-A87D-DF9C5AD31154_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647696\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;Bungalettes&quot; at Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"&quot;Bungalettes&quot; at Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c4838eea58e6f5a9c8318ac93ffb0248888e0fad2303de6dd6f9ec54f59e618c\/1CE0DE66-B823-4AC0-B388-E9CCCED8E8ED_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647773\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Debris, Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"Debris, Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/b3f08a8c23a647c2b4245c7c25fd93487899da7f220c55cd1603226492553892\/51454A4A-7C85-4FED-B36C-9154C8B62BEB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647784\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Brent Geese over Shellness\" data-caption=\"Brent Geese over Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/363aee0f885ff47345b5658ff65e333836e4ec7d794fcf927dbb8716bab8c0a1\/63BE2001-4458-4A1A-BFF8-A7FF8EDB7892_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695381\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness, former control tower\" data-caption=\"Shellness, former control tower\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0d3a6e07b4c77ca2abbdf650fa8f674516699ebc1f3ce6ce43a816c4e30b1b5d\/BC6D128F-5F7D-40B1-B237-E4AF60468B0A_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87826193\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/39dd5cc6710bfb2052a1ee8c0f36d0d334c9ca7238c364bb924f3bbb73edb79e\/09F8D06A-7D04-424F-8971-BDA288C7A898_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87647789\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness\" data-caption=\"Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/20933ed15cab9694b295ab7b515d7b15c5a0a8d8f47b9332e0389b50aeef63d9\/IMG_0943.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88104658\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness, looking north from Shellness Point\" data-caption=\"Shellness, looking north from Shellness Point\"\/>\n<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><h6>\u201cHis address was Sheppey\u201d<\/h6><br><img width=\"372\" height=\"419\" width_o=\"372\" height_o=\"419\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3677da63a117eb4ca116f3ff139ae29c64bc477c5b1a07aa9e1fb7ca5d21d232\/IMG_1892.jpg\" data-mid=\"95687170\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br>\n\n<br>\n\n<h5>\n\t<i>Anopheles maculipennis<\/i> mosquito, photographed on a bedroom wall in Kent, 1918.&nbsp; this marsh-dwelling mosquito was a carrier of indigenous malaria, known as \u201cmarsh fever\u201d and \u201cague\u201d before it was scientifically identified by Sir Ronald Ross in India ain 1897.&nbsp; &nbsp;The infestations on Sheppey were particularly bad.&nbsp; At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Sheerness was described as \u201cthe most fever-ridden place in the whole of England.\u201d In the mid-nineteenth century, there was much concern about the impact of this pestilence on the fighting strength of the navy&nbsp; at Sheerness (hence the towen\u2019s heroic preoccupation with drainage at this time). The problem had long kept wealthy landowners and farmers from living on the island (many of the marshlands were run by \u201clookers\u201d who had no choice but to lieve below the \u201ccontour of death\u201d).&nbsp; I The affliction also recurred in the. twentieth century - not least after the First EWorld War, when the island\u2019s mosquitoes were reinfected by soldiers returning from overseas (<i>Sea View,<\/i> 205-7)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n\n\t <\/h5><br>\n\n<br><br><br><br><br><br><h6>\u201cIsland\u201d \u2014 the Requiem<br><\/h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h5><br>\n\n\t\n\tIn 1973\/4, a thoughtful man named Dave used to come to 5 St Radigund Street, Canterbury, where I was then living as a student. He was a friend of another resident, the singer Barbara Gaskin, and we sometimes referred to him as \u201cZiggy\u201d in honour of the stardust trailing behind him. Dave, was Dave Sinclair, former keyboardist with Matching Mole and Caravan, whose album&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<\/h5>\n\t\n\t<img width=\"422\" height=\"480\" width_o=\"422\" height_o=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c09475aefee7fbcb840c84b60452b162abb7949869c2a455f57673a456135231\/sinclair-dave-eng.jpg\" data-mid=\"91996369\" border=\"0\" \/><br><br>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kP4oxcQJzyc\">\u201cIn the Land of Grey and Pink\u201d<\/a> (1971) had taken its title from sunsets over the Isle of Sheppey. Band members had watched these fractal explosions of colour from the marshland village of Graveney, where they\u2019d foun
46d a hall in which to rehearse.&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\t\n<br><img width=\"938\" height=\"469\" width_o=\"938\" height_o=\"469\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3903cfaf1cff7899e0ad67d83bc842b91c63e65e66a2f80603d47f3663a5b7d9\/Grey-Pink0001b-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"91986127\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Caravan, In the Land of Grey and Pink, 1971\" data-caption=\"Caravan, In the Land of Grey and Pink, 1971\"\/><h2><br>\n\t\n\t<h5>Dave spent many years, including those in which the memory of \u201cprog rock\u201d was blasted into the past by the later punk sensibility, running a piano restoration business in Herne Bay. He moved to Japan in 2005 where he now lives on Yuge island, Kamijima.&nbsp; Perhaps some fleeting memory of that view over Sheppey informs his more recent song &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5r1ObdAsa7w&amp;list=RD5r1ObdAsa7w&amp;index=22\">\u201cIsland\u201d (2011)<\/a>, a simple elegy to the hopes of a lost era, here sung by Barbara Gaskin.&nbsp; Johnson, of course, knew nothing of this. Yet he was curious and, when living in America in the Sixties, he once asked the young Richard Hamburger to copy him a cassette of his favourite music.<br>\n\n\n\n <\/h5>\n\t\n<\/h2><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Island Birds<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480059413?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n\t\n\t\n<h5>Brent geese at Shellbeach<\/h5><br>\n<h5>A female flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum) tried its luck on the&nbsp; Sheppey marshes in the summer of 1873. The erratic visitor was shot by a labourer named Heathfield, who tracked it down to Sharfleet Creek on the Swale. Sheppey\u2019s firebird was claimed as a first for the country. As such, it was eviscerated and stuffed by a Mr. George Young of Sittingbourne on the mainland, and sold to a man named Dene from further inland at Tonbridge. The new owner was to receive a disappointing lesson from the superintendent of London Zoo, who revealed that the unfortunate creature was actually an escapee from his collection at Regent\u2019s Park.<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"1514\" height=\"2590\" width_o=\"1514\" height_o=\"2590\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c68f0145e2e973398df754af219cdcdb88baec69d163ea46c07ffad99dc2924b\/p.-118.jpg\" data-mid=\"88794051\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\" alt=\"European Flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum)\" data-caption=\"European Flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum)\"\/>\n\n\t\n<br><br><br><img width=\"1518\" height=\"848\" width_o=\"1518\" height_o=\"848\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/09ee0de545650809b476c0ddb3b02d4c9c04a44b312621fcc94a4f3e757ee734\/Screenshot-2020-12-12-at-12.03.26.png\" data-mid=\"91898846\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n\n\t\n\t\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cHe\nwalked to the door and threw it open. The sea, the sea. Grey and brown. It\nwould rain soon. It was bleak out, bleaker, if possible, than it had ever\nseemed before. What a view. Luke grimaced. What a bloody landscape!\u201d<br>\u2014 Nicola Barker, <i>Wide\nOpen<\/i> (1998) <\/h5><br><br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\t<h6>Sheppey: \u201cRural slum\u201d <br>and\/or \u201cMoral Utopia\u201d?<\/h6>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n<br>\n<h5>Johnson\u2019s first German visitors were by no means impressed by the remote, industrial, working class island on which he had chosen to live. &nbsp;<br><br>\u201cAs [Siegfried] Kunert recorded in his <i>An English Daybook<\/i> the seats inside British Rail\u2019s shabby conveyance were a poor advertisement for the attractions of \u201cSheerness-on-Sea.\u201d Their headrests were \u2018enormously patinated\u2019&nbsp; \u2014 so much so that one was stuck with white tufts of hair as if an old man had struggled to \u2018tear himself from his seat on arrival.\u2019\u201d<i>(Sea View,<\/i> p. 195)<br><br>\u201cEvery time I arrived and left, my feeling was the same: how can one live here, and how can one write here, in this run-down town, with little or no possibility of preserving what makes the outer life worth living?\u201d<br>\n<\/h5><h5>\u2014 Siegfried Unseld, Johnson\u2019s editor and publisher at Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 195)<\/h5><br>\n<h5>Helga Michie, the twin sister of the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger who had arrived in London on a Kindertransport in 1939, understood the situation differently:&nbsp;<br>\u201cHe likes it there. It reminds him of home... It\u2019s the landscape \u2014 sea, sand, marsh.\u201d<br><\/h5><h5>(<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 197)<\/h5><h5><br>For centuries, Sheerness had survived and sometimes prospered as a military town. It was created to meet the requirements both of the Admiralty dockyard, first laid out by Samuel Pepys and others&nbsp; in 1665, and of the associated army garrison installed next to it on the marshy point (the \u201cNess\u201d) overlooking the mouth of the Medway and the&nbsp; submerged sandbank that would become the naval anchorage known as the Nore. The people of the town that grew up around the dockyard had long feared their reliance on the Admiralty, and steps were also taken to establish the place as \u201cSheerness-on-Sea\u201d,&nbsp; a resort for visiting Londoners. As such, it would always struggle to match rivals like Margate, where the golden sands bore no disillusioning resemblance to shingle and&nbsp; excursionists disembarking from the steamer that had brought them from London&nbsp; didn\u2019t have to make their way through the disorderly military slum named Blue Town (\u201dWhitechapel-on-Sea\u201d) in order to get from the pier to the beach.<br><br>Johnson knew about the poverty and deprivation on Sheppey, but he didn\u2019t at all mind the absence of the shinier trappings of western life - the rampant consumerism, the displays of opulence, the bourgeois habits of thought that had never made their way over the Kingsferry Bridge from the so-called \u201cGarden of England\u201d. A longastanding scourge of the hypocrisy of the liberal middle classes, he aligned himself with the island\u2019s unemployed and came to appreciate the&nbsp; not always law-abiding solidarity of the people as they got by despite the unhelpful attentions (or neglect) of the state.&nbsp; He told one East German friend that he had discovered a \u201cmoral utopia\u201d in this English backwater, where many of his friends saw only misery, abandonment and bleak deprivation.<\/h5>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n<img width=\"1312\" height=\"1048\" width_o=\"1312\" height_o=\"1048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a4f353a1f62f8ff3125e4a3a2fbdf1527d2f54964db63f1e2b530b9d3cfb9a9b\/dig18106-z2rimuxdgwtviuedirbn9n30.jpg\" data-mid=\"87938724\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Abraham Ortelius, map of Thomas More&rsquo;s Utopia, c. 1595\" data-caption=\"Abraham Ortelius, map of Thomas More\u2019s Utopia, c. 1595\"\/>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<img width=\"600\" height=\"479\" width_o=\"600\" height_o=\"479\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/06be0fdd1860e543e773faf33270a218349b4c63f2ee9a65dc2c0cdf770c3812\/sheppey_resize.jpg\" data-mid=\"91287588\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Isle of Sheppey, from Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1797\" data-caption=\"The Isle of Sheppey, from Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1797\"\/>\n<br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h6>The Past<\/h6>\n<br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"2171\" height=\"1675\" width_o=\"2171\" height_o=\"1675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cee0f6a10614b3cf8b08e69c8dc8ce66579c0c04ba98361f64e2b489f43f64e2\/IMG_0612-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"89290321\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&ldquo;Benevolence&rdquo; carnival at the Royal Hotel, Sheerness. photo: Robert Hider, circa 1890\" data-caption=\"\u201cBenevolence\u201d carnival at the Royal Hotel, Sheerness. photo: Robert Hider, circa 1890\"\/>\n<br>\n<img width=\"2864\" height=\"2230\" width_o=\"2864\" height_o=\"2230\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9e0a222a85762ac81ea0639ab136505110b3437fe4c5e715510ae9c181b19ade\/Fig-66.jpg\" data-mid=\"89769731\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Franz Heinrich L&ouml;sel, &ldquo;10 X 8 Photograph group of portion of Crew of H.M.S. &ldquo;Victoria&rdquo; taken on forecastle of said ship&rdquo; at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian &amp;nbsp;
46Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible man, who wouldn&rsquo;t even permiot lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Merditerranean, with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893\" data-caption=\"Franz Heinrich L\u00f6sel, \u201c10 X 8 Photograph group of portion of Crew of H.M.S. \u201cVictoria\u201d taken on forecastle of said ship\u201d at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian &amp;nbsp;Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible man, who wouldn\u2019t even permiot lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Merditerranean, with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893\"\/><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFranz Heinrich L\u00f6sel, \u201c10 X 8 Photograph group of\nportion of Crew of H.M.S. \u201cVictoria\u201d taken on forecastle of said ship\u201d at Sheerness, a year or two before this battleship suffered a collision with HMS Camperdown due to a catastrophic error by the Etonian Vice-Admiral, Sir George Tryon (an inflexible commander, who wouldn\u2019t even permit lifeboats to be lowered in time), and sank to the bottom of the Mediterranean with a loss of 358 crewmen, on 22 June 1893.\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"5005\" height=\"3963\" width_o=\"5005\" height_o=\"3963\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5502dd53bee4cfb594130760ac9f8d92d4a5ea1890fa57969fbcb7bd53fac6a9\/Fig-25-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"89296722\" border=\"0\" \/>Shellbeach, August 1933.&nbsp; This photograph was taken after the 17 year old Jean Chesterton was killed by misdirected machine-gun fire from an RAF training plane, while rowing out with her sister (theirs is the boat nearest the sea) to recover a beach ball from the wind.<br>\n<br>\n<h1>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1008\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1008\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bfd6a6e6246a569f4477c98c1ddd5a32b297549bc81e1a1780bb7a1e1526d3dd\/Fig-28.jpg\" data-mid=\"89296875\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Former Fireman Neville Wood fries an egg with the help of his assistant Francis Batsoni, Variety at Leysdown Holiday Camp, 1957\" data-caption=\"Former Fireman Neville Wood fries an egg with the help of his assistant Francis Batsoni, Variety at Leysdown Holiday Camp, 1957\"\/>\n<\/h1>\n\t\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br><br><br><br><br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Minster Abbey and its afterlife<br><br>\n<img width=\"2785\" height=\"1591\" width_o=\"2785\" height_o=\"1591\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ca5358f0a8a657213816f4e70c4cee835f4f19c66862bbc5c60bf63f8e2d030\/IMG_3776.jpeg\" data-mid=\"107941875\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h5>Stephen Fry once suggested that the people who lived in the past were really just \u201cus with different clothes on\u201d.&nbsp; Looking at this ancient Green Man in the Church of Mary and&nbsp; St Sexburga, Minster, we may doubt it ...&nbsp;<\/h5><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h5>Sacked by Vikings and dissolved by Henry VIII but the church and gatehouse of St. Sexburga\u2019s abbey are&nbsp; still standing on the island\u2019s highest ground at&nbsp; Minster-on-Sea:<br><\/h5>\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ccc977ed6a9aff52eb1fd8820694add281c289d2bca0ca90f85266b4e620d91f\/281C13E6-C7E2-4151-96B7-F39B451E6CAA_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89235809\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n\t<br><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e56018be582db839cdbeca82943aad83936d269c962ee4916afd881083db2688\/80B1C021-AA42-4291-A0EA-77D87098C33B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89287864\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\t<br><br>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br>\n<br>\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br><br><img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ecbe65407f37b35a6f9507e2e0ba237b6d79b10db32d85a4506ae96c3be2caa0\/DSCN0832.JPG\" data-mid=\"107950997\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Minster Abbey from read bedroom of Uwe Johnson's house at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Minster Abbey from read bedroom of Uwe Johnson's house at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness\"\/><br><h5> Minster Abbey, from top rear bedroom of Uwe Johnson\u2019s House at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness... <\/h5><br><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<img width=\"3199\" height=\"2062\" width_o=\"3199\" height_o=\"2062\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a8b5afebb9364528239ac8439a222d310126b564455ab02e3796394a821d0770\/Scan-17.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92615351\" border=\"0\" \/><br><h5> \u201cI shall be glad when I get a job sooner or later\u201d. Postcard&nbsp; with \u201cBirdseye View of Minster\u201d, postmarked&nbsp; 3 June 1909.<\/h5>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br>\n\t\n<br><br><br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Women\u2019s Suffrage: a modern&nbsp; cause lands at Minster,&nbsp; September 1909<br><br>\n<img width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" width_o=\"4032\" height_o=\"3024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9c0fda7eba620f4155843b37ab941315f5a691639d4828ce9c9fe220b65c1f3a\/I
46MG_3779.jpeg\" data-mid=\"107948379\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h5>&nbsp;\u201cHere on a grassy triangle outside the churchyard, a group of about fifty villagers and visitors assembled on Wednesday 11th, to hear the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell [the American reformer, Alyse Pearsall Smith] speak on Women\u2019s Suffrage . . . It was, as far as I know, the first Women\u2019s Suffrage meeting ever held in Sheppey island, and no more appropriate spot could have been chosen for the occasion.&nbsp; Among the famous Saxon women of Kent, beginning with the Christian Queen Bertha, two of the most distirnguished belonged to Sheppey. Sexburga, queen and saint, to whom Minster Abbey Church is dedicated, was daughter to Annas, king of the East Anglians, wife to Ercombert, King of Kent, and mother to two succeeding Kings of Kent. She founded and ruled over a monastery for Benedictine nuns on the hill at Minster. In later life she became Abbess of Ely, and was succeeded in Minster by her daughter Princess Ermenilda, who in her turn became Abbes of Ely\u201d Kate Ralegh in&nbsp;<i>Women\u2019s Franchise,<\/i> 2 September 1909 (<i>Sea View,<\/i> pp. 174-80).<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5105cdec22c15387720054f358bf7a22cbbf7b14aa1078c00a4a33fa091f164e\/8965537A-EF55-4481-A61E-3BB7024364D4_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"107949433\" border=\"0\" \/><\/h5><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<h5><\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Long Lost Family: a Successful Week on the Isle of Sheppey, June 1938<\/h6><br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h5><i>\u201cA\nWholesale Imposter.\u2014<\/i>In\nthe beginning of last week, a man called upon Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, at the\npreventive station, Queenborough, representing himself as a relation; and was,\nin consequence, liberally entertained by them. On Wednesday, he discovered\nanother relation among the military in Sheerness garrison; and a subscription\nwas made for him among the soldiers, amounting to 7s. 6d.&nbsp; Afterwards, he found a cousin, a poor man, in\nBlue Town, with whom he resided a day. On the same night, about ten o\u2019clock, he\nfound another cousin, a poor man (Mr. Hayse), who was going to bed when he\narrived; but upon the arrival of a cousin, they cooked a supper, and\nentertained him to the best of their ability; and afterwards gave up to him\ntheir own bed. On Saturday, he found a cousin Adams, with whom he partook a\ngreedy meal of nearly two pounds of meat, and a pot of porter, &amp;c. Here he\ncarried his deceptions as far as to kiss Mrs. Adams, who shed copious tears\nupon the occasion of the discovery of a relative. The same day, he found cousin\nCurry, with whom he partook of ham &amp;c., for tea, and obtained 2s 3d from\nMrs C., to pay the pier dues for his luggage; having nothing, as he said, but\ndoubloons by him, which he could not get changed. The same night, he gave a\nsecond visit to Queenborough, and found out cousin Morris; but obtained nothing\nfrom him. He appeared, wherever he went, to be quite at home, by looking into\ncupboards, and dealing out apples &amp;c. from them to the children. The\nimposter resided in Sheppey altogether a week; after which, he appears to have\nfound out the mother of a New South Wales convict, near Sittingbourne, from\nwhom he pretended to have brought a letter. He next introduced himself to the\nclerk of a brewery at Chatham, from whom he obtained 7 s. This is the last\nplace we heard of him. He is about 5ft. 6in. in height\u201460 years of age. He had\non a brown coat, grey trowsers and long waistcoat\u2014the whole considerably worse\nfor wear.\u201d<\/h5><h5>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  \u2014<i>Kentish Mercury,<\/i> 9 June 1838.<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/h5><h5><\/h5>\n\n\t\n<br><br>\n\n\n\t\n <br>\n\n\t\n\t&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h6>A Bar Goes Under<br>\nfrom West Berlin to East End Lane\n <br>\n(an indication of method\nand a story<br>\n that didn\u2019t make it into Chapter 13)<\/h6><br>\n\n\t\n\tWritten in 1965, Johnson\u2019s story \u201cA Bar Goes Under\u201d ( \u201cEine Kneipe geht verloren\u201d republished in&nbsp; <i>Berliner Sachen, <\/i>1975) tracks the fate of a bar in West Berlin that was put at the service of student escape helpers smuggling people through the frontier from the East during the early years of the Berlin Wall. Johnson\u2019s bar finally goes out of business as various interests react to the idealistic young barkeeper\u2019s participation in this project: having embarked on what she thought would be a temporary job, she ends up being sued by her own relatives for destroying the family enterprise.&nbsp;\n\n\t\n&nbsp;<br>\n\n\n\n\t\n\t<img width=\"3416\" height=\"2352\" width_o=\"3416\" height_o=\"2352\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5124dc8eeb24bef9e24bb342ad982eb7bacba20a5a40d92625c220ed1d2da4b2\/IMG_3565.jpeg\" data-mid=\"93376718\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<br>\nBars have found different ways of \u201cgoing under\u201d on the Kentish island where Johnson made his English home. I got this watercolour from an eBay seller in Montana who had herself found it pasted into a volume of albumen photographs assembled somewhere in the British Isles during the 1880s. &nbsp;It shows The Royal Oak Inn, a remote hostelry that once stood above the soft and fossil-spewing London clay cliffs overlooking the North Sea from the island\u2019s \u201cEast End\u201d. Intrigued to find a picture of this secluded inn, which here seems to anticipate the atmosphere of James Meade Falkner\u2019s yet to be published smuggling novel <i>Moonfleet<\/i>, I started to look into its story. &nbsp;&nbsp; <br><br>In mid-Victorian times, the Royal Oak was one of the more remote destinations available to visitors on the Isle of Sheppey. Search for it via the British Newspaper Archive, and it makes its earliest appearance on 7th June 1859, when it was offered for sale in the <i>South Eastern Gazette.<\/i>&nbsp; &nbsp;Described as \u201ca desirable inn\u201d situated in \u201cthe most beautiful part of the Isle of Sheppey\u201d, it was equipped with \u201cabout Three Acres of Land, consisting principally of Plantation of Fruit, Pleasure, and Garden Ground\u201d. &nbsp;Perched at the end of the world, the Royal Oak was, without question, a place of some romance. &nbsp;Known as the haunt of smugglers as well as of the more energetic and\/or secretive summer excursionists, it also played a significant role in the island\u2019s largely forgotten political history. <br>\n<br>\nOn Saturday 7 June 1873, the <i>Sheerness Times and General Advertiser, <\/i>informed its readers that&nbsp; 200 of the island\u2019s agricultural labourers had made their way to the Royal Oak from all parts of the island to attend a meeting the previous Saturday evening. The assembly, which was part of that decade\u2019s nation-wide \u201cRevolt of the Fields\u201d, had been called so that Mr. Harry Howard of the Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union could propose the creation of a Sheppey branch of this fast-growing friendly society. &nbsp;The union had been founded in Maidstone only a year previously and was under the leadership of Alfred Simmons, a journalist editor of the <i>Kent Messenger,<\/i> who once attributed his sympathy with the county\u2019s agricultural labourers to his own experience of growing up in poverty as one of five children of a mother widowed in her early thirties. <br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"2043\" height=\"3256\" width_o=\"2043\" height_o=\"3256\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/be6779697af9d22b69b51a3fc264f813589a4bd5a6c2be7009ac888bf2a31f56\/Scan-32-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93377224\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;I have had a jolly good time and am sorry it is finished&quot;. Postcard of avenue leading to the Royal Oak by Noah's Ark, Sheerness, sent 25 August 1908\" data-caption=\"&quot;I have had a jolly good time and am sorry it is finished&quot;. Postcard of avenue leading to the Royal Oak by Noah's Ark, Sheerness, sent 25 August 1908\"\/>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<br>\nSuch was the turn-out at the Royal Oak that the Sheppey rally had to be held \u201cin the avenue adjacent to the little picturesque public-house\u201d. Having climbed onto a table, Howard apologised for the fact that he would also have to chair the meeting himself. &nbsp;He asked the assembled labourers to listen patiently to speakers, whether they were for or against the proposition. \u201cThe subject\u201d, which was of national importance and definitely \u201cnot confined to a hole-and-corner village,\u201d should be considered \u201cbeyond hooting down.\u201d&nbsp; <br><br>Howard may still have been wearing the \u201cagricultural\u201d boots and leggings for which he had been mocked in the <i>Maidstone Journal\u2019s<\/i> sneering report of the union\u2019s recent fundraising meeting in Gravesend. &nbsp;Yet he knew how to present a reasoned case even while ridiculing the objections farming interests had tried to plant in their workers\u2019 minds. It was, Howard stated, the general saying in a village that when men joined the union they did so in order to strike. \u201cThere was not a greater fallacy than this,\u201d because a union \u201cwas merely a combination of men to benefit themselves, so that there could not be very much wrong with it.\u201d Unions used the strike only as last resort, and this one hoped to find other ways of saving its members from the answer that customarily awaited labourers who dared express any grievances. &nbsp;<br><br>\u201cIf you don\u2019t like it, go!\u201d &nbsp;That was the reply the demanding, or just pleading, labourer could expect from his employer. &nbsp;And those who were forced to \u201cgo\u201d had no chance of getting employment from another farmer in the parish. &nbsp;So the aggrieved worker had to leave the area, knowing there would be plenty of other men to take up the work at starvation wages. &nbsp;Once the new organisation became \u201cgeneral\u201d, Howard promised, it would have the leverage to put an end to this misery. &nbsp;The Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union was, so Howard encouraged the more timorous onlookers to understand, one of the last unions to form: even the Church of England\u2019s curates had recently created such an association to save themselves from being \u201cground down to the lowest by the big wigs of that Church\u201d. <br><br>After Howard\u2019s rousing speech, the meeting adjourned to the pub, where a Sheppey branch of the Kent Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union was duly formed with a membership of 70 men. Two years later, its members were coming to terms with the island farmers\u2019 reaction to their unwelcome exercise in collective self-defence. &nbsp;
46In April 1875 one who knew better than to reveal his identity except as \u201ca farm labourer\u201d, wrote to the <i>Sheerness Times<\/i> to let readers know \u201chow those who are uniting to attain a reasonable day\u2019s pay are treated by the \u201cAmalgamated Club\u201d of the farmers of this island. <br>\n<br>\n&nbsp;On Sheppey as elsewhere in the county, the labourers&nbsp; had been \u201clocked out\u201d because they were demanding a working day of 10 hours. A young man who had been elected branch secretary of the Kent Agricultural Labourer\u2019s Union, was immediately discharged from a farm near \u201cCourt Tree\u201d and also dismissed by the church wardens from his long-established additional employment as \u201corgan blower\u201d at the church in the agricultural village of Eastchurch. &nbsp; Two years earlier, the &nbsp;union\u2019s founder and Honorary Secretary Alfred &nbsp;Simmons had told a meeting in Lamberhurst that the \u201cunmanly, unkind, unchristianlike\u201d behaviour of the farmers was \u201cunworthy of Englishmen.\u201d (<i>Kentish Gazette<\/i>, 17 June 1873, p. 3) &nbsp; This unnamed Sheppey labourer now repeated that charge, urging \u201cthose who deprecate the Unenglish proceedings of the farmers of Sheppey,\u201d to contribute their \u201cmite\u201d towards the welfare of those injured by the \u201clock out\u201d. He also noted that the branch lodge continued to hold its meetings at the Royal Oak in East End Lane.&nbsp; <br><br>As the red bucket in the unknown watercolourist\u2019s picture may suggest, The Royal Oak was among the remote buildings on Sheppey\u2019s east coast that proved remarkably prone to fire. It was, however,&nbsp; a different threat that eventually put an end to the Royal Oak. &nbsp;On this coast, the idea of \u201cgoing under\u201d is all too literal \u2013 fields, houses, churches, coastguard stations, pillboxes have been doing it for centuries. &nbsp;The cliffs are of soft London clay, and it has been estimated that&nbsp; miles of land may have dissolved into the rising sea since Roman times. &nbsp; In \u201cvolcano land\u201d, as this unstable coast was dubbed by the <i>Illustrated London News <\/i>after a fall in January 1909,&nbsp; the end comes not as a crashing fall of rocks, but as a slumping movement of mud and clay in which undermined areas \u201cglide\u201d down, often strangely intact, towards the water. &nbsp;<br>\n<br>\nA typical Sheppey landslip had occurred in 1809, when a great clod of land measuring 500ft by 150 ft \u201cslid gradually down to the valley called Busbyhole\u201d. &nbsp;It took with it parts of a dwellinghouse, a cow-house and several outbuildings\u2019 but the descent was so gradual and gentle, that the corn planted on the land could still be \u201charvested in a good condition the following autumn\u201d. &nbsp;<br><br>\n<img width=\"1000\" height=\"762\" width_o=\"1000\" height_o=\"762\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/24d0d56bdb96dd7185d6fc27d7accfe46a4fb64e3a41962776f0d341bd7e39ae\/s-l1600-3.jpg\" data-mid=\"93544170\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Illustrated London News, 1870\" data-caption=\"Illustrated London News, 1870\"\/>\n<br>Another of these falls occurred in June 1870. &nbsp;As the <i>Sheerness Times<\/i> reported on the 25th, this one had been seen by two officers who, having just walked over the fallen acre, announced the descent to have been \u201ca grand sight\u201d. &nbsp;The&nbsp; pleasure gardens sold as part of the Royal Oak Inn had recently been diminished too \u2013 \u201clarge slips of land have also taken place at the Royal Oak, East-End-Lane, during the past few years, reducing the lawn, which was of considerable size, to the insignificant area it now occupies.\u201d <br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"3229\" height=\"1930\" width_o=\"3229\" height_o=\"1930\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e91b788c038ec37b9877de80718a445069cea196ebeedbdfb7f3680f108a5db0\/Scan-29-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93447159\" border=\"0\" alt=\"View from &quot;Royal Oak Point&quot;, painted for &quot;The Development Company&quot;, set up to sell plotland sites for shacks and bungalows above the unstable cliffs at Minster by the developer F. R. Ramuz and Son. Circa 1910\" data-caption=\"View from &quot;Royal Oak Point&quot;, painted for &quot;The Development Company&quot;, set up to sell plotland sites for shacks and bungalows above the unstable cliffs at Minster by the developer F. R. Ramuz and Son. Circa 1910\"\/>\n<br>\nAlthough the surrounding land and garden kept collapsing around it, the Royal Oak survived until the 1950s, when it was finally cleared before it joined its ancient or
46chard and bowling green in \u201cgoing under\u201d. As for the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union, by the 1880s, the much maligned Albert Simmons had connected its cause with franchise reform, standing as a parliamentary candidate for William Gladstone\u2019s Liberal Party and calling the labourers of Kent to join the Liberals against the \u201cscornful curl of the lip\u201d with which Tories had always met their demands&nbsp; for improvement (<i>Thanet Advertiser<\/i> 27 June 1885, p.4 ).<br>\n<br>\nSimmons may be less remembered than Joseph Arch of Warwickshire, but the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union was one of the most successful of the associations that formed during the Revolt of the Fields. This may be attributed to its use of festivals and journalism as well as its strike and sickness funds. &nbsp;Yet it was also distinguished by its commitment to assisted emigration, a cause that earlier defenders of the English rural community such as William Cobbett had opposed as a wholly unnecessary displacement spuriously justified by appeals to Malthus\u2019s theory of the surplus population. For Simmons, on the contrary, emigration was another weapon in the battle against the Tory farmers.<br><br>Speaking to a crowd of about 1000 in Canterbury in July 1872, Simmons disputed the frequently trotted out allegation that the union had been got up by \u201cpaid agitators\u201d determined to bring on a strike. &nbsp;Its policy, he explained, &nbsp;was actually moderate and gradual. &nbsp;The&nbsp; first step was to request an increase in wages, and then to seek independent arbitration if this was refused. &nbsp;The third measure, which was placed before the fourth and final option of calling a strike, was to enable \u201csuch men as desired\u201d to migrate or emigrate \u201cfrom Kent to better places\u201d (<i>Maryport Observer,<\/i> 20 March 1874, p,. 2.) Various destinations were available, but the union appears to have favoured sending its emigrating families \u201cdown under\u201d to South Australia and &nbsp;New Zealand. &nbsp; It helped 234 families embarked for South Australia near the end of 1873. 400 had gone by the end of the year, when a concerned farmer from Waltham ventured the hope that a good half of them would soon enough be begging to exchange \u201cthe aguish forest of New Zealand, the blinding sands of Australia, or the wild prairies of North America for the hop gardens of Kent.\u201d &nbsp;(<i>Kentish Gazette<\/i>&nbsp; 16 December 1873). &nbsp;In 1879, Simmons countered another farmers\u2019 lock-out by filling &nbsp;a steamship made available to him by the Agent-General of New Zealand, and himself joining the emigrating labourers on their voyage. Since many of the departing labourers had worked in Kent\u2019s hop fields, he took a selection of hop plants so that they might renew their activities once landed. &nbsp;<br><br>As Simmons intended, this encouragement of emigration helped increase pressure on farmers, especially at busy times of year when their harvest depended on the easy availability of workers. &nbsp;It\u2019s effectiveness may be measured by various furious reports in the county press. &nbsp;It would be said that Simmons and the other \u201cmountebanks\u201d at the head of the union were making a killing from the commission they secured for everyone they signed up for free passage to the far side of the Empire. &nbsp;The county\u2019s Tory papers also opened their pages to stories about the bitter disappointment of emigrants who disembarked in places that were anything but the \u201cland of milk and honey\u201d they had been promised. &nbsp;Regrets were keenly anticipated among those Simmons had sent to New Zealand and South Australia, but the commentators had to make do with those of the agricultural labourers who had been \u201cinduced by philanthropists\u201d to embark for Brazil in May 1872, and soon found themselves doing the work of slaves: \u201cWe live together like pigs\u2026 We would not have come here for all the world had we known\u201d (<i>Kentish Gazette,<\/i> 24 December 1874). &nbsp; Nobody could justifiably stick the blame for that particular passage on Simmons, but the accusation was generalised nonetheless.<br><br>A rotation like this had long been underway in the agricultural economy of Sheppey, with farm labourers emigrating to America, often helped by children who had gone before them, and their departure being noted in newspapers in Ireland (the <i>Sligo Champion<\/i> published such a notice on 3 November 1851), whence \u201citinerant\u201d labourers would make their way to the island to take up available work at harvest time. It was in a clash between Irish and English labourers at Eastchurch during the harvest of 1837 that the insulting word \u201cpikey\u201d is said to have entered the English language (<i>Sea View, <\/i>pp.107-8).<br><br>\n<img width=\"3033\" height=\"1833\" width_o=\"3033\" height_o=\"1833\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7af08ab1c4cc2342cc556e43287283863a8f6c0ed365d4d528eaa965afab8ae5\/Scan-21.jpeg\" data-mid=\"93474764\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;My bungalow is five minutes walk from this beautiful place&quot;. Postcard, sent 18 July 1931.\" data-caption=\"&quot;My bungalow is five minutes walk from this beautiful place&quot;. Postcard, sent 18 July 1931.\"\/>\n\n<br>\nOf the agricultural labourers who didn\u2019t ship out for the \u201cNew World\u201d, we might now think more generously about Benjamin Bunk, an elderly and besmocked labourer who turned up at one of the island\u2019s first Suffragist meetings in August 1909. &nbsp;One of the holidaying speakers, the American Alys Pearsall Smith (aka Mrs. Bertrand Russell), records that Mr. Bunk proved an awkward presence before going off to get himself another glass of beer. Overall, though, she found herself facing a serious and attentive audience at that meeting in Eastchurch, singling out a roughly clad young labourer, who stood rapt and immovable throughout the astonishing event, and dropped several coins into the collection pail at the close&nbsp; (<i>Sea View,<\/i> pp. 176-7). &nbsp;<br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<h6>A politics that once counted: two blasts from the rural class struggle in late Victorian Kent<\/h6><br>1. \u201cGreat Franchise Demonstration at Canterbury,\u201d <i>Thanet Advertiser,<\/i> 27 June 1885, p. 4.<br>\n<br>Mr. Alfred Simmons (Liberal candidate for the St Augustine\u2019s Division) was very warmly received. &nbsp;He said: \u2013 I rise at the &nbsp;request of the labourers of Kent and Sussex, and on their behalf to move the following motion:<br>\n<br>\n\u201cThis meeting of Kent and Sussex labourers and representatives of Liberal Associations of Kent and East Sussex, remembering the promise that the present Parliament should not be dissolved until the household suffrage had been granted to the counties, tenders its grateful thanks to Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party for the consistency with which they have fulfilled that promise to the people.\u201d<br>\n<br>\nFrom the time of my boyhood I have been, as I hope and believe, a consistent follower of the man whom I believe to have been the best friend that the working classes of the country ever had (a voice: Gladstone), and I assure you it sends a thrill of grateful pleasure through me to be selected to move this resolution of thanks to our grand old leader, Mr. Gladstone ((Loud cheers.) The speaker then recounted the long and great struggle the labourers had had to obtain their rights, and pointed out to his hearers who it was that had always opposed them. &nbsp;His experience had been that when they asked a Conservative member of Parliament to supp
46ort that measure they had been met with the scornful curl of the lip.&nbsp; \u201cWe have been mocked and laughed at, and I tell you, and I tell you truthfully, that you do not owe the smallest amount of thanks to the Tory party for your votes. (Cheers.) I have been asked by some labourers to describe if I could what was the difference between a Conservative and a Liberal, and to do so I will tell you this. &nbsp;The Conservatives always have obstructed and attempted to cripple the reforms demanded by the people. The Liberals have always initiated and advocated and agitated these reforms in the teeth of the Tory party, and they have been victorious (Cheers.) This is the difference between the Liberal and Tory. The Tory obstructs you and keeps you down. &nbsp;The Liberal helps you to get up, rise; and to-day I, as one whom I believe you will trust, tell you this that so far as I am concerned no uncertain sound shall proceed from me on this question (Cheers.) . . . &nbsp;I venture solemnly, seriously to warn you against being duped, hoodwinked by these atrocious statements of our opponents, and I would like you to ask them, if the Tory party have not opposed you, who has? (Cheers.) How is it that the franchise was not introduced when you first asked for it 13 years ago? &nbsp;Where has the opposition come from? Why as a matter of fact and certainty it has come from the usual quarter from which opposition to the people always has and always will come, from the Tory party. (Hear, hear). &nbsp;Although perhaps there may be individual men stupid enough to allow themselves to be hoodwinked (hear, hear), let me beseech of the mass of you to stand, firmly and honourable by the side of those of us who have led you to victory\u2026\u201d<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n 2. &nbsp;\u201cA Word to Labourers,\u201d <i>Kent &amp; Sussex Courier,<\/i> 13 January 1893, p. 6 <br>\n<br>\n\u201cSo far as Kent is concerned we believe there is now a real \u201creunion of hearts\u201d between the three main elements into which the agricultural community is divided. A few years since it was not so. Then the labourers regarded their masters and their landlords, to say nothing about the parson, as their natural enemies. That feeling was the outcome of the pernicious teachings of Mr. Alfred Simmons and others connected with the Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union. But we all know how that union has dwindled into a state of impotency, after doing an infinitude of mischief in breaking up those kindly relations which had for many years existed between the Kentish farmers and their men. We have good warrant for saying that no one now regrets that more than the labourers themselves; &nbsp;and that in future they will rather treat their natural leaders \u2014 the landlords and the tenant farmers \u2014 than put any reliance in such mountebanks as Simmons, Steadman, and others, who only have their own selfish ends to served.&nbsp; Who that remembers that first meeting in the Bell Rink, at Maidstone, some three-and-twenty years ago, when Simmons, Roots, and Co., with the aid of the <i>Maidstone Telegraph,<\/i> floated the Agricultural Labourers\u2019 Union, can look back upon it with anything but disgust and execration? &nbsp;How many of our sturdy Kentish labourers \u2014 good, honest men and true \u2014 that were then and afterwards led into joining the union ever suspected that it had its origin in an emigration scheme, whereby its promoters were to put a handsome sum into their pockets for every man, woman and child they could send out of the country? &nbsp; That scheme was the death-knell of hundreds . . . Simmons was king, with a following of twenty thousand dupes, not one of whom derived any lasting benefit from their slavish adherence to their newfound saviour. Their hard earned money was squandered in gew-gaws, scarves, ribbons, stars, flags, and banners; Simmons and his satellites drew high salaries, and in the end they prosecuted him for misappropriating their funds.\u201d<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>A house for Somerset Maugham\u2019s <br>\nCockney barber, \u201cSheppey\u201d<br><\/h6><br><h5>\u201cI wish now I\u2019d gone down to the Isle of Sheppey when the doctor advised it. You wouldn\u2019t \u2019ave thought of looking for me there.\u201d<\/h5><h5>\u2014 \u201cSheppey\u201d, who was played by John Gielgud in the first prodution, speaking to Death in Somerset Maugham\u2019s last play, <i>Sheppey: a Play in Three Acts,&nbsp;<\/i>1933<\/h5><br><h5><b>\u201c<\/b>I know the very \u2019ouse I\u2019m going to buy when my ship comes home. Two acres of land. View of the sea. Just the place for me and my old woman.\u201d<\/h5>\n\n\t\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"3035\" height=\"1774\" width_o=\"3035\" height_o=\"1774\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ad19046695c8f60572143e0ee1d15bbbef237b9c1bf7c85620d05346a3125a68\/Fig-29.png\" data-mid=\"89533441\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Plotland dwelling, near Sheerness, c. 1935\" data-caption=\"Plotland dwelling, near Sheerness, c. 1935\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d308c94f6a3fedbe9f947a61644ac9d0e5865dd81caee6f2e1b3437ba67de6ac\/014A8573-9789-4F15-A64F-D1A282B84CEF_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492297\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Expanded bungalow, Warden\" data-caption=\"Expanded bungalow, Warden\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cb9924f81a030e5160a3ea7d4024f26b4e4b3451d0c98d3e8b6ea8678d625185\/445D1C01-0E2D-4E7E-A640-0FC885510E79_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494343\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Che
46yney Rock House, formerly HQ of Mr. Alston's oyster empire\" data-caption=\"Cheyney Rock House, formerly HQ of Mr. Alston's oyster empire\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d6c84932220659aa3b1d0cd3045883d3cba1fdd2d2eb77d638c5817f1c02a97f\/924E2153-BDA1-4F68-AECE-BC90F53A3636_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492348\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;Bungalette&quot;, Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"&quot;Bungalette&quot;, Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8478f9f9953171b02b72382852dc1ac782e2ff3ecdd020b148145ae8921df6b5\/B9F75F24-0098-44BE-93A0-45B0A8086FE0_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494322\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ece8e6a2e2069f5a59cc08dc08c68b2202384e224670d8da4aa40391e1c5a9b\/IMG_1300.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89929472\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Banks Terrace, Mile Town, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Banks Terrace, Mile Town, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/eead09b5f8668a54a10dfb1ca23e079d3457ac29cb84f6247c94ca66848feb45\/CDDE27D6-5C35-4FC0-A2A1-78221D7E8C95_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89773953\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Extended bungalette, Shellbeach\" data-caption=\"Extended bungalette, Shellbeach\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/da2a8ef0b517f99d10f899e06502ae970638eb728b7e2f0e8a3bb428fee43fb3\/8267B184-B80A-469F-9E26-3A56713AE7BE_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494393\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shurland Hall, Eastchurch, remaining gatehouse ot &quot;the house that played host to Henry VIII&quot;\" data-caption=\"Shurland Hall, Eastchurch, remaining gatehouse ot &quot;the house that played host to Henry VIII&quot;\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/42401fec7c909eb1b8855d3e7f80cc654c8e005024847cd8376b540e8c3f4516\/IMG_2603.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89927836\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Warden Point, the last house before the advancing cliff \" data-caption=\"Warden Point, the last house before the advancing cliff \"\/>\n<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"768\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ab60712165541fa7c97705d395b9ad4a31408d219842f5925064cb831fff04c8\/26F4EECC-1299-4089-A55D-75D179C452B6_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492404\" border=\"0\" alt=\"&quot;As solid as a rock&quot;, house on Blue Town High Street, saved from slum clearance by Cypriot barber John Abramides\" data-caption=\"&quot;As solid as a rock&quot;, house on Blue Town High Street, saved from slum clearance by Cypriot barber John Abramides\"\/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a5adb14a9d45ef214626a172bbfb2268ef34ca05221e9490c113cdea4ad005d0\/A373E8CF-86A8-429D-AC3B-08F5A028DF3D_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494398\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Flats where the Sea View Hotel once stood, Broadway, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Flats where the Sea View Hotel once stood, Broadway, Sheerness\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/095f789cb13c6f585084a90c518f8392d161c0f8f5ca4c739d9ccc6e8e8dcfd3\/F80432F5-F6FB-4941-B29F-2D6A7A331FDB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89494320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Remnant of the village that once served the Turkey Cement Works at Elmley\" data-caption=\"Remnant of the village that once served the Turkey Cement Works at Elmley\"\/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a61eff57a7d93dbd72b2e12b418c3f75733a419739bf54a511de493de163f58d\/423FBF48-7F45-4062-998A-7017EF80C010_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89492852\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Glass House, formerly the Victoria, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\" data-caption=\"The Glass House, formerly the Victoria, Marine Parade, Sheerness.\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1a0f891f7985302d283bfaa73e5b77706a2a85e95cd9bf9cd9cf3e496f5cd32e\/IMG_0911.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89667618\" border=\"0\" alt=\"26  &amp; 25 Marine Parade, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"26  &amp; 25 Marine Parade, Sheerness\"\/>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<br><br><br><br>\n\t\n\t<h6>Sheerness<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3015bc5f48c81b1c631cc818b13b27dbeef8246bf50bf2ed5348a51412a3c66b\/IMG_0839.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91417732\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gentleman outside the Belle and Lion,  a Wetherspoon pub on Sheerness High Street, 6 July 2018\" data-caption=\"Gentleman outside the Belle and Lion,  a Wetherspoon pub on Sheerness High Street, 6 July 2018\"\/>\n \n<br>\n\t<h6>\u201cOn-Sea\u201d <br>\nin all weathers<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<img width=\"368\" height=\"585\" width_o=\"368\" height_o=\"585\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/74a287ffaa5643e738aefda4ee2d57fc12f2570a181e53acae20ecedc43a6036\/website1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87144033\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"89\"\/>\n\t\n<img width=\"3062\" height=\"1849\" width_o=\"3062\" height_o=\"1849\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a7cbc222894c3747c4704a4fa54fe4049f2ce0c9170d48d0c0f9cd8564e4f3b7\/Scan-11-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"89118048\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"100\"\/>\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t<br>\n\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a9e79c11f319c353189144a32557fa1346d0ab56c859546d810a8428338eb851\/0E6AFCE1-79F6-4714-A9FB-2D5DF51FC3A7_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89099215\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/14c
46de80e741a4ca999e2a7a2f4ed7348e8c24379fee12b13f6eafccd339cb519\/66FCB114-86EB-42C6-BF34-300FCB2C4177_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89298736\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7c15dbd0335eb3153a5c9934cbec81872aed6a7f37440c5e3729033c43a620b2\/EC834006-6052-4E28-8122-69536EC3CB39_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89779671\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/08b0b1333f227d187d70472dbfb8ab96f15adfa89eb1e53a49a67593aa90e99e\/3F144D18-D5DF-4F34-8F0B-E4E8BA99AC16_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89099176\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/16c504ce54bff8829aa40db44b87aef19508d09175b86fe1277011364b33a49e\/0EB84A52-B93B-4299-AF69-D8B254D6448B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89099357\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3215\" height=\"2018\" width_o=\"3215\" height_o=\"2018\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/771251d5079672acc77d4ab0c7515ff3d098e071ef30f1caa9dc03b88c7857f2\/Scan-13.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89018750\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3235\" height=\"2055\" width_o=\"3235\" height_o=\"2055\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cfcc662299c100f16fcbc92595a1d23045d696da07ca40c6dbadfa8058616523\/Scan-11.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89018752\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2380\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2380\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/af27b2f90669224885bfe912879819abc40b0e2c8a388e69a3764c4fdba55704\/D20120626-101.jpg\" data-mid=\"89018955\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Under snow<\/h6>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"3637\" height=\"2433\" width_o=\"3637\" height_o=\"2433\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/704c285869e31022e11703eb3caca9b7b706ae6b466fd4ca1c68315b00e7a69a\/000008-1.JPG\" data-mid=\"88680962\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3637\" height=\"2433\" width_o=\"3637\" height_o=\"2433\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7de3a2535ba3d7f54ce1dd2370d9af939ab7a99ef1d3a758a4c3ad204a056c41\/000005.JPG\" data-mid=\"88680965\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2433\" height=\"3637\" width_o=\"2433\" height_o=\"3637\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6c3e6866cf9eac8057a4a832fd0fe472c49812300551c9c9b7a2c413b066a989\/000007_Fotor2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88681013\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2433\" height=\"3637\" width_o=\"2433\" height_o=\"3637\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6fc4c42f141b9b77670370394d50a26bcac2a625bbb52fbe2c72a9abef72c476\/000002_Fotor.jpg\" data-mid=\"88681075\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2433\" height=\"3637\" width_o=\"2433\" height_o=\"3637\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c4562063225f13a3e577226801ffc8a0211bf7eaa32bf579623023a8dce6d69e\/000001_Fotor.jpg\" data-mid=\"88688136\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\tSheerness photographed on 28 February 2018 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spilleon94\/?hl=en\">Simeon Haselton<\/a> \u201cwith my granddad's old [medium format Agfa Billy Record] camera, which was created in\nthe mid-30s, around the time of Uwe Johnson's birth\u201d.\n\t\n<br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>D.H. Lawrence on Marine Parade\u2019s <br>\nFirst Breakwater<\/h6>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1104\" height=\"890\" width_o=\"1104\" height_o=\"890\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/29da6e23361fb1ab5aed73db160a8795ea6ab0b35977857ab7c1d5002e018592\/Fig-83.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89669699\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Parade, circa 1865\" data-caption=\"Marine Parade, circa 1865\"\/><br><br>\n<h5>D.H. Lawrence\u2019s mother, Lydia Beardsall, grew up in Sheerness before 1870, when an accident in the dockyard&nbsp; wrecked her father\u2019s health and forced the family, which had lived there since 1858,&nbsp; to leave in some penury. Lawrence would later describe her as a \u201csuperior soul\u201d(by which he surely didn\u2019t mean that she was a snob).&nbsp; He also used her as the model for Gertrude Morel in his novel <i>Sons and Lovers<\/i> (1913): sensitive and intelligent but married to a brutalised and drunken Nottingham miner and inclined, in the midst of this life of \u201cdreary endurance\u201d, to grieve for the girl who had \u201crun so lightly on the breakwater at Sheerness ten years before\u201d.<\/h5>\n\t\n<br><br><br><br><br>\n\n\n\n<br><br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h6>Sheerness from above<\/h6>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<br>\n<h5>\u201cThen, for the first time, I saw Sheerness from 10,000 feet up, a spit of land between the Medway and the Thames.\u201d<br>\u2014 Uwe Johnson, 1978<\/h5>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"719\" height=\"382\" width_o=\"719\" height_o=\"382\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/23c1960006b6b5ca2d81701a9b1484c7f62115c6505f93d33891876af072abed\/Im19100104Aero-Rolls.jpg\" data-mid=\"89017163\" border=\"0\" alt=\"C. S. Rolls in his Short-Wright flyer at the Aero Club&rsquo;s flying ground, Shellbeach, Sheppey, Flight, 1909\" data-caption=\"C. S. Rolls in his Short-Wright flyer at the Aero Club\u2019s flying ground, Shellbeach, Sheppey, Flight, 1909\"\/>\n<img width=\"1098\" height=\"716\" width_o=\"1098\" height_o=\"716\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6cfb76bc41b175703ea52bdc42f306d4313eb497ed5611c647d5f3df083c2586\/A6DE0209-CE5F-4DCA-92AB-BA99B9AD7137_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"8928
466833\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Diewenow, a spit of land on the Pomeranian Baltic, where Johnson remembered summer days as an infant with his farming grandparents. Postcard, sent 1944\" data-caption=\"Diewenow, a spit of land on the Pomeranian Baltic, where Johnson remembered summer days as an infant with his farming grandparents. Postcard, sent 1944\"\/>\n<img width=\"2863\" height=\"2801\" width_o=\"2863\" height_o=\"2801\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/68080292a2abb898b78b4937d2ac452a15fb8e1355ef843422b77b3f5e337013\/D20120626-105-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88955214\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sheerness, c. 1978, looking west across the town and port to the Medway\" data-caption=\"Sheerness, c. 1978, looking west across the town and port to the Medway\"\/>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"6425\" height=\"4339\" width_o=\"6425\" height_o=\"4339\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/71e8926bcb7f01558e24876dc3a6c054f0e79fac8b79523050ab4a56816e588c\/Fig-38-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91550583\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Luftwaffe aerial photo of the &quot;war Harbour&quot; at Sheerness, 1943\" data-caption=\"Luftwaffe aerial photo of the &quot;war Harbour&quot; at Sheerness, 1943\"\/>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"2938\" height=\"2007\" width_o=\"2938\" height_o=\"2007\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/91be5853e242621c89ce1fd91c027e820fa4b01c8249f0f0d5c737da77be94d1\/D20120626-103-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88955226\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, Sheerness, c. 1978. Aerial photos by George Poule, Studio 137, Sheerness\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, Sheerness, c. 1978. Aerial photos by George Poule, Studio 137, Sheerness\"\/>\n\n\n<br>\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f065de2e7cdf2a896ce793e167b231b3c937ea194bc3fec69068b05f95426307\/64D8936C-FDB5-4274-947F-9899DA7A3FC1_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89490663\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Marine Parade, looking east from the sea wall opposite Johnson's house, 2017\" data-caption=\" Marine Parade, looking east from the sea wall opposite Johnson's house, 2017\"\/>\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h5>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-3nbXM5VUCI\">Johnson\u2019s neighbourhood<\/a> as a German visitor filmed it when he was still there in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-3nbXM5VUCI\">1981.<\/a><\/h5>\n\t\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t \n\t<br>\n<br>\n<h6>The Johnsons\u2019 House<\/h6><br><img width=\"343\" height=\"204\" width_o=\"343\" height_o=\"204\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/cdfe191d147c077b96258c5db214f487efb1a6518b2e5125704fccadbd2f8c39\/D20120626-103-jst-house.jpg\" data-mid=\"92937427\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3a96b0d0d450d33f96ce3eb5e29f749c1039141ba0ec9bd6ce53b1e998dd43da\/IMG_0911.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88690802\" border=\"0\" alt=\"26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f87e7d2cd51bad311da5e4f82b97bd17b5cbf74f1e986017337d1974406300ca\/Two-Ships-test13.tiff184-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88704809\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7534eebb0986f1e9b1673302a7977e50687839a77c1ed3224e3726d9b074dd97\/Two-Ships-test15-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88704169\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/63d2b252ddc0039020f33b9a91c86a15439c2b0d40edd9ba2e5cd3795ce1b20e\/Two-Ships-test14-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88704163\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/911b618fa58beeff89295db73129e9cf69ee67245e708f0b9ccba1a620be4d0b\/Two-Ships-test9-copy-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"88705156\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1308\" height=\"912\" width_o=\"1308\" height_o=\"912\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/fc7670d1eac93d5cceb4ba5fd20f971f0f738efdc2f29dd5ad8759ae27a11aac\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.03.27.png\" data-mid=\"89522967\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ac98b033ac99d491e8b3e7f812ca5c9a8f11a1e3971e9aa607c2a9aeb9f97538\/65B0CCD7-D4BC-47E3-AEE7-F12282E800BE_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299680\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e8e62cdcf52a36097a64ecd721cc23c9d7e9417b14c6fb63dd03f4a67f69d9ed\/F41B43F4-9E9C-4F70-9A1B-AF3349F65AA3_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88694577\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<br>\n\n\t\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/204146674ee60b7bb25df82669d3868f0441cc29de0e5267e6b32cd51e86bbed\/Rear-View-1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998573\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8ac036edcd5a6eb02c2ff1971d2e498bbbf006a093e46e95205ab932823f303f\/Rear-View-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998574\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ef1336a72c1836c1dba8ad6139b69de423985e999bdd0177ce693dba99c11ac\/Rear-View-3.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998576\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c8b6b3dfedb941cb59dcc731fcf8a6b29f84d87f05abd07f1beba097e4baf529\/Rear-view-3.3.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998575\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/065a7e97ab6c7fd7ec5485aea480e30779aca7b0083bd254398507da3057cdc0\/Raar-View-3.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998572\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4e10e29bdd362e7ff4b8948322e19a1133a10c0082bb73895f1f8068af479b4a\/Rear-View-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998577\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/53f0e6de1d959d976f809bd6019ab5fd523052dddbb42f2709b9cf84228c3ed1\/Rear-View-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91998578\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\" data-caption=\"Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade\"\/>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490867047?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h5>Mutual Aid: scaling the Heights of Alma. A pub seen from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade<\/h5>\n\t\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Neighbour: Martin Aynscomb Harris, <br>the artist next door but one<\/h6>\n\t\n<h6><br>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t<img width=\"4170\" height=\"2730\" width_o=\"4170\" height_o=\"2730\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/43954bb79c36ef2588ab4e5d8d0c756083e84983440f280703821471ff73bb93\/56349004.jpg\" data-mid=\"89672366\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cHe drives a Jaguar, even if he uses it the way other people use apple carts\u201d (UJ, <i>Sea View,<\/i> 346-66).<\/h5>\n\t\n<br><\/h6><br><h6><br>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t<img width=\"1280\" height=\"889\" width_o=\"1280\" height_o=\"889\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ac64d296e1dd40f33f4e47ab5339aaf73d8de94bf50ab4f37af988b28672369a\/thumbn
46ail_image001-2.jpg\" data-mid=\"99430033\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<h5>Martin Aynscomb Harris, selected paintings exhibited against his father-in-law\u2019s car, Rowland\u2019s Castle, Hampshire, c. 1965 (both pictures shown with thanks to Louise &amp; Emma Harris).<\/h5>\n\t\n<\/h6><br><br><br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Looking Through Glass<\/h6>\n\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480080407?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><br>\n\t\n\t<h5>Lighthouse, Cap Arkona, R\u00fcgen<\/h5> &nbsp;<h5>G\u00fcnter Kunert once suggested that Uwe Johnson viewed the world through a \u201cbell jar of strangeness\u201d.&nbsp; Yet the glass behind which he isolated himself was surely the lens of an observatory too. When I put a question about Johnson\u2019s essay \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d to the German sociologist Renate Mayntz, who was a friend of the writer over many years, she described it as \u201cvery characteristic of [Johnson\u2019s] way of looking at reality: incisive, cold, as objective as possible, a camera that catches all details and even the legacy, the history inscribed in the present... I think in his passionate search for descriptive exactness, for \u2018truth\u2019 without implied protest or some normative \u2018message\u2019, he was a true representative of Enlightenment. There are things you don\u2019t have to say, you just need to show them.\u201d <br>\n<i>The Sea View Has Me Again, <\/i>p. 589.<\/h5>\n\t\n\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Johnson\u2019s other Observatory<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"1736\" height=\"972\" width_o=\"1736\" height_o=\"972\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/59ec72f8b6c705f03f0b6458d47d607861bfdb3075684a257d8c32a08a61fef8\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-15.59.56.png\" data-mid=\"89522565\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Napier Tavern, Broadway, Sheerness, 2016.\" data-caption=\"Napier Tavern, Broadway, Sheerness, 2016.\"\/>\n\n\t\n<h5>\n\t\n\t<br>\nJohnson once told <i>Le Monde<\/i> that his years in the GDR had equipped him with an \u201cirreplaceable method of interrogation and experimentation.\u201d (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 36). Two local pubs, in particular, came to serve as the informal research institutes in which he applied this challenging mode of enquiry to the people of Sheerness. His chosen hostelries, The Sea View Hotel and the Napier Tavern, were both on Broadway, close to his house. According to Ronald Peel, publican at the Napier Tavern, Johnson always turned up at the same time in the evening, stepping into the&nbsp; saloon bar with a brief \u201cGood Evening\u201d \u2014 or \u201cGood heavening!\u201d as Johnson himself imagines them registering his pronunciation \u2014 and then taking his customary place on a high, wooden barstool with a seat upholstered in red synthetic leather of the type Tom Waits was in those days hymning as \u201cNaugahyde\u201d. He allegedly always wore the same distinctive garb too: a black peaked watchman\u2019s cap, a black leather jacket, black trousers, black leather boots, and sometimes a thin black leather tie \u2014 the same gear, in other words, that had shocked the poet and translator, Michael Hamburger, who had been astonished to find this highly regarded and sensitive writer going about in the garb of a Hell\u2019s Angel or skinhead. <i>(Sea View, <\/i>p. 392)<br>\n\t\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>\u201cCharlie\u2019s\u201d bar stool<\/h6>\n\t\n<br>\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"1182\" height=\"665\" width_o=\"1182\" height_o=\"665\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/942d491d255f3063f573b6ac191e7754dbcaefdb82a97f1c5808d71832d10b79\/D6C497B4-1845-47CA-A20A-A478448F0A81_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88684101\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\n\t\n<i><\/i><i><br><\/i>\n\t\n\t<i><h5> Long preserved as a relic at the Napier Tavern, the stool from which Johnson, aka \u201cCharlie\u201d, observed and sometimes participated in proceedings is here seen in use as a prop with Big Fish and Friends at their performance of texts from UJ\u2019s Island Stories, Little Theatre, Meyrick Road, Sheerness, 5 March 2016.<\/h5><\/i>\n\t\n<br><br>\n<br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t<b><h6>The bedspread and the kidney machine: charity fund-raising at the Sea View Hotel<\/h6><\/b>\n\t\n<br>\n\t\n\t<img width=\"2482\" height=\"1638\" width_o=\"2482\" height_o=\"1638\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c3ff91b0c45093d35ec02d90f0f837488aec445525
467dce135db394121ce39f4a\/P.-424-new-pic-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91560146\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\t\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h5>Publican Col Mason (left) handing a cheque for \u00a3184 to the chairman of the local kidney machine fund. \u201cThe Mayor is in attendance, complete with his chains, and so too is Johnson: an uncaptioned figure standing alongside the others at the back.\u201d (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 401). The white object, front, was first prize in the raffle. As Johnson wrote to friends in Rostock: \u201cNow I wanted to win that bedspread for you. Further details can be found on the two enclosed raffle tickets, and as for this white monstrosity\u2019s weight, I will say only that the ladies\u2019 knees buckled slightly when it was placed in their two arms for them to admire it.\u201d The picture was printed in the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian<\/i> on 15 September 1978.<br>\n<\/h5><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h5><b><h6>The (other) sociologist and the glass that was never raised<\/h6><\/b><br>\n<br>\nJohnson, may have been unaware of it, but he wasn\u2019t the\nonly person investigating the Isle of Sheppey and the situation of its remaining people after the naval dockyard and also the associated army garrison and naval command (\u201cThe Nore\u201d )&nbsp; were closed in 1960. &nbsp; Ray Pahl, the geographically trained professor\nof Sociology at the University of Kent, also started exploring the Isle of Sheppey\nin the 1970s.&nbsp; <\/h5>\n<br>\n<img width=\"182\" height=\"220\" width_o=\"182\" height_o=\"220\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7405fe8475f3e78b6410a322b0cdbd070113148919db31ddb275ef9678aeec33\/pahl_ray.jpg\" data-mid=\"93896403\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br>\n<h5>\nIndeed, he adopted the\nisland as a kind of research laboratory in which to investigate the consequences\nof deindustrialisation of the kind that had destroyed the island\u2019s economy at a\nstroke. Starting out with romantic ideas of the \u201curban pirate\u201d with his often\nless than legal ways of \u201cgetting by\u201d, he approached the Isle of Sheppey as a\nplace where the post-industrial future was already coming into view. He traced the\nemergence of the \u201cinformal economy\u201d on the island, and the replacement of the full\ntime male job with a more mixed form of \u201chousehold economy\u201d in which women\u2019s\nwork, DIY initiatives, &nbsp;and sometimes nefarious\nforms of \u201cself-provisioning\u201d featured largely. \nTogether w ith his Ph.D student and co-researcher, Claire Wallace, Pahl also\nstudied the experience and perceptions of school leavers on the island. They produced\nwork of abiding influence on economic and social policy \u2013 Pahl in his book <i>Divisions\nof Labour <\/i>(1984) and Wallace in her later study of the \u201cfracture\u201d the closure\nimposed on the lives and expectations of girls and boys in <i>For Richer, For\nPoorer: Growing up In and Out of Work<\/i> (1987). &nbsp;Johnson and Pahl may never have met to compare\nfindings but their accounts of island life in the seventies and early eighties have\na world in common.&nbsp; <br>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"3197\" height=\"2027\" width_o=\"3197\" height_o=\"2027\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/817b89362dc8c295167165daf94c39e76df642ace57abd8ef520d1950e062900\/Fig-75-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"93892661\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n <br>\nThe Kingsferry Bridge across the Swale was built&nbsp; in\n1960, a year in which the island economy was shattered by the closure of the\ndockyard at Sheerness. An entirely practical structure, which carried trains as\nwell as road vehicles between Sheppey and the richer mainland to which Kent\u2019s\nreputation as the \u201cGarden of England\u201d has always been attached, it achieved&nbsp; symbolic significance for Pahl:<br><br>\n\u201cPahl\u2019s drive over the Kingsferry Bridge was not just\na crossing from the\u201cmacro\u201d to the \u201cmicro\u201d level of analysis, nor, in the terms that\nhis PhD student and co-researcher Claire Wallace would borrow from the sociologist\nBasil Bernstein, from the \u201celaborated\u201d code<br>of middle-class language to the more practical and allegedly \u201crestricted\u201d code\nof working-class speech. For Pahl, crossing the Swale also meant preferring\n\u201chard, obdurate reality\u201d against the \u201cdisembodied\u201d theories gripping many of\nhis colleagues at the university. Sheppey was where Pahl would take his stand,\nseeking to go beyond the vivid but far from \u201cscientific\u201d investigations carried\nout by Mass Observation and by writers such as George Orwell and J.B. Priestley\nin the Thirties. As time went on, he would also claim common cause with E.P. Thompson,\nthe Marxist historian and activist who asserted the case for experience, agency\nand the historically dynamic nature of social class as against what he called\nthe \u201cpoverty of theory\u201d [embodied by Louis Althusser and his English followers] in a blazing\nEnglish tract published in 1978.\u201d&nbsp; (<i>Sea View,<\/i> p. 421)<\/h5><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h6>Sheerness Times Guardian<\/h6>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t<br>\n<h5>Wherever he found himself, Uwe Johnson required newspapers. In West Germany, it might be <i>
46Die Zeit<\/i> or <i>Der Spiegel<\/i>.&nbsp; In Rome it was L<i>a Stampa<\/i>. He read the <i>New York Times<\/i> in Berlin as well as during his trips to America.&nbsp; In England he took both the national <i>Guardian<\/i> and the island weekly, the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian.<\/i><\/h5>\n\t\n<br>\n<img width=\"696\" height=\"1008\" width_o=\"696\" height_o=\"1008\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d47c57f98a98ed607c3db6151ce419d541b6d109bc909ea3a9faba6ad94c3b47\/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.59.20.png\" data-mid=\"89529984\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo: Michael Thomas, 2012\" data-caption=\"Photo: Michael Thomas, 2012\"\/>\n\n\t\n\t<br>\n<h5>In the first edition on January 1858, the founder of the <i>Sheerness Guardian, <\/i>Thomas Rigg, had hailed Sheerness as an outward-looking new town that had nothing in common with parochial and tradition-bound communities on the Kentish mainland. <br><br>Unlike such backwaters, Sheerness had \u201cscarcely any aboriginal race\u201d. It was open to the wider world via the naval and military establishments that formed the primary reason for its existence. The town, said Rigg, was \u201ca colony of emigrants from all parts of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.\u201d And \u201cto such a society,\u201d so Rigg proudly declared, \u201cthe affairs of the neighbouring country are, in most cases, about as interesting as the local policy of Timbuctoo.\u201d<\/h5><br>\n<h5>More than a century later, the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian<\/i>&nbsp; would provide Johnson with stories \u2014informative, moving and peculiar too \u2014 to pass on to faraway friends. It would also serve as a screen, or perhaps something closer to a crinkly net curtain, through which an unconvinced incomer might peer without giving anything away: a useful device, in other words, when it comes to keeping your perceptions \u201cnon-committal\u201d and, as Johnson continued in a letter to Max Frisch, preventing them from \u2018ascending into experience or judgement\u2019. There was, though, an exception to be made for the <i>Kent Evening Post <\/i>(context:<i> Sea View, <\/i>pp. 452-58)<\/h5>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n \n\t\n\t<img width=\"1489\" height=\"1850\" width_o=\"1489\" height_o=\"1850\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ba126e2e10b85d4be7f4bf28517d0c8d51b8ceeda6d9aff5b1764c39e68ca94e\/IMG_0444-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91672980\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"58\" alt=\"Johnson's postcardf to the Kent Evening Post, 3 April 1981\" data-caption=\"Johnson's postcardf to the Kent Evening Post, 3 April 1981\"\/>\n\t\n<h5><br>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br><i><br><\/i><\/h5>\n\t\n\t<h6>Island Music<\/h6><br><h5>\n<img width=\"510\" height=\"510\" width_o=\"510\" height_o=\"510\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a6a054aa859167eb11ca184229ff5e756a7371540ce5ac68c41a81b501c63633\/michael-contant-2011-legacy-cd-458.jpg\" data-mid=\"89673636\" border=\"0\" data-scale=\"61\"\/>\n<\/h5>\n\t\n<h5><br>\n\t\n\tHenry Russell, the composer of \u201cA Life on the Ocean Wave\u201d,: Cheers, Boys, Cheers\u201d and many other popular songs of the nineteenth century, was born into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jtrails.org.uk\/trails\/sheerness-and-blue-town\" target=\"_blank\">Sheerness\u2019s Jewish community<\/a> in 1812.<br><br>Yet the island\u2019s music had changed by the 1970s. As Johnson is likely to have discovered from the pages of the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian,<\/i> Michael \u201cNatsy\u201d Contant was one of the very first to introduce Caribbean steel bands to Britain and Europe. Having come from Trinidad as a tuner with the Dixieland Steel Orchestra in 1960, he lived for many years at 7 Delamark Road in Sheerness, tuning pans on a stretch of waste ground&nbsp; beside Kingsferry Bridge and, with his classically trained wife Carol and their children, forming the Rainbow Steel Band, which regularly presented \u201cmusic of the Caribean\u201d on the island as well as elsewhere in Britain and Europe. Their \u201chauntingly beautiful\u201d sound, and especially&nbsp; their arrangement of Richard Addinsell\u2019s \u201cWarsaw Concerto\u201d, appears to have been particularly popular with Sheppey audiences.<br>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j4ggyO-OFXU&amp;list=FLYipnd3sALx9zFdqLd_PagQ&amp;index=1514\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLove My Life\u201d<\/a> Robbie Williams\u2019s day at Shellness\n\t\n<br><\/h5>\n<br><br><br>\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n<br>\n <br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h5><\/h5>\n\t\n<br><br><br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h5>St. Sexburgha\u2019s Abbey: Minster-on-Sea:<br><\/h5>\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ccc977ed6a9aff52eb1fd8820694add281c289d2bca0ca90f85266b4e62
460d91f\/281C13E6-C7E2-4151-96B7-F39B451E6CAA_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89235809\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n\t<br><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e56018be582db839cdbeca82943aad83936d269c962ee4916afd881083db2688\/80B1C021-AA42-4291-A0EA-77D87098C33B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89287864\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/ec717cb5618d84c9cdf322fd7c5c58195a87d526dfb37a8340036ed5a77366bd\/Raar-View-3.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91697030\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Minster Abbey, from top rear window of Johnson's house, 2018\" data-caption=\"Minster Abbey, from top rear window of Johnson's house, 2018\"\/>\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h6>INTERWININGS<br>\n<br>The Transnational Landscape:<br> Ahrenshoop, Fischland and Shellbeach, Sheppey<\/h6><br>\n<h5>\u201cFischland is the most beautiful place in the world.\u201d <br>\u2014 Gesine Cresspahl in <i>Anniversaries IV<\/i><br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2047\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2047\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7ebced1cb51aa3b4fc181baffabc0b93986b1e3e86ea8f63abfcde172cbd4c7e\/Scan-14-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91677785\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<img width=\"2484\" height=\"3408\" width_o=\"2484\" height_o=\"3408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3c71e9d02cd5dd0a3b9773d743c57ee6e9ef997e75a43c4df66e0aa5fb6b8d64\/Scan-15.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91677783\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\t\n\n\t\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490856546?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Aooroaching the sea, Ahrenshoop.\"><\/iframe>\n\n<br><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/488070698?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\" data-caption=\"Ahrenshoop (amateur version)\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n\n\n\t<br>\n\n\t\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9e2fac08524c6c8da19c13843a7156a44ff3a5b3bc70af11160cf03f019b87c3\/Ahrenshoop-Summer.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89120782\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ahrenshoop in Summer\" data-caption=\"Ahrenshoop in Summer\"\/>\n<img width=\"4099\" height=\"2729\" width_o=\"4099\" height_o=\"2729\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f74a84d2c380bb1e2bc11967c4f8b30df4df1d9b9eb166bbc1ff8435c2d35405\/Shellness-with-bungalettes.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89121089\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness\" data-caption=\"Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2197471a5683e81a083026c92c9ba4031d1532015d6db5b0543161de0b367be8\/sherllness-closer.jpeg\" data-mid=\"87151722\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Shellness\" data-caption=\"Shellness\"\/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5ae65facaa191ac4016d8cae0bce48067e09e67fc50256e90cd7719fbd56d965\/Ahrenshoop-Winter.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89121085\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ahrenshoop in Winter\" data-caption=\"Ahrenshoop in Winter\"\/>\n\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480081945?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\" data-caption=\"Two &quot;bungalettes&quot;, Shellbeach\"><\/iframe><br>\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n<h5>On Sheppey, the Englishman isn\u2019t always an Englishman and his home is definitely neither a castle nor a stately home raised on colonial extraction or slavery. \u201cBungalettes\u201dat Shellbeach.<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n<h6>Two Island Resorts<\/h6><br>\n<h5>1. Leysdown-on-Sea<\/h5><br><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490866094?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\"><\/iframe>\n\n<br>\n<br>\n<h5>\u201cWe\ncan all agree that Britain\u2019s coast has been trashed. Yet has it ever been so\nsedulously trashed as on Sheppey? Leysdown on the northeast corner of that isle\nis terminal England, the last resort, the nadir of bungalow development. It makes Hayling look like Biarritz...\u201d <br>\u2014 Jonathan Meades, \u201cLast Resort\u201d (1991)<\/h5><br><br><img width=\"3150\" height=\"1997\" width_o=\"3150\" height_o=\"1997\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e7f745c6b593676558baa3ffe6d946ebb9d4ca00f02cadf03125235496
46dbbdc1\/Leysdown-1.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941322\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"998\" height=\"748\" width_o=\"998\" height_o=\"748\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3ef412a69a0d71696b10112645daaa2539868e8e1b09fbb43310306871c2a3f9\/Leysdown-2.png\" data-mid=\"92941775\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"3211\" height=\"2049\" width_o=\"3211\" height_o=\"2049\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/09786d56c8710bbedb51e1c3b907234707be620d3b115cb9b373f09302185dac\/Leysdown-3.jpg\" data-mid=\"92941323\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"3171\" height=\"1925\" width_o=\"3171\" height_o=\"1925\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/db850b714b9c99731adf21460c1050400ca0225c1b7a4222189b6df6cbfafd7c\/Leysdown-4.jpg\" data-mid=\"92941325\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/98c8c9bbf91a0f5dc06b5612b9fe16f2bdd0138a8320394af5f2f4652e729a1e\/Leysdown-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941327\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br><h5>\u201cThe bricolage and inspiredly untutored inventiveness of most early twentieth century plotlands is missing. On the shore, half a mile from the village\u2019s centre, there are asbestos and wooden hutments, endlessly buffeted by the howling easterly. Bent bushes try to smother them.\u201d&nbsp; (Meades)<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4eebf3aa6e48792fe979a666248c1713fe1f40a9656c612eafb0cb5083ba3b46\/Leysdown-6.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941328\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c0040981d09544252487ae7b9cca53b8ed6b2f9e1ef5379f7eee327028ec28bd\/Leysdown-7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941753\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/235e857916fb26846a847e97240d5bd783ae65680b9fc2552cc594ce5a4d0d16\/Leysdown-8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92941756\" border=\"0\" \/><h5>\u201cLeysdown on Sea is the ancestral dreamsite of a Lost Tribe: all the aboriginal cockney characteristics, celebrated in fiction and in song, have migrated here \u2013 and have been buried alive in pitches of caravans, mobile homes, wooded sentry boxes (inner-city privies), and upturned tin boats, veterans of Dunkirk.\u201d (Iain Sinclair, <i>Downriver <\/i>(1991, p. 397).<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"1186\" height=\"880\" width_o=\"1186\" height_o=\"880\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4d9758a6e25b0c39301df9e74a78bc9ba608e5731cb4d0d88eb66b3f70434caf\/Screenshot-2020-12-23-at-12.13.22-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"92941280\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"1266\" height=\"936\" width_o=\"1266\" height_o=\"936\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1c67be87860d51c3c189cc9df25c2f620818d794b227b5041cf2f39fe720a74d\/Leysdown-10.png\" data-mid=\"92941485\" border=\"0\" \/><img width=\"1532\" height=\"846\" width_o=\"1532\" height_o=\"846\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/063ee9d71160cf38be198135a56df75257883b5fc518f2d284d6ba4b7773e9a8\/Leysdown-11.png\" data-mid=\"92941487\" border=\"0\" \/><h5><br>Out-of-season objectors aside, Squeeze\u2019s song \u201cPulling Mussels from the Shell\u201d (1980) was inspired by nostalgic memories of family holidays at Leysdown.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/Squeeze\u2019s song, \u201cPulling Mussels from the Shell\u201d, (1980), was inspired by memories of holidays at Leysdown. It is here accompanied by footage from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.&nbsp;\">Here<\/a> it is, accompanied by footage from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.&nbsp;<\/h5><br><br>\n<br><h5>Regeneration: Heavy Lifting by Artists (2009-2013) \n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francisknight.co.uk\/public-realm\/leysdown-rose-tinted\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLeysdown-Rose-Tinted\u201d<\/a><br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"551\" height=\"350\" width_o=\"551\" height_o=\"350\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/50a311701ec74d18b68c3c7b255d55f1c81b1f7b4039926f37ee8a014bf48ca3\/sign_cropped.jpg\" data-mid=\"91552747\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/575d58ffd09b540d7f4d47e9285613c877589e33cad45cfd7bce9ee8bb235926\/IMG_1161.JPG\" data-mid=\"89240235\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4dbc8cf999ba8d285f387791bf8e16b19c838db3af6f220ba2060e6db3ef0883\/IMG_1162.JPG\" data-mid=\"89240194\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<br><br><h5>2. Prora<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"2459\" height=\"1883\" width_o=\"2459\" height_o=\"1883\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/517c90e776fc88b1173513984eff3e2c2842a8432df7468818f04cf5bf9a4c83\/Prora-1-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"92005341\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A wall in the Documentation Centre at Prora\" data-caption=\"A wall in the Documentation Centre at Prora\"\/>\n<br><h5>Whatever may be said about the laissez-faire mess that is Leysdown-on-Sea, it was never as dismal as the colossal resort of Prora, built in the late Thirties as part of the Nazi government\u2019s \u201cStrength through Joy\u201d initiative. Conceived as one of five vast \u201cSea Baths\u201d proposed for workers following the destruction of Germany\u2019s trade unions, it consists of a series of huge six-floor concrete blocks placed along the 4.5 kilometre length of a magnificent Baltic beach on the spit connecting Sassnitz and Binz on the eastern coast of the Pomeranian Island of R\u00fcgen.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bc147e0e23b9f0d1a98f6da5fe4b5db3cd9714b692ad6e7dfe03b73a0a89c2ba\/Prora-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005342\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1e9dc705930ebcc61f3ef124dbc0373db5fcb9372cea72cc153bee14a6713414\/Prora-3.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005343\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/091357721057d4969536a0f1228a80bf0974c40da1152d733a59a16b1c62bbcf\/Prorta-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005354\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6031eddfe0a26c28890b6c0ab2067ad09a5e2f6298d7710f21e4068c7858650a\/Prota-4.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005355\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/bfdf7432a4732af433249d4eba41b6425ae0424bfc577b6875c720494a039b6d\/5Prora-5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005340\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br><h5>Robert Ley, the Nazi head of the German Labour Front (Uwe Johnson allows him a brief appearance in <i>Anniversaries<\/i> as a \u201cdrunken pig\u201d), imagined Prora as a Nazi answer to Butlins that would provide compliant workers with a week of indoctrinated leisure. Every room would have a sea view. There would be cinemas, swimming pools, canteens and, at Hitler\u2019s insistence, a central arena in which twenty thousand joyful workers could be addressed as a concentrated Sieg Heiling mass.<br>\n\n\n\n <\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"2096\" height=\"3724\" width_o=\"2096\" height_o=\"3724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d7f96e98c5edb75e5bcf4027bf7d772be79a8decd0f63124e94781d90207fd15\/Prora-5.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005344\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/35f1bc38c5f00bbe36c5152bfad7d35eade281a5c500422fe9c713cbb08730c4\/Prora-7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005348\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/73dcf824d21b764d299cd94cab6537081706aa6ba95e6b264f0301b4bcfb3ae4\/Prora-7.5.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005345\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/3b8eed2fcde05032743d080a4b051c0c1f0a500990e7d1cd39945466204a1866\/Prora-7.7.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005346\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"2048\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1e97940068ade27c939405d61db962e523af96cf45f95b44a3262d204bfb47a6\/Prora-7.8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005347\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/4eb8413cddd28cdf6833e818f45aaac7ce6532a9165cbb6a4f60a934a5d9b9b7\/Prora-8.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005349\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6c7eabd746a0a989b81c4af713a03464ed59be4a7ffd497c669a1d29418f5c2e\/Prtra-9.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005356\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a9c34395c7413321d0b5dd9f09c571a85ea9ccbc719de5b551a048dd5eb9e809\/Prora-10.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005352\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8bb8c9ea8d76ca363bd975d411bce333173912c762a9165dd839ba24519364a6\/Prors-6.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92005353\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<h5>In 1991 this never-completed line of Aryan barracks (construction was interrupted by the outbreak of war in September 1939) emerged from GDR military control as a set of disconcerting ruins. When we last visited the site, some of its reinforced concrete was acquiring an unexpectedly luxurious shine. The developers who had bought some of the blocks, themselves now listed for conservation, were bringing them to new life, although not as the centre for refugees that some critics have suggested might be appropriate. Two-bedroom apartments with new balconies were being offered at \u20ac600,000 and upward.<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490858645?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 360px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br><br><h5><a href=\" https:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20180808\/investor-turning-nazi-indoctrination-camp-into-luxury-apartments-goes-bust\" target=\"_blank\">The Investor shipwrecked.<\/a><br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><h6><br>\nOne Window: Two Ships<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h6><br><h5>\u201cIt all revolved around the view. It was the view that was appropriated.\u201d <br>\n\u2014 Uwe Johnson, on Riverside Park, \u201cA Part of New York,\u201d 1968 <br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7f30b412efb29e5e14ce625cd1e683bdd49b2aab8518b598112af8c4a8538d8c\/DSCN0298.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91668705\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2413\" height=\"3625\" width_o=\"2413\" height_o=\"3625\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/6aa1bae34ce427fd7ab66251723986987d0f55bb5fd5b5aafd99acb7ed3a67ed\/IMG_0712-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"91669059\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2304\" height=\"2304\" width_o=\"2304\" height_o=\"2304\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7cf1f90c3a1e405feefaf047cf40c21e512d6a04014926241fc697c6e108f6cb\/IMG_0606.jpeg\" data-mid=\"91668931\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br><h5>\u201cIt may be not merely egotistical if I describe to you some views to be seen over the course of a few afternoon hours. Views, namely, out the window, and I wish you could have seen them: the two of us, next to each other, right in front of the house, where the poorer folks from London enjoy disporting themselves on a Sunday like this one, as tourists by the sea, visible only from the waist up to me and my dear wife Mrs. Letsnotdiscussit, and yet still a valuable warning about the lack of, or taste in, leisure attire. Following them come the waves of the River Thames, sea-like here, beating against the stones as high or as low as the Royal Geographical Tidal Institute\u2019s calendar permits them to. For an ignorant observer such as myself, they are merely bright white a long way out, a little dirty-looking but choppy in any case; the last third of my visual field, though, is <i>as blue as blue can be, <\/i>magnificently changeable, from pale to gray to strapping within this color. Within and atop this blue, what is there to say to a lady from K\u00f6nigsberg: bathers in various stages of suffering from sunburn, boats with sails in fashionable colorations, some of them even classified and many of them well-suited to offer me certain memories, silent but critical, pertaining to the process of jibing. People paddling, those who let themselves be brought hither and thither by petrol engines, and on the horizon, where cartography would suggest that we should be able to detect the south coast of Essex, merely a difference: not a line, a smudge between water and sky, that educated people label as a horizon and which is therefore mine. And I\u2019ve almost forgotten to admit to you the rude British Petroleum oil tanker that just now went pitching from right to left, from east to west, across the window \u2014 probably because I believe I share your opinion of such objects in one\u2019s field of view.\u201d\n<br>\n<i>\u2014<\/i><i>
46 Uwe Johnson, Letter to Hannah Arendt, 8\/3\/1975<\/i>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n\n<br><br>\n<h6><br>\nThe SS Richard Montgomery:<br>\n \u201cWhat is that thing?\u201d<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h6><br>\n<img width=\"1727\" height=\"470\" width_o=\"1727\" height_o=\"470\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/e512443ccbb68e274b28f92041130dd5e313a7da268e3941c802c2f0a857ed60\/RM12.png\" data-mid=\"92464471\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1732\" height=\"836\" width_o=\"1732\" height_o=\"836\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/0932b4431011a9d1ff73f95cb138c93da729c53345dc11ef8d4e9ed5f78758dc\/RM-2.png\" data-mid=\"92464334\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<h5><br>\n\u201cIn the Thames, about two miles off the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, a cluster of parallel diagonal poles catches one\u2019s eye. They are visible especially at low tide, but also when the tide is eighteen feet higher, because behind them tosses and pitches almost ten miles of the water\u2019s surface as well as, since the Essex coast in the distance quite noticeably veers off to the north, the horizon line under the quickly shifting illuminations of the sky. Whoever moves here to the town of Sheerness, on the northwest corner of the island, is struck by the reflections of the light in the multiply moving mouth of the Thames and North Sea, and at first he thinks those poles are fish traps, blown into a diagonal position by a ferocious west wind, since the eye is easily fooled about distances when looking out across a boundless body of water; the black triangle that becomes visible between the poles at ebb tide can easily be taken for a fishing boat with underlying property rights. Whoever has moved here and has decided he is in need of binoculars will find himself losing faith in those fish traps, since for two weeks they are not moved once, and furthermore the poles are of unequal length, and in a strangely regular relationship with one another, and located too close to the central waterway. What is that thing?\u201d<br>\u2014 U.J. \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d (1979)<br>\n\n\n\n <\/h5><br>\n\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d60c3c50e9a05c2d8c59bf06289e4c14169dbd09e3de3635b78ecdd84cad7ea8\/DSCN0054.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88702817\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8bb6f54b6aedd67ccae3a399b89bfe04e72ebb07bd1ba894c4fe3cdec8f8dfa7\/DSCN0261.jpg\" data-mid=\"88702814\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<h5><br>\n\u201cOur one sight worth seeing\u201d\n<br>\n\u201cEither we\u2019ll go down wet, or we\u2019ll go up in a fireball\u201d<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"1688\" height=\"826\" width_o=\"1688\" height_o=\"826\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/23909e599fb25be5cf587ecf6f6872b175628cdf143a35845d57c85957bc868e\/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.02.55.png\" data-mid=\"92464335\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1366\" height=\"902\" width_o=\"1366\" height_o=\"902\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1c37380b62f21f4afd01370681caf5f7d68d385431a3e2958a780440a23f7edb\/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.03.24.png\" data-mid=\"92464336\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1274\" height=\"944\" width_o=\"1274\" height_o=\"944\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/59e1e60a8b822baf4a418d69ede53009ec8f914cceba0412709080b942b25282\/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.04.12.png\" data-mid=\"92464337\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490859325?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 338px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<h5>The Explosion<\/h5><br><h5>\u201cAn explosion of this mixture will be among the largest in human memory, if you leave aside the nuclear ones. If you take the <i>Richard Montgomery <\/i>as the centre of a circle with a radius of two miles, the first land to be hit will be the northwest corner of the island, with the town and port of Sheerness. The older buildings and unreinforced walls will collapse, and the gas and water pipes will shatter. Within a radius of seven miles, broken glass and the collapse of any wobbly chimneys or loose roofs are likely. That circle includes half of the town of Sittingbourne, as well as the oil port and refinery complex on the Isle of Grain, west of Sheppey. The detonation may cause a fireball whose air pressure will fling heavy objects and debris more than a mile, perhaps into one of the supertankers with a hundred thous
46and tons of oil in its belly. (The <i>Richard Montgomery<\/i> lies near the extremely busy shipping channel of the Thames. A few miles farther north, Her Royal Highness\u2019s Ministry of Defence maintains and runs a naval artillery range in the ocean, whose detonations reach the windows of Sheerness like fist blows.) A simultaneous explosion of the whole cargo will cause a tidal wave to rush up the Medway and Thames rivers, destroying additional settlements near the banks. At low tide, the effects would be multiplied, due to there being less water to absorb the shock. The ultimate extent of the damage will be determined by the weather. Any heavy, low-lying cloud cover above the exploding cargo of bombs will bounce back ascending shock waves and the multiple ricochets will reach Canvey Island, ten miles upstream, where they will hit storage tanks with a holding capacity of almost forty thousand barrels of oil as well as chemical and methane gas containers. A chain reaction or domino effect could produce damage in the eastern suburbs of London, to a greater or lesser extent. It is unlikely that the House of Commons or Whitehall would be affected.\u201d<br>\n\u2014 UJ \u201cAn Unfathomable Ship\u201d<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5ea713e2c272c508d97da3d61931a05c45383bd2146f1f9b4cc3a12887036b4e\/4BA85103-CBED-4D3D-89EA-8B7D15E9F3E2_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299143\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/c9790ecb4b6462e2e41b2a1b10417ff1f1b4c6ff5701a2252ec090936a2c75f4\/FD4630BC-59CD-43A8-9AF4-87990C8EFDAB_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89299060\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9fb52781189b058f5826f7427b546c819dae3bc909ce3a967bf20102800034da\/BA6575F9-D3EE-4ACC-84EE-4D4F5D81EFB8_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695638\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/009025d82e5074f97958ac8b95d4d9f1fa85a3ee7924641fc7a5d83260ba96ea\/05EA9976-3407-4F48-A592-1EDA0E7171F7_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695627\" border=\"0\" \/>\n\n\n<br>\n<br><br><br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<h6>The Cap Arcona<\/h6><h5><\/h5><br>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/04aaf74767828b6ddab4ef8e78376597b12a0361bebbbc8b0dfe5619b64f698f\/DSCN0533-2.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88728380\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n \n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/5c06aff3618e06a64d0aaecb20877778c34d966db26c34e80c2b9fda224e67f2\/A004C307_171130SV_CANON-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88870034\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"2362\" height=\"1329\" width_o=\"2362\" height_o=\"1329\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/8d6b0bdc05b45182a74c20f34c5cc0f6e84afa23c831012ad922b9df66faad0a\/A004C319_171130LK_CANON-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"88793819\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" width_o=\"4608\" height_o=\"3456\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2be80adb189f0d05af9dabfe0d477e3d1d3d9e110df418db08c7a7c22969e11a\/DSCN0586.JPG\" data-mid=\"88594992\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/a92decfefb97610fbc93a00284e408b77b7cc07f87c5cf36f82e6d38e83b9003\/5E2BEEC8-5CEE-4CB4-B4FD-7A262ED23302_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88695786\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"768\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d90c649b7958536e69a72551473ca11cbc0c4dc82c89fc9182435d08e023b7ce\/BB1B207B-6A95-4AC3-836E-6C760F01FE62_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88728396\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480034253?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><h5><br>\nMany other such maritime explosions have been brought to mind by people trying to come to terms with the devastation threatening the Thames estuary from the SS Richard Montgomery. Local examples included the battleship HMS Bulwark, which exploded when moored off Sheerness on 26 November 1914, disappearing in a few seconds, with a loss of 741 men; and also the minelaying liner HMS Princess Irene, which went up killing 352, many of them local dockyard workers, in another disaster six months later. As will be known to readers of <i>Anniversaries III<\/i>, the exploding ships at the back of Johnson\u2019s mind as he looked out on the masts of the&nbsp;<i>Richard Montgomery, <\/i>included one that took its name from the northernmost point of the Baltic island of R\u00fcgen. &nbsp;<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br><img width=\"715\" height=\"556\" width_o=\"715\" height_o=\"556\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/857c6d468c4141cce740fb02768513b3d5e0972a150603f122359aa1e5ef67ce\/gm_cap_arcona_art_01.jpg\" data-mid=\"92464332\" border=\"0\" \/><br>\n<br><h5>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy 1927, the chalky headland and lighthouse called Cap Arkona had given rise to an ocean-going liner: built and launched that year for the Hamburg-South American Line\u201d, the SS Cap Arcona was a \u201cfloating palace\u201d that became famous as the fastest most luxuri
46ous ship on the route for Latin America. Requisitioned during the Second World War, it was used as a barrack at the Baltic port of Gotenhafen, now restored to Poland as Gdynia. By the last days of the war in 1945, its engines had been burnt out during three desperate voyages shipping Germans west from the Russian advance, and it was moored in Neustadt Bay, not far from L\u00fcbeck. As Allied forces approached from the West, prisoners from various abandoned concentration camps were crammed aboard the Cap Arcona and other ships including a cargo vessel named the SS Thielbeck, and left to whatever dire fate awaited them.<\/h5><h5><br>\nAs Johnson writes, \u201cFreedom came across the bright sunny bay on May 3 in the shape of a squadron of British bombers.\u201d Actually Typhoon fighter bombers from four squadrons were involved in the operation. They used rockets to sink the Cap Arcona and Thielbeck, along with several other undefended ships, and then came back to&nbsp;machine gun survivors<br>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1834\" height=\"1288\" width_o=\"1834\" height_o=\"1288\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/45207ba34be6b27a34d324a36c310031f9fcdb04b1ed10c63eae2606c63257f6\/IMG_1953-copy.jpg\" data-mid=\"92938292\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SS. Cap Arcona, 1948\" data-caption=\"SS. Cap Arcona, 1948\"\/>\n<br>\n in the water. Those who survived that second assault, faced the prospect of being murdered by SS and other killers if they made it onto beaches at Timmendorfer, Priwall and Travemunde.. Between seven and eight thousand people of thirty differtent nationalities are said to have died. Corpses would turn up on scattered beaches for decades to come. Long before Remembrance Day was drafted into the service of Brexit, survivors had noted \u2014 with various degrees of anger and dismay \u2014 that the Cap Arcona disaster has not been allowed to disturb British commemoration of the Second World War.<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><br>\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490857169?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Timmendorfer Strand\"><\/iframe>\n\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490858244?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Houses next to the old cemetery, Kl\u00fctz, Mecklenburg\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n<iframe frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490857802?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-caption=\"Memomrial to 16 identified victims of the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n<br>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/f05cc810da7a082a0f26226a1b12f19b126bf8a32e282dc24e6ba6ecbfd4b872\/CE6FEE93-0CD0-491E-B595-31DFE1A89CE7_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489696\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The old cemetery, Kl&uuml;tz\" data-caption=\"The old cemetery, Kl\u00fctz\"\/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/623f383fabd4968bf3a20b6343ee55bffbecaa3081ed956b7a09771e96d6496c\/76EC92A6-4878-4208-B278-EE91FFDF17CF_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489690\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/dacf711a357d27726511cd931f95c733ca340546dd1fa931ae8abf77cadf538b\/C894DE84-57C7-42B7-B11E-A5D8CBF4EDE9_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489701\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/31f40dd8484fa6a14f259e6807b7d0e051ebbb3dc69f735967a6cc2f16ace71f\/84B597D4-CAAC-4244-BB79-84994DBEF23B_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489703\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1086\" height=\"724\" width_o=\"1086\" height_o=\"724\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/1c4b299a9050c6cdab68425e98c1331f0ad0e34920742165c76fbf5ece7a348f\/410943C7-D034-4127-A7BF-3A309B5E4933_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"89489705\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br><br><br>\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<h6>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sheerness Wall<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h6><br><h5>Johnson knew the Berlin version well, but his last months were plagued by the construction of a very different wall directly across the road from his window.<br><br><\/h5><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490867831?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 338px;\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><h5>\n<\/h5><h5>\n<br>\n\u201cI have, no doubt, let fall a word or two about the inexorable pollution and impoverishment of the city of Sheerness. Now I am obliged to add the fact, impossible to make up, that the offices of Southern Water intend to protect this grimy, insignificant locale by raising the flood wall even higher in front of this row of houses. Preceding this undertaking must necessarily come the removal of the existing embankment with all its garages, storerooms, and the concrete wall on top, that is, a to and fro of heavy machinery from excavators to the wading crane with its fat cement noggin. As a result, Southern Water has sent representatives of a sworn surveyor\u2019s firm into every house to determine and record its architectural condition in anticipation of the claims they expect from residents as a consequence of the demolition and reconstruction. In other words, we have to reckon with the chance of collapsing walls, likewise of cracking windows. I mention all this in no way expecting that it will make me feel better to complain (a hypothesis all too amply disproven), but merely to discourage you for a time, say two years or so, from asking how I\u2019m doing. You will know the answer already: Aggrieved.\u201d &nbsp;<br>\n\n\u2014 Uwe Johnson, letter to Burgel Zeeh, 26 August 1982<br>\n<br>\n\n\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" width_o=\"1024\" height_o=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/18442e9fca4825ee005639d8f0b3a3754f45e26b9af6361f6ce15a4c8fbccc0e\/3A949764-5950-4A2C-B13F-39EF2D8C6548_1_105_c.jpeg\" data-mid=\"92477783\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<br>\nBuilt by Southern Water along the full length of Marine Parade in 1983-4, Sheerness\u2019 new Sea Defence Wall was higher than 
46its oredecessor, but it was not build without some aesthetic effort. The engineers recognised the difficulty of integrating a high concrete rampart with the 19th century buildings that would be facing it from across the street. They consequently hired the architectural firm of Garnham Wright Associates, to design a \u201crusticated\u201d surface that might help their colossal barrier settle into the increasingly flood-prone town.<br>\n\n\n\n<br>\n\n\n\n<\/h5><img width=\"1270\" height=\"1800\" width_o=\"1270\" height_o=\"1800\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/9c7cde4eb645da20a587b5ccaed8f2d9fd0d1beccfe7df0db6a4af3cd6241054\/Screenshot-2020-12-17-at-16.41.27.png\" data-mid=\"92469870\" border=\"0\" \/><br><h5><br>\nThe trade journal <i>Cement and Concrete Quarterly<\/i> celebrated Garnham Wright\u2019s design, commending the playfulness with which the architect proposed a seaside form of English pop art. Johnson, however, hated it. A few months before he died, in February 1984, he told his artist neighbour, Martin Aynscomb Harris, that the still unfinished \u201crusticated\u201d and graffiti-resisting rampart reminded him of the works of Hitler\u2019s preferred architect, Albert Speer.<br>\n<br>\n\n<img width=\"1722\" height=\"952\" width_o=\"1722\" height_o=\"952\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/7397ce275a223be0416bc7d70d854071517ada9e46287a4cc592af8f49f7f218\/Screenshot-2020-12-17-at-18.18.31.png\" data-mid=\"92478281\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<img width=\"1716\" height=\"952\" width_o=\"1716\" height_o=\"952\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/2b1ea90a92c9fa6e14d47e2236a30a07b20c1f34d88f352f6bc76fdd37fd7694\/Screenshot-2020-12-17-at-18.18.12.png\" data-mid=\"92478314\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/h5><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\t\n\n\t<br><br>\n<br>\n<br>\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490868458?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"\"><\/iframe><br>\n\t\n\t<h5>Vehicle passing shutters in the room that was once Johnson\u2019s basement office<\/h5>\n\t\n<br>\n\n\n\n\n<br><h5><\/h5>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<br><br><br><br>\n<br>\n<br><br>\n<br>\n\t\n\t<h2><a href=\"The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again\" rel=\"history\">More about the project<\/a> \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<br>\n<a href=\"The-Book\" rel=\"history\">More about the book<\/a> \ue04b\ufe0e\ufe0e\ufe0e<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\n<br>\n\n\t\n\t<h3><a href=\"The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again\" rel=\"history\">The Sea View<br>Has Me Again:<br>Uwe Johnson <br>in Sheerness<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\n<br>\n<br><img width=\"3072\" height=\"1728\" width_o=\"3072\" height_o=\"1728\" data-src=\"https:\/\/freight.cargo.site\/t\/original\/i\/d891f30026c5deea314cf8f2e619ecaef71bf8b5b3eab842dbc01403dd18ed71\/IMG_0809.jpeg\" data-mid=\"88099515\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Northeast corner of Georgian dockyard wall\" data-caption=\"Northeast corner of Georgian dockyard wall\"\/>","thumb":"87143274","thumb_meta":{"thumbnail_crop":{"percentWidth":"177.74436090225564","marginLeft":-38.8722,"marginTop":0,"imageModel":{"id":87143274,"project_id":15993945,"image_ref":"{image 26}","name":"5AFF2A65-5AD5-4638-982B-3FA48C6A3A94_1_105_c.jpeg","hash":"d491efd41de63ef3f1bcdf346e5827c4eda87cec20252d4c6977f2c151f7d51a","width":1182,"height":665,"sort":0,"exclude_from_backdrop":false,"date_added":"1604053985"},"stored":{"ratio":56.260575296108,"crop_ratio":"1x1"},"cropManuallySet":true}},"thumb_is_visible":false,"sort":19,"index":0,"set_id":15993942,"page_options":{"using_local_css":true,"local_css":"[local-style=\"15993945\"] .container_width {\n\twidth: 50% \/*!variable_defaults*\/;\n}\n\n[local-style=\"15993945\"] body {\n\tbackground-color: initial \/*!variable_defaults*\/;\n}\n\n[local-style=\"15993945\"] .backdrop {\n\twidth: calc(100% - 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253<a href="About-Patrick" rel="history">About Patrick Wright</a><br>
254<a href="News-and-Recent-publications" rel="history">News and Recent Communications</a><br><a href="Book-list" rel="history">Books</a>&nbsp;<br>
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287	<div grid-col="6" grid-pad="0" class=""><h1>“ I don’t think there’s been a more original British cultural historian over the last forty years than Patrick Wright . . . he’s always textured, droll, a diviner who addresses topics and intuits significance years—often decades—before other more garlanded commentators.”</h1><br>
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292<h1>“This is the most depressing book I have read in years... It is ghastly to imagine the sort of ghoul who could wring so much as a furtive snigger from the calamities Wright logs.”<small>
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307<h1>“The publishers’ blurb states, ‘<i>Tank</i> is not a conventional work of military history.’&nbsp; Amen to that”<br>
308<small>John Keegan, TLS,</small><br><br>
309<br>“. . . thorough, discerning, compassionate but not all-licensing...”.<small>Max de Gaynesford, <i>London Magazine</i></small><br><br>
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345<br><br><h1>“. . . an unusual historian—following by-ways normally overlooked by these eyes more firmly fixed on the mainstream.&nbsp; We should treasure his waywardness.”&nbsp;</h1><small>Paul Lay, <i>History Today</i></small><br><br>
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347<h1>“. . . a shrewd and cynical commentator.”</h1><small>Penelope Lively,<i> Daily Telegraph</i></small><br><br>
348<br><h1>“The historical material he gathers is designed to suggest that if you are saddened by seeing green fields built over, if you oppose giant road schemes, if you think Britain is overpopulated, then you are probably a racist and a fascist, and do not deserve to have your arguments taken seriously.”</h1><small>John Carey<i> Sunday Times</i></small><br><br>
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434<h1>Patrick Wright is&nbsp; Emeritus Professor of Literature, History and Politics at King’s College London. Many publishers have fled. No agents have survived. Details and contact <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-patrick-wright" target="_blank">here.</a><br>
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613	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h2><a href="The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again" rel="history">“The most involving and originally-conceived social history of modern England to have appeared in decades” (Patrick McGuinness).<br><br>
614More about the project</a>&nbsp;︎︎︎<br>
615<a href="The-Book" rel="history">More about the book</a>&nbsp;︎︎︎</h2><h2>Shona Illingworth’s Sound Work for Estuary Festival 2021<a href="https://www.estuaryfestival.com/event/detail/the-sea-view-has-me-again-patrick-wright-shona-illingworth.html" target="_blank" class="icon-link">︎︎︎</a></h2><br>
616<br>
617<h2>Another<a href="The-Book" rel="history">&nbsp;German in Sheerness</a>?<br>
618 <br><a href="England-s-Last-Acceptable-Asylum-Seeker-The-Lesson-of-the-Piano-Man" rel="history">England’s Last Acceptable Asylum Seeker? The Legend of the Piano Man&nbsp; ︎︎︎</a></h2><br>
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627	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><h3><a href="The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again" rel="history">The Sea View<br>Has Me Again:<br>Uwe Johnson <br>in Sheerness</a></h3><br>
628<h7>With filmlets by Shona Illingworth, who joined the investigation in 2017,&nbsp;<br>
629and translations from Uwe Johnson’s German by Damion Searls.</h7><br>
630<h7>[Some of the images are arranged as click-through galleries, including the first one below]<br>
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651<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2eac615d011a17e5a246022318d8c65e1bda57bca1a8e7039c32c5ca06ce61b/DSCN0146.jpeg" data-mid="87497680" border="0" alt="Ahrenshoop, Fischland" data-caption="Ahrenshoop, Fischland"/>
652<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fe2a294bba203849ffb4ee9aedd7378ce3c2109cd032a0d6e3d0f3becce91dd/A002C415_171201TN_CANON.tiff42-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="88730198" border="0" alt="Prora, R&uuml;gen" data-caption="Prora, Rügen"/>
653<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ee6bb3d4fc77f635f18e6005d89eb5908cafce9387751f02f524a06362d6884/IMG_2920.jpeg" data-mid="89911324" border="0" alt="Prora, R&uuml;gen" data-caption="Prora, Rügen"/>
654<img width="1280" height="960" width_o="1280" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69a1b3d84d4920aae42d325755df5278200cdff86c62c6ad22b3297653f3c11e/thumbnail_IMG_2974.jpg" data-mid="87933117" border="0" alt="Rostock" data-caption="Rostock"/>
655<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1a702b4423a238e6be907f22110390741924f3b15f780fda96e2dfc35d1909c/A004C246_17112767_CANON-copy.jpg" data-mid="88792716" border="0" alt="Priwall" data-caption="Priwall"/>
656<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3d9df6e2dd973d562d47af906c4cf2515296415b8348d167292e516369ee070/Two-Ships-test29-copy.jpg" data-mid="88796232" border="0" alt="Timmendorfer Strand" data-caption="Timmendorfer Strand"/>
657<img width="1474" height="943" width_o="1474" height_o="943" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7825a9c730e2ea3ceaf84a9a580f30c37962fed98beeb16dcf55cc9a999dda3f/s-l1600.jpg" data-mid="88796868" border="0" alt="Riverside Park, New York" data-caption="Riverside Park, New York"/>
658<img width="3288" height="2100" width_o="3288" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/765ea2e5610a7954fb7557b74ade841b36779cac305ab838bf4a446321c645f5/Scan-6.jpeg" data-mid="88095
658511" border="0" alt="Staten Island, New York" data-caption="Staten Island, New York"/>
659<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31c6b44729bc093460fc56658cd04bf4f92101796695cbc275f4b2c3bd40c090/Two-Ships-test21.tiff192-copy-3.jpg" data-mid="87290019" border="0" alt="Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson&rsquo;s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)" data-caption="Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson’s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)"/>
660<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f61834b5e5786b6b1869a8def414601fe893420bc7303a84f340cec49e5a9bb6/Two-Ships-test7-copy.jpg" data-mid="88730178" border="0" alt="Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson&rsquo;s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)" data-caption="Sheerness-on-Sea (from Johnson’s living room at 26 Marine Parade, Sheerness)"/>
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665	<div grid-col="x12" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/480034981?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="width: 640px; height: 360px;" class="" data-caption="East from Prora" data-scale="100"></iframe>
666</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br><h5>East from Prora</h5></div></div>
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670<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/480215336?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" class=""></iframe></div>
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672<h5>South from Zingst
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675<h6>A Life Beside Rivers<br></h6></div>
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688	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><h5>“It would be fair to say that I have a thing for rivers. It’s true, I grew up on the Peene in Anklam, the Nebel flows through Güstrow, I have traveled to and in Rostock on the Warnow, Leipzig presented me with the Pleisse and the Elster, Manhattan is surrounded by the Hudson and East and North Rivers, I also recall a Hackensack River, and for the past three years I have had on offer outside my window the River Thames where it turns into the North Sea”.<br>— Uwe Johnson, “About Myself” 1977</h5><br><br>
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701<img width="600" height="597" width_o="600" height_o="597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e47f23636103bbe29ae9f85b24a086c4c62e288c8386baf04d9379e43c51fbc/H508YA-copy-1.jpg" data-mid="87384117" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Uwe Johnson, 1 March 1973 (Alamy)" data-caption="Uwe Johnson, 1 March 1973 (Alamy)"/>
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708<h4>The story of a great East German novelist, and the things he thought and saw during the nine years he lived as a voluntary castaway on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.</h4></div>
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717	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><div style="text-align: right"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>Isle of Sheppey cemetery,<br>Halfway</h6>
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723<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/480060261?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" class=""></iframe></div>
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729	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h5>“He was a kind man often misunderstood because of his abrupt manner. He had no time for idle conversation or banalities. He sparred with words. He was a verbal heavyweight, an intellectual whose politics were very much to the left.”</h5><h5>— Martin Aynscomb Harris (artist and Johnson’s neighbour in Sheerness), March 1984.</h5><h5><i></i></h5></div>
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733<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/480215155?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" class=""></iframe></div><br>
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737	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h5>“Now it’s quiet, the asphalt mirror of Riverside Drive shows us the treetops in their close friendship with the sky.”</h5><h5>— Uwe Johnson, after a storm in New York City, <i>Anniversaries IV</i></h5></div>
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745	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>The Writer <br>Who Chose a New Name<br></h6>
746<br>
747<div style="text-align: left;"><h7>Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in 
748the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the <i>Kent Evening Post</i>. “Charles” was the name he offered to his new acquaintances, and he didn’t encourage curiosity about his past or the circumstances that had brought him to their town.</h7><br>
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759	<div grid-col="5" grid-pad="1.25"><h7>The novelist Uwe Johnson was born in 1934 in
760Cammin, Pomerania, and lived his first ten years with his parents and sister in
761Anklam, where his father, a trained agriculturalist, worked as supervisor of a dairy. In
7621944, he was sent inland to board at a German Home School run by the SS in
763Kosten (now Koscian and in Poland). <br><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A6%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
764<img width="3231" height="2079" width_o="3231" height_o="2079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c4c6f96986a40fadbc5e1b0fee0a3b3952d3cac7beb3425ea51752683f5f6fb/Scan-34-copy.jpg" data-mid="91328466" border="0" alt="Amidon Remy, Postcard of the German Empire, c. 1910" data-caption="Amidon Remy, Postcard of the German Empire, c. 1910"/>
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767<img width="1819" height="1288" width_o="1819" height_o="1288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/829500635ead8687adc76162e8e919f2aef100207f68b089e7fdf9fc80bddc51/IMG_0114.jpeg" data-mid="91674823" border="0" alt="Shell, road map of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, 1930s." data-caption="Shell, road map of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, 1930s."/>
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769As the Red Army advanced from the
770East in 1945, Johnson and his family joined the chaotic flight west, finding
771refuge in the small estate village of Recknitz, in Mecklenburgh, <br><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A8%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
772<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfeb2f9cf9e29300ec183889645f80721c126b16e9fe6d60843ca7f4e704aae0/1.--Smithy-window-DSCN0720.jpeg" data-mid="91447858" border="0" alt="Recknitz" data-caption="Recknitz"/>
773<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b91f57c8aa04dccc7e3ae773d730c553c1159d2960557db968407de55dbd93bb/2.-Smith-wall-DSCN0721.jpeg" data-mid="91447859" border="0" />
774<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c74cf4f6732cfc22244f81a2169d19803030b3830cefdf33513fc2a326359441/3.-Old-Smith-side.jpeg" data-mid="91447860" border="0" />
775<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03eed7eda520b92a9fdb00fb5aa777061b5e67dd72e5ffd92485f7a490182af9/4.-The-Old-Smithy.jpeg" data-mid="91447861" border="0" />
776<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03eed7eda520b92a9fdb00fb5aa777061b5e67dd72e5ffd92485f7a490182af9/4.-The-Old-Smithy.jpeg" data-mid="91447861" border="0" />
777<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/164bd6d41073e2108af38e1179ef491226cceddc9b1915c6bda092c2a0eb5656/5.-The-Old-Smithy.jpeg" data-mid="91447863" border="0" />
778<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/babab656ed23d9f98d766015263849035b5e63f0c84c7ed709cc78077742288f/6.-Garden-with-logs-and--hens.jpeg" data-mid="91447864" border="0" />
779<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d987c6be84894f0f38ceb899436422fcfb16dbb629d99805a5fbd8701c22bd38/7.-Barn.jpeg" data-mid="91447865" border="0" />
780<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/300af1f984f007c1f1ef36a300767c8d74b9ccb1c14742d9c23c9d16f04d9ff1/8.-Barns.jpeg" data-mid="91447866" border="0" />
781<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d987c6be84894f0f38ceb899436422fcfb16dbb629d99805a5fbd8701c22bd38/7.-Barn.jpeg" data-mid="91447865" border="0" />
782<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/733d05aef031273fd7d18750e8ad0f06d78a84c7b6e12750982e6c4c31945ecb/9.-Barn-door.jpeg" data-mid="91447867" border="0" />
783<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45caf845c4b32d88b5c9a54c1
783705925c5c74bb14ff9dcaf7f59859f46c915e78/14.5-old-mortar-by-church-tower.jpeg" data-mid="91447873" border="0" />
784<img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/75fd1632b55dbeece082b1820fd44d1a4aaa12ed5d243056d7e3d027b274a470/14-St-Bartholomews-Church.jpeg" data-mid="91447872" border="0" />
785<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3a6b9c3f4a5955d5af2a982aeed323f26ae41d77d14a99cef26690b39ee43b4/10.-Owl-sign.jpeg" data-mid="91447868" border="0" />
786<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a795495f81cb17ca8269999ed0f2b23bec7f779a735672588fa67f1f8a15a1a/11.-Augraben-ditch.jpeg" data-mid="91447869" border="0" />
787<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f17bded011df53d66688342c450d25d3146b239f76c2eab31d557cac56bd8ac9/12.-Augraben-ditch.jpeg" data-mid="91447870" border="0" />
788<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/114c817390a28b72f31db9bc83c7aaea6525ac2f8622229e6e9fc1a3b7003a69/13.-Churchyard-gate.jpeg" data-mid="91447871" border="0" />
789<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4872181dcd972eb61407042a22e6e8b2ff53020ac86f21a01f359693a5c4d456/15.-House-from-Churchyard.jpeg" data-mid="91447874" border="0" alt="Recknitz" data-caption="Recknitz"/>
790<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7094ff018649fae7c289b0daded86501fe5f88045e2621c3375e0151757a704f/16.-Memorial.jpeg" data-mid="91447875" border="0" />
791</div>where they stayed with Johnson’s paternal
792aunt and brother-in-law at the smithy. The father was incarcerated by the
793Russians shortly afterwards, and never seen again (he was declared dead a few
794years later). From Recknitz, the family then moved to the nearby town of Güstrow&nbsp;<br>
795<br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A9%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
796<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/093b3d89c6e6bb98a24dcf58c4503d82dba47ce2634ebfe8995b917602e4243b/Gustrow-3.5.jpeg" data-mid="91448725" border="0" alt="G&uuml;strow" data-caption="Güstrow"/>
797<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1953a4e4b2e202b4c217cb47e13d8f9b4a0c0ec6e698ded62defc000f23ae57/Gustrow-3.6..jpeg" data-mid="91448726" border="0" />
798<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e1142b4c25e494934e975c738d4c79e7639bc5e82eab18ce2dd8ab045f9d03d/Gustrow-3.7.jpeg" data-mid="91448727" border="0" />
799<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8696161775b539c7715a4c14472f87d031242609537e95fb7c608ef37f23f37e/Guatrow-4.jpeg" data-mid="91448717" border="0" />
800<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31fb3984e89cef09f65e1075db56483e6f3acddbae636fd51da16e2fb53a337d/Gustrow-5.jpeg" data-mid="91448728" border="0" />
801<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c923bc8b7aa23d02444125934f65add6f2ffa60b9bbcb916e4627ecec7b336d9/Gustrow-6.jpeg" data-mid="91448731" border="0" />
802<img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a96f5fad504f2387259856117da8595b5ef68d92a82b38e8c76efe28dfd9beae/Gustrow-7.jpeg" data-mid="91448741" border="0" />
803<img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65385bb9242df615d0363497755fa3236c4980f75cf1eebc32c45cf8ea115222/Gustrow-8.jpeg" data-mid="91448752" border="0" />
804<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e53ddd38f734d98de002e62d834a6f0875a1d54eeaaaa032449663498d0b656/Gustrow-9.jpeg" data-mid="91448754" border="0" />
805<img width="1077" height="729" width_o="1077" height_o="729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6eaec632d809756e4895730a50cc7b0467d81fb87b5269511db90f181d47364a/Guatrow-11.jpeg" data-mid="91448721" border="0" />
806</div>where Johnson attended high school
807at the John Brinckman Gymnasium.<br>
808<br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A10%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
809<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cd3f858719808183effc3f5c3c1fe25a39e617751480c7e4b029010dc7ad22a/Gustrow-1.jpeg" data-mid="91448722" border="0" alt="John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow" data-caption="John Brinckman Gymnasium, Güstrow"/>
810<img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71664c07cc0c29bcbc1f4ae31195233410b296b63bed87438dfef32fe8fdf7f4/Gustrow-2.5.jpeg" data-mid="91448723" border="0" alt="John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow" data-caption="John Brinckman Gymnasium, Güstrow"/>
811<img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0bfc44e62f9afcba48a9c6cdc8b23e5ae475ca2cdb6076376f947306bd8ef6a/Gustrow-2.jpeg" data-mid="91448724" border="0" alt="John Brinckman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow" data-caption="John Brinckman Gymnasium, Güstrow"/>
812</div><br>In 1952 he went to the University at the Baltic port and city of Rostock,&nbsp;<br>
813<br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A11%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
814<img width="3322" height="4429" width_o="3322" height_o="4429" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04aaf76b68cc8b62793e8530b79f8cacb3425bc26d887f1aa7c5e9f05263df18/DSCN1308.jpeg" data-mid="91417308" border="0" alt="Rostock University" data-caption="Rostock University"/>
815</div>where he studied German language and
816literature for two years before being barred from continuing after speaking out in
817defence of the rights of increasingly persecuted Christian students. In
8181954-6, he continued his education at Karl-Marx-University in Leipzig, where he
819studied under Hans Mayer, an independent Marxist literary scholar, who had
820returned to East Germany from the west in the first years of the new state but was already
821falling out with the authorities. He rejected their claims about
822socialist realism and&nbsp;insisting, against official decree, that his
823students should study the works of modern western writers. They read&nbsp; Joyce,
824Sartre and also William Faulkner, whose southern novels were to become a major
825influence on Johnson, who knew what it was for a nation to live with a “tainted past”. <br>
826<br>
827</h7><h7>In 1959, Johnson moved to the West, later
828claiming that he did so for “reasons of hygiene” but not as a refugee who might
829be expected to denounce the GDR and all it stood for as he picked up
830subsidies and other advantages available to those who accepted that
831form of assimilation. He published three novels over the followng six
832years: <i>Speculations About Jakob (1959), The Third Book About
833Achim (1961), andTwo Views</i> (1965). These</h7><br></div>
834	<div grid-col="5" grid-pad="1.25"><h7> bought him a prodigious
835reputation as the so called “writer (dichter) of the divided Germany”, a cliché he greatly
836disliked. He also came under sometimes vitriolic attack from zealots on both
837sides of the political spectrum.</h7><br>
838<br>
839<h7>Johnson addressed these difficulties by travelling out from hemmed-in West Berlin. He spent a
840year on a West German government stipend in Rome&nbsp; in 1962, and later made
841various trips to America: first in 1961, again in 1965, and then for a longer
842period of residence in New York City from 1966-8. The latter stay was
843made possible by the publisher Helen Wolff, who employed him to prepare a
844textbook of post-war German literature (from both sides of the. division) aimed
845at American high school students. <br>
846<br>
847Johnson had been feted as the writer who had done more than any other to create
848a kind of novel capable of articulating the division of Germany into two states with
849one terrible and guilty past. Conceived
850and started during the two years, 1966-1968, during which he lived in New York
851City, the final multi-volume novel that Johnson came to Sheerness in order to complete,
852went beyond Germany to engage a world divided by the Cold War. Each chapter of <i>Anniversaries: from a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl </i>would take a day in the year extending from 21 August 1967 to 20 August
8531968, and it would be written as experienced by Gesine Cresspahl and her ten-year
854old daughter Marie in New York City. Structured as a conversation between
855the two, the narrative would proceed through the events of that
856momentous year: the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the
857assassination of Kennedy etc. It would also explore the longer historical
858experience of the Cresspahl family as it’s generations had lived through the
859traumas and crimes of the twentieth century in Mecklenburg and elsewhere.&nbsp; <br>
860<br>
861<div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A12%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
862<img width="4188" height="4605" width_o="4188" height_o="4605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ef69a553f812765886d4de4d91ceed204007295ed2e759c2d50943bfaeb3f49/Fig-9.1.jpeg" data-mid="89015462" border="0" alt="UJ at Michael Hamburger&rsquo;s house, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 1966 (photo: R. Hamburger)" data-caption="UJ at Michael Hamburger’s house, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 1966 (photo: R. Hamburger)"/>
863<img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cda492de2f3e4e805d97ba0a02730dd10bc4ebb127cf24bf7ad1cad0d6d0bd5e/773A9505-1BB9-45A9-BBCA-8429FA04E35C_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89493101" border="0" alt="Literaturhaous Uwe Johnson, Kl&uuml;tz, Mecklenburg" data-caption="Literaturhaous Uwe Johnson, Klütz, Mecklenburg"/>
864</div>
865<br>
866Having started work on this massive novel in
867New York City, Johnson continued after his return to Berlin. Suhrkamp published
868the first volume in 1970, the second in 1971 and the third in 1974. It was
869in order to complete the fourth and final volume that Johnson then decided
870to remove himself, his wife and their daughter from an increasingly disruptive&nbsp; life in West Berlin and resettle in England. His migration
871was made possible by the Swiss writer
872Max Frisch, who offered to lend Johnson the money he would need to buy a house in England where he could concentrate on his work. Having chosen a property on the Isle of Sheppey, he took care to
873ensure that his neighbours knew very little about him. He would remain in
874Sheerness for nearly a decade, moving into 26 Marine Parade with his wife and
875daughter towards the end of 1974 and remaining there until his death, aged 49,
876in February 1984. &nbsp;<br>
877</h7>
878<br>
879</div>
880	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="1.25"></div>
881</div><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A13%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
882<img width="1136" height="543" width_o="1136" height_o="543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/610c76151671fa826f2e8af810e98324597023165edb00d3147c9727fbe6a803/Uwe-Johnson-am-Inselsee-Guestrow-1953-F.jpg" data-mid="90090827" border="0" alt="UJ overlooking the Inselsee, G&uuml;strow, 1953 (photo: Heinz Lehmbecker)" data-caption="UJ overlooking the Inselsee, Güstrow, 1953 (photo: Heinz Lehmbecker)"/>
883</div><br><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0">
884	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
885	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A14%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
886<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8140fa8fdc9a7eea2784fbc52142eb0666d0e66b605fbe484522f1cd0acfd93/IMG_2799-1-copy.jpg" data-mid="93189052" border="0" alt="Meadow and woo
886ds near Rosenhagen, Mecklenburgh, 31 May 2016 (a landscape of the kind Johnson would keep stacked up in the &quot;cellar of memories&quot; that was his basement office in Sheerness)" data-caption="Meadow and woods near Rosenhagen, Mecklenburgh, 31 May 2016 (a landscape of the kind Johnson would keep stacked up in the &quot;cellar of memories&quot; that was his basement office in Sheerness)"/>
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901	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><h6>Two Memorials to the Dead<br>
902 of the Great War&nbsp;<br>
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922<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aca726df247077ed3a635ae05c02bd2e4671229e66a8be71028794571e6d9fc/Hovering-Angel.jpg" data-mid="92766076" border="0" alt="Ernst Barlach, Hovering Angel, G&uuml;strow Cathedral" data-caption="Ernst Barlach, Hovering Angel, Güstrow Cathedral"/>
923</div><br><h5>Barlach’s non-militaristic memorial was commissioned in 1926 and hangs in Güstrow Cathedral. Johnson wrote a dissertation on Barlach —&nbsp;<a href="https://www.barlach-haus.de/en/museum/collection/">who lived in Güstrow</a> and was among the first artists to be declared “degenerate” by the Nazis — while studying in Leipzig, in the fifties.&nbsp; He had a cast of Barlach’s carving of two <a href="ttps://www.1stdibs.com/art/sculptures/figurative-sculptures/ernst-barlach-ernst-barlach-sculpture-schlaffende-vagabunden-sleeping-drifters-1912/id-a_127536/">“Sleeping Vagabonds”</a> in his house at Sheerness.</h5>
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940	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><h5>Sheerness’s memorial to serving men and civilian dockyard workers lost in the Great War, as photographed on 26 July 2013. The picture at the base shows Fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered by Islamists at Woolwich seven weeks earlier. Johnson used this monument as an orientation point for visitors making their way to his house from the railway station opposite.</h5></div>
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947	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><h6>Man, Reef or “the Brazen Edge <br>
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953<img width="2048" height="3072" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65fbfdb5c8d875125c400545748e6d0c623cc334d01933064aa17e681d35e9d5/IMG_2986.jpeg" data-mid="89956936" border="0" alt="Wieland F&ouml;rster, portrait stele of Uwe Johnson, outside John Brinkman Gymnasium, G&uuml;strow, 2006" data-caption="Wieland Förster, portrait stele of Uwe Johnson, &lt;br&gt;outside John Brinkman Gymnasium, Güstrow, 2006"/>
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962<h5>As friends and acquaintances in Germany already knew, Johnson could be a challenging man: volatile and 
962yet blunt too, and sometimes completely inaccessible. The initially East German writer and politician, Gerhard Zwerenz, described him as “a statue of lost cultures” like the “inscrutable monoliths” of Easter Island. After visiting the Johnsons shortly after their arrival in Sheerness, Gunter Kunert looked back to glimpse him waving from the doorstep: a teetering “colossus” who might at any moment fall and break over his own wife and daughter. Though a unique example of the type, “Charles”
963 was by no means the first brazened-off twentieth century man to take refuge on the Isle of Sheppey.</h5></div>
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968	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>The Bush of Memory</h6></div></div>
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975<h5>Fischland, Staten Island, Isle of Sheppey?</h5></div></div>
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980<h5>Johnson arrived in England from West Berlin, but he came with memories of other places too:&nbsp; the flat Baltic landscapes of Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, to be sure, but also New York — a city that stood at the centre of <i>Anniversaries,</i> the four-volume novel he would eventually complete in England. &nbsp;<br><br>While living on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side&nbsp; in 1968, Johnson had written and read the text for <a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/summerinthecity">”Summer in the City”</a>, a film&nbsp; by the German-born American director Christian Blackwood for West German television.</h5></div>
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990	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0">Blackwood’s original idea was to show Johnson talking with people as he led the camera around the Upper West Side he had come to know while living in an apartment building on Riverside Drive. He eventually decided against appearing in the film, instead providing Blackwood with recommended locations and writing the text he then read as the film’s commentary.&nbsp; In this he&nbsp; praises the activism and the diversity of the “slum” he would, in <i>Anniveraries,</i>&nbsp; liken to a mobile jellyfish slithering about among the brownstones. He remains silent when Blackwood takes his camera into the transvestite world.<br>
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1009<h5>“I am reliably informed about a place where it seems to be no coincidence that a cul-de-sac in this country is not called that, or a <i>dead-end street</i>, but a <i>blind alley</i>. That would already be something” <br>
1010— UJ, letter to Max Frisch, 4 August 1974<br><br>
1011“The chalky, swampy fields on the island are really not at all <i>Garden of England</i> (if indeed any tourist can stand this smug catchphrase any longer than from Dover to Canterbury)”</h5></div>
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1022<img width="3227" height="2026" width_o="3227" height_o="2026" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed5930cd0a55481c30765453e037eaf185540ca89df901357346f2f932cc6d48/North-Kent-copy.jpg" data-mid="87389178" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Everything is perfect - even the Road is passable - and as hard as rock.&rdquo; &ldquo;Johnson&rdquo; to Mrs Miller Valentine&rsquo;s postcard c. 1955" data-caption="“Everything is perfect - even the Road is passable - and as hard as rock.” “Johnson” to Mrs Miller Valentine’s postcard c. 1955"/>
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1024<img width="3191" height="2049" width_o="3191" height_o="2049" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/79d8bb66e578d39126eec6a14eacf9e46b28658de969b1e01da504711026da73/Sheppey--copy.jpg" data-mid="87389055" border="0" alt="&ldquo;I&rsquo;m enjoying myself trying to put the garden to rights as well as mixing cement for Harry. It&rsquo;s a lark.&rdquo; Hankie to Milly, Valentine&rsquo;s postcard, c. 1965" data-caption="“I’m enjoying myself trying to put the garden to rights as well as mixing cement for Harry. It’s a lark.” Hankie to Milly, Valentine’s postcard, c. 1965"/>
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1040<h7>The Isle of Sheppey is a small,
1041low-lying and watery place of some thirty-six
1042square miles in extent. <br><br>It lies on the eastern shore of
1043the&nbsp; Medway, where this no longer naval river flows into the&nbsp; outer
1044reaches of the Thames Estuary. <br><br>On its western side, it emerges from
1045the water, in a marshy and noncommittal kind of way, not far
1046from a bone-strewn mudbank called “Dead Man’s Island”. <br><br>To
1047the south, once you get past the landfill site at Ladies Hole
1048Point, the island is dominated by marshes and separated from the
1049mainland by a tidal strait known as the Swale. <br><br>The
1050northern shore is formed by a ridge of London Clay, which&nbsp; emerges near Sheerness-on-Sea and rises as it proceeds towards the eastern shore of the island, reach§ing its highest point
1051of some seventy-six metres above sea level at Minster, a village
1052at the early Christian site where St Sexburga,&nbsp; widow of the Anglo-Saxon&nbsp; King Eorcenberht of Kent, established a convent in 664 AD.<br>
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1055<br>Such basic facts
1056must be allowed, and yet the “Isle
1057of Sheep”, as Sheppey’s originally Saxon name “Sceapig”
1058describes it, remains variously suggestive in
1059its separation from the mainland.<br><br>Not just an island, it is also a strange oscillation, a place where paradise keeps collapsing into the bleakest kind of slum.  &nbsp;<br></h7>
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1068<div style="text-align: center"><img width="3185" height="2113" width_o="3185" height_o="2113" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1dabe478bc3b4d22f747b4ddeeb32282c143abf83254b36ba1d4446edcba317/The-Ship-on-Shore-copy.jpg" data-mid="87288099" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="The Ship on Shore, Sheerness  &ldquo;Having bad weather here,&rdquo; postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913." data-caption="The Ship on Shore, Sheerness  “Having bad weather here,” postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913."/></div>
1069	
1070	<h7>The Ship on Shore, Sheerness<br>
1071 “Having bad weather here,” postcard sent by J. Short to Mrs. Schofield in Portsmouth, 5 September 1913. This pub grotto, was assembled from a salvaged ship, said&nbsp; to have run aground loaded with barrels that turned out, disappointingly for some,&nbsp; to be filled with Portland cement.</h7><br>
1072<br>
1073<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cc817b176e5448578f516402743cacdae9d9525ce5b03cd47bacae0575a5508/0E0243B5-C566-45E4-88A4-AA1514A86B5C_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="91210601" border="0" alt="The Bethel Chaoel, Blue Town, now 0art of Andre Whelan's &quot;
1073gnome factory&quot; (aka&quot; Whelan's Garden Ornaments)" data-caption="The Bethel Chaoel, Blue Town, now 0art of Andre Whelan's &quot;gnome factory&quot; (aka&quot; Whelan's Garden Ornaments)"/><br>
1074<div style="text-align: center"><img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be332483eeada42c1056f12e5b847dbae47821d6860d28c0d29f640901e14cae/IMG_1112.jpeg" data-mid="88179446" border="0" data-scale="100"/><br><img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/56bc4be819b7ceb58991ab99470d7a2266aa5373476c85fad561f5e20a76bc5f/IMG_1113.jpeg" data-mid="88179477" border="0" data-scale="100"/></div><h7>Shipwright preacher William Shrubsole’s Bethel Chapel, Blue Town, Sheerness, now part of Whelan’s Garden Ornaments (aka “the gnome factory”)</h7>
1075<br><br>
1076<br>
1077<div style="text-align: center"><img width="1738" height="1288" width_o="1738" height_o="1288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3bec965ae98c4a32b2253b77f9a832a664cde0d713a4b5f6e6a2fb01d23a2c99/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.10.33.png" data-mid="89524498" border="0" data-scale="100"/></div> <h7>Definitely Not Berlin.<br>
1078 “Rusticated” sea wall<b>, </b>designed by Garnham Wright Associates&nbsp; and built along Marine Parade in 1983-4.&nbsp;</h7><br>
1079<br>
1080<br>
1081<div style="text-align: center"><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A21%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1082<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f27cb4be599ae2e4ebc1b310063de5cd0d1de060d865435b1dc3e9c380df3036/A5C28ECF-4974-4CD1-B6CF-6C3EA9B56E34_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88696027" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="HMGov, Sheppey Prison Cluster, Eastchurch" data-caption="HMGov, Sheppey Prison Cluster, Eastchurch"/>
1083</div><br></div>
1084</div>
1085	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="2" class=""><br>
1086</div>
1087</div><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1088	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0">
1089<br>
1090<div style="text-align: right"></div></div>
1091	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class="">
1092<br>
1093<h5>“Call it England or call it Sheppey, the island looks tiny on conventional maps: little more than a mudbank about eight miles across at its broadest point, and eleven in length. Those, however, are not the only dimensions that matter. While writing this book, I have learned to sympathise with the man from Gillingham, eight or so miles upstream along the Medway, who decided — a full six years before the Brexit referendum of 2016 — to buy himself a small motorboat via the internet and put to sea with the aim of navigating his way around Great Britain...<br>
1094
1095<br>After studying a road atlas, he concluded that he only had to keep the land on his right-hand side in order to end the first stretch of his journey at Southampton. Having proceeded on this assumption for a day and a half, he ran out of fuel and found nhimself stuck in the mud near some tidal marshes. The lifeboat that came to rescue this slow voyager from his predicament guided him to the quayside at Queenborough where an officer of the coastguard service briskly informed him that he had all the time been circling the Isle of Sheppey: ‘He had no idea of the magnitude of the journey he was undertaking”’<br>
1096<br>Since this unidentified Englishman — he was, as I recall, rudely dismissed as a “dopey sailor” by the island’s newspaper — insisted on resuming his journey once refuelled, we may assume that he too had by then seen enough to know not just that small can be large, but also that life isn’t necessarily at its richest when it is predictable or easy.” (<i>Sea View</i>, pp, 8-9)</h5><br><br>
1097<div style="text-align: center;"><br><br>
1098<br><br><br>
1099<br>
1100<h6>Sheppey,&nbsp; more or less West to East</h6></div><br>
1101</div>
1102	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1103</div>
1104<div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0">
1105	<div grid-col="x12" grid-pad="0" class=""><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A22%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1106<img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea6b812deb04bcb94560deb8e033686c535ac7a3e861f1650f961ce50995adf2/IMG_0938.jpeg" data-mid="88181787" border="0" alt="Looking West across Dead Man's Island and the Medway from Rushenden Hill   " data-caption="Looking West across Dead Man's Island and the Medway from Rushenden Hill   "/>
1107<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41ee1e7ccc444f44f6f203dc9fb364e37336c5cb65b5dd9a3d1c0e5ef9044853/9B860873-C2B8-4D1D-83EF-BD80C12851AD_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87645684" border="0" alt="Towards Ladies Hole Point" data-caption="Towards Ladies Hole Point"/>
1108<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4133c52df9329154f85ae68c94925912da0251f8a7d315da9be96ae4340eb24a/IMG_0872-2.jpeg" data-mid="88099653" border="0" alt="Queenborough, from the (non-existent) path to  Ladies Hole Point" data-caption="Queenborough, from the (non-existent) path to  Ladies Hole Point"/>
1109<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ae91af30dc318dde4196bbb44d43b6ff6c3d9b2782442266ff0e87c84627541/2EB0287C-B662-4BDE-9D21-E6DD14BB640A_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87645694" border="0" alt="South of Queenborough" data-caption="South of Queenborough"/>
1110<img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f3cfb3c6b2274747916186c013d8d99d67b66702f1d944b82c15cc58014e283/HFY6UPPP20VIPCNDBAAG.jpg" data-mid="87934003" border="0" alt="The Sheppey Crossing, 2016" data-caption="The Sheppey Crossing, 2016"/>
1111<img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/427f9089cf8d19661b3478d7f7bf78274a9849c18153f97e6a05ee453dd9e237/IMG_1410.jpeg" data-mid="87824532" border="0" alt="King&rsquo;s Hill Farm, Elmley Marshes" data-caption="King’s Hill Farm, Elmley Marshes"/>
1112<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72b382f7bc291532e1b56a1491f7029896b794e3ca4c2feb175bff959f74
111263d7/IMG_1199.jpeg" data-mid="87647622" border="0" alt="Windblown debris, on fence surrounding the former Admiralty dockyard, Sheerness (summer)" data-caption="Windblown debris, on fence surrounding the former Admiralty dockyard, Sheerness (summer)"/>
1113<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cacfc0d8dab5e931804d7ae25d7ca7ae7eab6b3d26cf855ccf52d9a71204d7cf/IMG_1200.jpeg" data-mid="88098550" border="0" alt="Northeast corner of Sir John Rennie's Georgian dockyard wall, Sheerness" data-caption="Northeast corner of Sir John Rennie's Georgian dockyard wall, Sheerness"/>
1114<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e07075a17bb85c6d495a9fb158b2d38840d3e97bda283ad1c22443280095037/IMG_1205.jpeg" data-mid="88098449" border="0" alt="Martello towers, Sheerness" data-caption="Martello towers, Sheerness"/>
1115<img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31e0f4d9bf323198fa2a287fc1966d446a344b47abaed5e00d911a3366ce4ddc/IMG_1291.JPG" data-mid="89119149" border="0" alt="Weathered lion, inside dockyard" data-caption="Weathered lion, inside dockyard"/>
1116<img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c88e76ebbdbc978e634af7ff72cecc4fc8aee9a68d5abbf7fb32d54e5d0d573/IMG_1567.jpeg" data-mid="87826606" border="0" />
1117<img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/949b358379a312a0406924ddbf235028497450f7af825517bf2e299c3b7ba98d/IMG_1566.jpeg" data-mid="87826605" border="0" alt="19th century model of Admiralty Dockyard, Sheerness (in storage near Portsmouth)" data-caption="19th century model of Admiralty Dockyard, Sheerness (in storage near Portsmouth)"/>
1118<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9a30d7ad2f505734aea7c16ef1cbc74071cf902ffe5c05000fa238ff58ac820/1E7D6B01-2BAE-43E9-A5AE-38DA2791B8D3_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87645132" border="0" alt="Avenue leading from dockyard to Dock Church" data-caption="Avenue leading from dockyard to Dock Church"/>
1119<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb48fba05404725a0709c7a373b55d07b45ceef98e9bb741a1faad8d04f13565/0DE52454-AB8F-4E19-9EDC-CEEB7FB56F84_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89299609" border="0" alt="Admiralty dockyard, now Peel Ports." data-caption="Admiralty dockyard, now Peel Ports."/>
1120<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf6688c2077cabe226727164b6a2d6c054591307f14ed468ba6e69fd7d1540ec/654FCBB4-E349-4170-9DF8-2576FA5482D3_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87827088" border="0" alt="Same debris, same fence - in winter, three years later " data-caption="Same debris, same fence - in winter, three years later "/>
1121<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b1946f1f94ba07693305ff4abc74f0d696eda6f4e87c207a72a3087e5ba0ac1/Drain--Blue-Town.jpeg" data-mid="88104652" border="0" alt="Drain, Blue Town, Sheerness. Drains were life-savers in mid-19th century Sheerness. Sea View, 229-232 &amp; 250-258." data-caption="Drain, Blue Town, Sheerness. Drains were life-savers in mid-19th century Sheerness. Sea View, 229-232 &amp; 250-258."/>
1122<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3afb20106b6ca5292a97dae012ed31f220c998f66a447104749d8b6ff1133a3/IMG_1121.jpeg" data-mid="87826145" border="0" alt="Footballers etc., Whelan's Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness" data-caption="Footballers etc., Whelan's Garden Ornaments, Blue Town, Sheerness"/>
1123<img width="1742" height="934" width_o="1742" height_o="934" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0af443b7e5b4e059110ac3d5a78f81f5a76451514413d736a45a0cc40010d610/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.05.18.png" data-mid="89523353" border="0" alt="Diamond Jubilee decorations, the Albion, Blue Town High Street, 2012" data-caption="Diamond Jubilee decorations, the Albion, Blue Town High Street, 2012"/>
1124<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cddbcfffd25737a78ca56ecf0d5eff49ca903c69f1761dcb004fbca0be98b427/E62C7952-D4AB-41A7-AC87-B83775F95233_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87826979" border="0" alt="The Crescent, Sheerness" data-caption="The Crescent, Sheerness"/>
1125<img width="1072" height="861" width_o="1072" height_o="861" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fff7057ea9396122183687860f3c8211a8660c10633598aceff2f01254fc522/thumbnail_IMG_2581.jpg" data-mid="89107531" border="0" alt="Conservative Club, Broadway, Sheerness" data-caption="Conservative Club, Broadway, Sheerness"/>
1126<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a5583a881c8bdda682f326b535548ae4e9f9f55d34dd7ce64c4fa8d30d33715/DB8AF0BE-1D3F-42F9-9606-84B10D62C8A8_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88696239" border="0" alt="Victoria Working Men&rsquo;s Club, Broadway, Sheerness, 1882" data-caption="Victoria Working Men’s Club, Broadway, Sheerness, 1882"/>
1127<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c38d18ba5549d454a48f0eaf739536fbe6442325070290652dffb77f5bfa6497/26F44F2E-283C-49F1-846E-71CF19964977_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87644442" border="0" alt="Across the estuary" data-caption="Across the estuary"/>
1128<img width="724" height="1086" width_o="724" height_o="1086" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/572db02c88bc58291793a474caa21458c5cf3ac7331f956ddfdfa71d968ddb95/ADD8151C-DC6A-455B-9F4C-7251E5BC1FDB_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87644405" border="0" alt="Seafront residues, Marine Town, Sheerness" data-caption="Seafront residues, Marine Town, Sheerness"/>
1129<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f84d0caaa33086ffd85d1360d30db6f98f5bb9f95d5f8ad1827f004ab7e062f/DSCN1113-2.jpeg" data-mid="87645752" border="0" alt="Neptune Terrace, Marine Town, Sheerness" data-caption="Neptune Terrace, Marine Town, Sheerness"/>
1130<img width="1903" height="2012" width_o="1903" height_o="2012" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b77c7b7fb00ab76f7091713353014107ccc778c18d9e2ca73812692d404db640/IMG_1150-2.jpeg" data-mid="87644998" border="0" alt="Neptune Terrace, detail" data-caption="Neptune Terrace, detail"/>
1131<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59cf807b0e1ec0150a23c998b99c6
1131700128f36e138621d12dcbe0edcbc9d571b/F7743C2E-84F1-4F45-BBB7-B09AE9AF1BEF_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87827026" border="0" alt="Johnson's chosen street" data-caption="Johnson's chosen street"/>
1132<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/120bd4510ecb9b6ada190024802484245d1d3bd7e486d7b04a2d0d4889a5a8d2/F72A9032-1FC1-4ADD-8700-3123838A2D49_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87645067" border="0" alt="Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (before renovation)" data-caption="Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (before renovation)"/>
1133<img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bd44921bdfaa721cee34b8e410ac36031386dcab4bb8f4af0fcad274fe94d7bf/IMG_1396.jpeg" data-mid="88183972" border="0" alt="Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (after renovation)" data-caption="Neptune Cafe, High Street, Sheerness (after renovation)"/>
1134<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/945be420853122b2a2ed10248975681ee757839d5c8b551d0e90f59042fc489f/1BCABBC7-6CD9-4835-8721-8CF6215E5C47_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87933696" border="0" alt="Sheerness Ape, Marine Town" data-caption="Sheerness Ape, Marine Town"/>
1135<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42038f65e0b374dd4f03d83b52924cbebc83526b7b186c1a80c52f14eac43406/836B997C-6403-46CA-85FB-861275FFB66C_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89492925" border="0" alt="Figurehead (replica) of HMS Forte, sea defence wall, Marine Parade, Sheerness." data-caption="Figurehead (replica) of HMS Forte, sea defence wall, Marine Parade, Sheerness."/>
1136<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e74b0f655a1261c94445f0973b2405cdce272ac06b3bda2acf867d618f2e2b2/5E1A039C-8ADB-48EA-8991-B799E356E3D2_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87933628" border="0" alt="Barton&rsquo;s Point Coastal Park" data-caption="Barton’s Point Coastal Park"/>
1137<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf6b9d73866d125eccda9769adfd72ab15c5145dfb3aea0493bbcfdc5514f734/DAD94F08-8F17-493A-A76F-7FD2E639B9BA_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89774059" border="0" alt="Looking East towards Whitstable and Herne Bay from Warden Point" data-caption="Looking East towards Whitstable and Herne Bay from Warden Point"/>
1138<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e0ebf3f137ffede3627ef8d58871163b1d1ae17f9c3c6d08ac203c5a0ed0efa/IMG_1160.jpeg" data-mid="94302542" border="0" alt="Warden Manor, home to TocH and later to the Transalpine Redemptorists, who had their Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary here (1988-1994)" data-caption="Warden Manor, home to TocH and later to the Transalpine Redemptorists, who had their Monastery of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary here (1988-1994)"/>
1139<img width="3207" height="2881" width_o="3207" height_o="2881" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db7db1fcdd7ef0d72d68393bc3727e3ac88eced0533624817de903b012fa9cf1/DSCN1142.jpeg" data-mid="87645863" border="0" alt="Notices from a freeborn Englishman, Warden" data-caption="Notices from a freeborn Englishman, Warden"/>
1140<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0291a4f51104dd5ec43bbaec5064d85ad3e33c84a7860f620b6621f086a32089/CAD43E44-448A-4EF7-9E12-6732152BEC3B_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88099248" border="0" alt="&ldquo;Managed retreat&rdquo; at Warden Springs Caravan Park" data-caption="“Managed retreat” at Warden Springs Caravan Park"/>
1141<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/062385e67b9dfcbe05c177268ae93ae70fbdd9af29f881046cfc7edfc7e79f6f/IMG_2598-2.jpeg" data-mid="88099234" border="0" alt="End of the road once known as &quot;Mud Row&quot; at Warden Point" data-caption="End of the road once known as &quot;Mud Row&quot; at Warden Point"/>
1142<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b68f6b0e222c363545cb4f3dca9b8dbdb4b25ea87366a8b9839364ab9993d68/IMG_2599-2.jpeg" data-mid="88099235" border="0" alt="&quot;Encroachments of the sea&quot;: Warden Point" data-caption="&quot;Encroachments of the sea&quot;: Warden Point"/>
1143<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9861f9dfe3e8c27893f30bbe25dadc23f18790ff3288ce7e7ea2b0915c480a7b/IMG_2600.jpeg" data-mid="88099240" border="0" alt="End of the road at Warden Point" data-caption="End of the road at Warden Point"/>
1144<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82492ea998cfe3bb86b1bf04bc566240b83e12cd30cb56d06f80bf1203769228/E38E1B13-1A1E-444A-85F7-33CBDAE6F2D9_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88695301" border="0" alt="Warden, at Sheppey's East End" data-caption="Warden, at Sheppey's East End"/>
1145<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc4e0a526312f8aa9d6273c6fc79ab86abba476593049736c3e6c90b6fb5c348/0FB7B2DB-6C53-4E55-ABEE-5B8001DC2F70_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88695367" border="0" alt="Leysdown. At the beginning of the 20th century, a plotland developer urged customers to imagine a fine new promenade here" data-caption="Le
1145ysdown. At the beginning of the 20th century, a plotland developer urged customers to imagine a fine new promenade here"/>
1146<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69c6049a115e162ee77bce5ff4598867e0b58df2319129cdde30c97388bf07c3/CBF9BC59-377A-4571-A87D-DF9C5AD31154_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87647696" border="0" alt="&quot;Bungalettes&quot; at Shellbeach" data-caption="&quot;Bungalettes&quot; at Shellbeach"/>
1147<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4838eea58e6f5a9c8318ac93ffb0248888e0fad2303de6dd6f9ec54f59e618c/1CE0DE66-B823-4AC0-B388-E9CCCED8E8ED_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87647773" border="0" alt="Debris, Shellbeach" data-caption="Debris, Shellbeach"/>
1148<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3f08a8c23a647c2b4245c7c25fd93487899da7f220c55cd1603226492553892/51454A4A-7C85-4FED-B36C-9154C8B62BEB_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87647784" border="0" alt="Brent Geese over Shellness" data-caption="Brent Geese over Shellness"/>
1149<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/363aee0f885ff47345b5658ff65e333836e4ec7d794fcf927dbb8716bab8c0a1/63BE2001-4458-4A1A-BFF8-A7FF8EDB7892_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88695381" border="0" alt="Shellness, former control tower" data-caption="Shellness, former control tower"/>
1150<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d3a6e07b4c77ca2abbdf650fa8f674516699ebc1f3ce6ce43a816c4e30b1b5d/BC6D128F-5F7D-40B1-B237-E4AF60468B0A_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87826193" border="0" />
1151<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39dd5cc6710bfb2052a1ee8c0f36d0d334c9ca7238c364bb924f3bbb73edb79e/09F8D06A-7D04-424F-8971-BDA288C7A898_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="87647789" border="0" alt="Shellness" data-caption="Shellness"/>
1152<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20933ed15cab9694b295ab7b515d7b15c5a0a8d8f47b9332e0389b50aeef63d9/IMG_0943.jpeg" data-mid="88104658" border="0" alt="Shellness, looking north from Shellness Point" data-caption="Shellness, looking north from Shellness Point"/>
1153</div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>“His address was Sheppey”</h6><br><img width="372" height="419" width_o="372" height_o="419" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3677da63a117eb4ca116f3ff139ae29c64bc477c5b1a07aa9e1fb7ca5d21d232/IMG_1892.jpg" data-mid="95687170" border="0" /><br>
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1159	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><i>Anopheles maculipennis</i> mosquito, photographed on a bedroom wall in Kent, 1918.&nbsp; this marsh-dwelling mosquito was a carrier of indigenous malaria, known as “marsh fever” and “ague” before it was scientifically identified by Sir Ronald Ross in India ain 1897.&nbsp; &nbsp;The infestations on Sheppey were particularly bad.&nbsp; At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Sheerness was described as “the most fever-ridden place in the whole of England.” In the mid-nineteenth century, there was much concern about the impact of this pestilence on the fighting strength of the navy&nbsp; at Sheerness (hence the towen’s heroic preoccupation with drainage at this time). The problem had long kept wealthy landowners and farmers from living on the island (many of the marshlands were run by “lookers” who had no choice but to lieve below the “contour of death”).&nbsp; I The affliction also recurred in the. twentieth century - not least after the First EWorld War, when the island’s mosquitoes were reinfected by soldiers returning from overseas (<i>Sea View,</i> 205-7)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
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1164<div style="text-align: right"></div><br><br><br><br><br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>“Island” — the Requiem<br></h6></div>
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1178	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0">In 1973/4, a thoughtful man named Dave used to come to 5 St Radigund Street, Canterbury, where I was then living as a student. He was a friend of another resident, the singer Barbara Gaskin, and we sometimes referred to him as “Ziggy” in honour of the stardust trailing behind him. Dave, was Dave Sinclair, former keyboardist with Matching Mole and Caravan, whose album&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br>
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1185<h5><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP4oxcQJzyc">“In the Land of Grey and Pink”</a> (1971) had taken its title from sunsets over the Isle of Sheppey. Band members had watched these fractal explosions of colour from the marshland village of Graveney, where they’d found a hall in 
1185which to rehearse.&nbsp;</h5></div>
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1189	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h5>Dave spent many years, including those in which the memory of “prog rock” was blasted into the past by the later punk sensibility, running a piano restoration business in Herne Bay. He moved to Japan in 2005 where he now lives on Yuge island, Kamijima.&nbsp; Perhaps some fleeting memory of that view over Sheppey informs his more recent song &nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1ObdAsa7w&amp;list=RD5r1ObdAsa7w&amp;index=22">“Island” (2011)</a>, a simple elegy to the hopes of a lost era, here sung by Barbara Gaskin.&nbsp; Johnson, of course, knew nothing of this. Yet he was curious and, when living in America in the Sixties, he once asked the young Richard Hamburger to copy him a cassette of his favourite music.<br>
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1202	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>Island Birds</h6></div></div>
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1210<h5>Brent geese at Shellbeach</h5></div><br>
1211<h5>A female flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum) tried its luck on the&nbsp; Sheppey marshes in the summer of 1873. The erratic visitor was shot by a labourer named Heathfield, who tracked it down to Sharfleet Creek on the Swale. Sheppey’s firebird was claimed as a first for the country. As such, it was eviscerated and stuffed by a Mr. George Young of Sittingbourne on the mainland, and sold to a man named Dene from further inland at Tonbridge. The new owner was to receive a disappointing lesson from the superintendent of London Zoo, who revealed that the unfortunate creature was actually an escapee from his collection at Regent’s Park.</h5><br>
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1213<div style="text-align: center"><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A23%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1214<img width="1514" height="2590" width_o="1514" height_o="2590" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c68f0145e2e973398df754af219cdcdb88baec69d163ea46c07ffad99dc2924b/p.-118.jpg" data-mid="88794051" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="European Flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum)" data-caption="European Flamingo (Phoenicopterus antiquorum)"/>
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1222<h5>“He
1223walked to the door and threw it open. The sea, the sea. Grey and brown. It
1224would rain soon. It was bleak out, bleaker, if possible, than it had ever
1225seemed before. What a view. Luke grimaced. What a bloody landscape!”<br>— Nicola Barker, <i>Wide
1226Open</i> (1998) </h5><br><br><br><br>
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1235	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><h6>Sheppey: “Rural slum” <br>and/or “Moral Utopia”?</h6></div></div>
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1241<h5>Johnson’s first German visitors were by no means impressed by the remote, industrial, working class island on which he had chosen to live. &nbsp;<br><br>“As [Siegfried] Kunert recorded in his <i>An English Daybook</i> the seats inside British Rail’s shabby conveyance were a poor advertisement for the attractions of “Sheerness-on-Sea.” Their headrests were ‘enormously patinated’&nbsp; — so much so that one was stuck with white tufts of hair as if an old man had struggled to ‘tear himself from his seat on arrival.’”<i>
1241(Sea View,</i> p. 195)<br><br>“Every time I arrived and left, my feeling was the same: how can one live here, and how can one write here, in this run-down town, with little or no possibility of preserving what makes the outer life worth living?”<br>
1242</h5><h5>— Siegfried Unseld, Johnson’s editor and publisher at Suhrkamp, Frankfurt (<i>Sea View,</i> p. 195)</h5><br>
1243<h5><div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: left">Helga Michie, the twin sister of the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger who had arrived in London on a Kindertransport in 1939, understood the situation differently:&nbsp;</div></div><br>“He likes it there. It reminds him of home... It’s the landscape — sea, sand, marsh.”<br></h5><div style="text-align: right"><div style="text-align: left"><h5>(<i>Sea View,</i> p. 197)</h5></div></div><h5><br>For centuries, Sheerness had survived and sometimes prospered as a military town. It was created to meet the requirements both of the Admiralty dockyard, first laid out by Samuel Pepys and others&nbsp; in 1665, and of the associated army garrison installed next to it on the marshy point (the “Ness”) overlooking the mouth of the Medway and the&nbsp; submerged sandbank that would become the naval anchorage known as the Nore. The people of the town that grew up around the dockyard had long feared their reliance on the Admiralty, and steps were also taken to establish the place as “Sheerness-on-Sea”,&nbsp; a resort for visiting Londoners. As such, it would always struggle to match rivals like Margate, where the golden sands bore no disillusioning resemblance to shingle and&nbsp; excursionists disembarking from the steamer that had brought them from London&nbsp; didn’t have to make their way through the disorderly military slum named Blue Town (”Whitechapel-on-Sea”) in order to get from the pier to the beach.<br><br>Johnson knew about the poverty and deprivation on Sheppey, but he didn’t at all mind the absence of the shinier trappings of western life - the rampant consumerism, the displays of opulence, the bourgeois habits of thought that had never made their way over the Kingsferry Bridge from the so-called “Garden of England”. A longastanding scourge of the hypocrisy of the liberal middle classes, he aligned himself with the island’s unemployed and came to appreciate the&nbsp; not always law-abiding solidarity of the people as they got by despite the unhelpful attentions (or neglect) of the state.&nbsp; He told one East German friend that he had discovered a “moral utopia” in this English backwater, where many of his friends saw only misery, abandonment and bleak deprivation.</h5>
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1250<img width="1312" height="1048" width_o="1312" height_o="1048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4f353a1f62f8ff3125e4a3a2fbdf1527d2f54964db63f1e2b530b9d3cfb9a9b/dig18106-z2rimuxdgwtviuedirbn9n30.jpg" data-mid="87938724" border="0" alt="Abraham Ortelius, map of Thomas More&rsquo;s Utopia, c. 1595" data-caption="Abraham Ortelius, map of Thomas More’s Utopia, c. 1595"/>
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1254<img width="600" height="479" width_o="600" height_o="479" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06be0fdd1860e543e773faf33270a218349b4c63f2ee9a65dc2c0cdf770c3812/sheppey_resize.jpg" data-mid="91287588" border="0" alt="The Isle of Sheppey, from Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1797" data-caption="The Isle of Sheppey, from Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 1797"/>
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1260<h6>The Past</h6></div>
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1567in consequence, liberally entertained by them. On Wednesday, he discovered
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1569was made for him among the soldiers, amounting to 7s. 6d.&nbsp; Afterwards, he found a cousin, a poor man, in
1570Blue Town, with whom he resided a day. On the same night, about ten o’clock, he
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1574their own bed. On Saturday, he found a cousin Adams, with whom he partook a
1575greedy meal of nearly two pounds of meat, and a pot of porter, &amp;c. Here he
1576carried his deceptions as far as to kiss Mrs. Adams, who shed copious tears
1577upon the occasion of the discovery of a relative. The same day, he found cousin
1578Curry, with whom he partook of ham &amp;c., for tea, and obtained 2s 3d from
1579Mrs C., to pay the pier dues for his luggage; having nothing, as he said, but
1580doubloons by him, which he could not get changed. The same night, he gave a
1581second visit to Queenborough, and found out cousin Morris; but obtained nothing
1582from him. He appeared, wherever he went, to be quite at home, by looking into
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1584imposter resided in Sheppey altogether a week; after which, he appears to have
1585found out the mother of a New South Wales convict, near Sittingbourne, from
1586whom he pretended to have brought a letter. He next introduced himself to the
1587clerk of a brewery at Chatham, from whom he obtained 7 s. This is the last
1588place we heard of him. He is about 5ft. 6in. in height—60 years of age. He had
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1645<h7>Such was the turn-out at the Royal Oak that the Sheppey rally had to be held “in the avenue adjacent to the little picturesque public-house”. Having climbed onto a table, Howard apologised for the fact that he would also have to chair the meeting himself. &nbsp;He asked the assembled labourers to listen patiently to speakers, whether they were for or against the proposition. “The subject”, which was of national importance and definitely “not confined to a hole-and-corner village,” should be considered “beyond hooting down.”&nbsp; <br><br>Howard may still have been wearing the “agricultural” boots and leggings for which he had been mocked in the <i>Maidstone Journal’s</i>
1645 sneering report of the union’s recent fundraising meeting in Gravesend. &nbsp;Yet he knew how to present a reasoned case even while ridiculing the objections farming interests had tried to plant in their workers’ minds. It was, Howard stated, the general saying in a village that when men joined the union they did so in order to strike. “There was not a greater fallacy than this,” because a union “was merely a combination of men to benefit themselves, so that there could not be very much wrong with it.” Unions used the strike only as last resort, and this one hoped to find other ways of saving its members from the answer that customarily awaited labourers who dared express any grievances. &nbsp;<br><br>“If you don’t like it, go!” &nbsp;That was the reply the demanding, or just pleading, labourer could expect from his employer. &nbsp;And those who were forced to “go” had no chance of getting employment from another farmer in the parish. &nbsp;So the aggrieved worker had to leave the area, knowing there would be plenty of other men to take up the work at starvation wages. &nbsp;Once the new organisation became “general”, Howard promised, it would have the leverage to put an end to this misery. &nbsp;The Kent Agricultural Labourers’ Union was, so Howard encouraged the more timorous onlookers to understand, one of the last unions to form: even the Church of England’s curates had recently created such an association to save themselves from being “ground down to the lowest by the big wigs of that Church”. <br><br>After Howard’s rousing speech, the meeting adjourned to the pub, where a Sheppey branch of the Kent Agricultural Labourers’ Union was duly formed with a membership of 70 men. Two years later, its members were coming to terms with the island farmers’ reaction to their unwelcome exercise in collective self-defence. &nbsp;In April 1875 one who knew better than to reveal his identity except as “a farm labourer”, wrote to the <i>Sheerness Times</i> to let readers know “how those who are uniting to attain a reasonable day’s pay are treated by the “Amalgamated Club” of the farmers of this island. <br>
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1647&nbsp;On Sheppey as elsewhere in the county, the labourers&nbsp; had been “locked out” because they were demanding a working day of 10 hours. A young man who had been elected branch secretary of the Kent Agricultural Labourer’s Union, was immediately discharged from a farm near “Court Tree” and also dismissed by the church wardens from his long-established additional employment as “organ blower” at the church in the agricultural village of Eastchurch. &nbsp; Two years earlier, the &nbsp;
1647union’s founder and Honorary Secretary Alfred &nbsp;Simmons had told a meeting in Lamberhurst that the “unmanly, unkind, unchristianlike” behaviour of the farmers was “unworthy of Englishmen.” (<i>Kentish Gazette</i>, 17 June 1873, p. 3) &nbsp; This unnamed Sheppey labourer now repeated that charge, urging “those who deprecate the Unenglish proceedings of the farmers of Sheppey,” to contribute their “mite” towards the welfare of those injured by the “lock out”. He also noted that the branch lodge continued to hold its meetings at the Royal Oak in East End Lane.&nbsp; <br><br>As the red bucket in the unknown watercolourist’s picture may suggest, The Royal Oak was among the remote buildings on Sheppey’s east coast that proved remarkably prone to fire. It was, however,&nbsp; a different threat that eventually put an end to the Royal Oak. &nbsp;On this coast, the idea of “going under” is all too literal – fields, houses, churches, coastguard stations, pillboxes have been doing it for centuries. &nbsp;The cliffs are of soft London clay, and it has been estimated that&nbsp; miles of land may have dissolved into the rising sea since Roman times. &nbsp; In “volcano land”, as this unstable coast was dubbed by the <i>Illustrated London News </i>after a fall in January 1909,&nbsp; the end comes not as a crashing fall of rocks, but as a slumping movement of mud and clay in which undermined areas “glide” down, often strangely intact, towards the water. &nbsp;<br>
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1649A typical Sheppey landslip had occurred in 1809, when a great clod of land measuring 500ft by 150 ft “slid gradually down to the valley called Busbyhole”. &nbsp;It took with it parts of a dwellinghouse, a cow-house and several outbuildings’ but the descent was so gradual and gentle, that the corn planted on the land could still be “harvested in a good condition the following autumn”. &nbsp;<br><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A29%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22slide%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1650<img width="1000" height="762" width_o="1000" height_o="762" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24d0d56bdb96dd7185d6fc27d7accfe46a4fb64e3a41962776f0d341bd7e39ae/s-l1600-3.jpg" data-mid="93544170" border="0" alt="Illustrated London News, 1870" data-caption="Illustrated London News, 1870"/>
1651</div><br>Another of these falls occurred in June 1870. &nbsp;As the <i>Sheerness Times</i> reported on the 25th, this one had been seen by two officers who, having just walked over the fallen acre, announced the descent to have been “a grand sight”. &nbsp;The&nbsp; pleasure gardens sold as part of the Royal Oak Inn had recently been diminished too – “large slips of land have also taken place at the Royal Oak, East-End-Lane, during the past few years, reducing the lawn, which was of considerable size, to the insignificant area it now occupies.” <br>
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1653<div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A30%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1654<img width="3229" height="1930" width_o="3229" height_o="1930" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e91b788c038ec37b9877de80718a445069cea196ebeedbdfb7f3680f108a5db0/Scan-29-copy.jpg" data-mid="93447159" border="0" alt="View from &quot;Royal Oak Point&quot;, painted for &quot;The Development Company&quot;, set up to sell plotland sites for shacks and bungalows above the unstable cliffs at Minster by the developer F. R. Ramuz and Son. Circa 1910" data-caption="View from &quot;Royal Oak Point&quot;, painted for &quot;The Development Company&quot;, set up to sell plotland sites for shacks and bungalows above the unstable cliffs at Minster by the developer F. R. Ramuz and Son. Circa 1910"/>
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1656Although the surrounding land and garden kept collapsing around it, the Royal Oak survived until the 1950s, when it was finally cleared before it joined its ancient or
1656chard and bowling green in “going under”. As for the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union, by the 1880s, the much maligned Albert Simmons had connected its cause with franchise reform, standing as a parliamentary candidate for William Gladstone’s Liberal Party and calling the labourers of Kent to join the Liberals against the “scornful curl of the lip” with which Tories had always met their demands&nbsp; for improvement (<i>Thanet Advertiser</i> 27 June 1885, p.4 ).<br>
1657<br>
1658Simmons may be less remembered than Joseph Arch of Warwickshire, but the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union was one of the most successful of the associations that formed during the Revolt of the Fields. This may be attributed to its use of festivals and journalism as well as its strike and sickness funds. &nbsp;Yet it was also distinguished by its commitment to assisted emigration, a cause that earlier defenders of the English rural community such as William Cobbett had opposed as a wholly unnecessary displacement spuriously justified by appeals to Malthus’s theory of the surplus population. For Simmons, on the contrary, emigration was another weapon in the battle against the Tory farmers.<br><br>Speaking to a crowd of about 1000 in Canterbury in July 1872, Simmons disputed the frequently trotted out allegation that the union had been got up by “paid agitators” determined to bring on a strike. &nbsp;Its policy, he explained, &nbsp;was actually moderate and gradual. &nbsp;The&nbsp; first step was to request an increase in wages, and then to seek independent arbitration if this was refused. &nbsp;The third measure, which was placed before the fourth and final option of calling a strike, was to enable “such men as desired” to migrate or emigrate “from Kent to better places” (<i>Maryport Observer,</i> 20 March 1874, p,. 2.) Various destinations were available, but the union appears to have favoured sending its emigrating families “down under” to South Australia and &nbsp;New Zealand. &nbsp; It helped 234 families embarked for South Australia near the end of 1873. 400 had gone by the end of the year, when a concerned farmer from Waltham ventured the hope that a good half of them would soon enough be begging to exchange “the aguish forest of New Zealand, the blinding sands of Australia, or the wild prairies of North America for the hop gardens of Kent.” &nbsp;(<i>Kentish Gazette</i>&nbsp; 16 December 1873). &nbsp;In 1879, Simmons countered another farmers’ lock-out by filling &nbsp;a steamship made available to him by the Agent-General of New Zealand, and himself joining the emigrating labourers on their voyage. Since many of the departing labourers had worked in Kent’s hop fields, he took a selection of hop plants so that they might renew their activities once landed. &nbsp;<br><br>As Simmons intended, this encouragement of emigration helped increase pressure on farmers, especially at busy times of year when their harvest depended on the easy availability of workers. &nbsp;It’s effectiveness may be measured by various furious reports in the county press. &nbsp;It would be said that Simmons and the other “mountebanks” at the head of the union were making a killing from the commission they secured for everyone they signed up for free passage to the far side of the Empire. &nbsp;The county’s Tory papers also opened their pages to stories about the bitter disappointment of emigrants who disembarked in places that were anything but the “land of milk and honey” they had been promised. &nbsp;Regrets were keenly anticipated among those Simmons had sent to New Zealand and South Australia, but the commentators had to make do with those of the agricultural labourers who had been “induced by philanthropists” to embark for Brazil in May 1872, and soon found themselves doing the work of slaves: “We live together like pigs… We would not have come here for all the world had we known” (<i>Kentish Gazette,</i> 24 December 1874). &nbsp; Nobody could justifiably stick the blame for that particular passage on Simmons, but the accusation was generalised nonetheless.<br><br>A rotation like this had long been underway in the agricultural economy of Sheppey, with farm labourers emigrating to America, often helped by children who had gone before them, and their departure being noted in newspapers in Ireland (the <i>Sligo Champion</i> published such a notice on 3 November 1851), whence “itinerant” labourers would make their way to the island to take up available work at harvest time. It was in a clash between Irish and English labourers at Eastchurch during the harvest of 1837 that the insulting word “pikey” is said to have entered the English language (<i>Sea View, </i>pp.107-8).<br><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A31%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1659<img width="3033" height="1833" width_o="3033" height_o="1833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7af08ab1c4cc2342cc556e43287283863a8f6c0ed365d4d528eaa965afab8ae5/Scan-21.jpeg" data-mid="93474764" border="0" alt="&quot;My bungalow is five minutes walk from this beautiful place&quot;. Postcard, sent 18 July 1931." data-caption="&quot;My bungalow is five minutes walk from this beautiful place&quot;. Postcard, sent 18 July 1931."/>
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1661<br>
1662Of the agricultural labourers who didn’t ship out for the “New World”, we might now think more generously about Benjamin Bunk, an elderly and besmocked labourer who turned up at one of the island’s first Suffragist meetings in August 1909. &nbsp;One of the holidaying speakers, the American Alys Pearsall Smith (aka Mrs. Bertrand Russell), records that Mr. Bunk proved an awkward presence before going off to get himself another glass of beer. Overall, though, she found herself facing a serious and attentive audience at that meeting in Eastchurch, singling out a roughly clad young labourer, who stood rapt and immovable throughout the astonishing event, and dropped several coins into the collection pail at the close&nbsp; (<i>Sea View,</i> pp. 176-7). &nbsp;</h7><br><br><div style="text-align: center;">
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1664<br><br><br><br><br>
1665<br>
1666<h6>A politics that once counted: two blasts from the rural class struggle in late Victorian Kent</h6><br></div><h7>1. “Great Franchise Demonstration at Canterbury,” <i>Thanet Advertiser,</i> 27 June 1885, p. 4.</h7><br>
1667<br><h7>Mr. Alfred Simmons (Liberal candidate for the St Augustine’s Division) was very warmly received. &nbsp;He said: – I rise at the &nbsp;request of the labourers of Kent and Sussex, and on their behalf to move the following motion:<br>
1668<br>
1669“This meeting of Kent and Sussex labourers and representatives of Liberal Associations of Kent and East Sussex, remembering the promise that the present Parliament should not be dissolved until the household suffrage had been granted to the counties, tenders its grateful thanks to Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party for the consistency with which they have fulfilled that promise to the people.”<br>
1670<br>
1671From the time of my boyhood I have been, as I hope and believe, a consistent follower of the man whom I believe to have been the best friend that the working classes of the country ever had (a voice: Gladstone), and I assure you it sends a thrill of grateful pleasure through me to be selected to move this resolution of thanks to our grand old leader, Mr. Gladstone ((Loud cheers.) The speaker then recounted the long and great struggle the labourers had had to obtain their rights, and pointed out to his hearers who it was that had always opposed them. &nbsp;His experience had been that when they asked a Conservative member of Parliament to supp
1671ort that measure they had been met with the scornful curl of the lip.&nbsp; “We have been mocked and laughed at, and I tell you, and I tell you truthfully, that you do not owe the smallest amount of thanks to the Tory party for your votes. (Cheers.) I have been asked by some labourers to describe if I could what was the difference between a Conservative and a Liberal, and to do so I will tell you this. &nbsp;The Conservatives always have obstructed and attempted to cripple the reforms demanded by the people. The Liberals have always initiated and advocated and agitated these reforms in the teeth of the Tory party, and they have been victorious (Cheers.) This is the difference between the Liberal and Tory. The Tory obstructs you and keeps you down. &nbsp;The Liberal helps you to get up, rise; and to-day I, as one whom I believe you will trust, tell you this that so far as I am concerned no uncertain sound shall proceed from me on this question (Cheers.) . . . &nbsp;I venture solemnly, seriously to warn you against being duped, hoodwinked by these atrocious statements of our opponents, and I would like you to ask them, if the Tory party have not opposed you, who has? (Cheers.) How is it that the franchise was not introduced when you first asked for it 13 years ago? &nbsp;Where has the opposition come from? Why as a matter of fact and certainty it has come from the usual quarter from which opposition to the people always has and always will come, from the Tory party. (Hear, hear). &nbsp;Although perhaps there may be individual men stupid enough to allow themselves to be hoodwinked (hear, hear), let me beseech of the mass of you to stand, firmly and honourable by the side of those of us who have led you to victory…”<br>
1672<br>
1673</h7><br>
1674 <h7>2. &nbsp;“A Word to Labourers,” <i>Kent &amp; Sussex Courier,</i> 13 January 1893, p. 6 <br>
1675<br>
1676“So far as Kent is concerned we believe there is now a real “reunion of hearts” between the three main elements into which the agricultural community is divided. A few years since it was not so. Then the labourers regarded their masters and their landlords, to say nothing about the parson, as their natural enemies. That feeling was the outcome of the pernicious teachings of Mr. Alfred Simmons and others connected with the Agricultural Labourers’ Union. But we all know how that union has dwindled into a state of impotency, after doing an infinitude of mischief in breaking up those kindly relations which had for many years existed between the Kentish farmers and their men. We have good warrant for saying that no one now regrets that more than the labourers themselves; &nbsp;and that in future they will rather treat their natural leaders — the landlords and the tenant farmers — than put any reliance in such mountebanks as Simmons, Steadman, and others, who only have their own selfish ends to served.&nbsp; Who that remembers that first meeting in the Bell Rink, at Maidstone, some three-and-twenty years ago, when Simmons, Roots, and Co., with the aid of the <i>Maidstone Telegraph,</i> floated the Agricultural Labourers’ Union, can look back upon it with anything but disgust and execration? &nbsp;How many of our sturdy Kentish labourers — good, honest men and true — that were then and afterwards led into joining the union ever suspected that it had its origin in an emigration scheme, whereby its promoters were to put a handsome sum into their pockets for every man, woman and child they could send out of the country? &nbsp; That scheme was the death-knell of hundreds . . . Simmons was king, with a following of twenty thousand dupes, not one of whom derived any lasting benefit from their slavish adherence to their newfound saviour. Their hard earned money was squandered in gew-gaws, scarves, ribbons, stars, flags, and banners; Simmons and his satellites drew high salaries, and in the end they prosecuted him for misappropriating their funds.”</h7><br><br><br><br>
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1685	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><div style="text-align: center"><h6>A house for Somerset Maugham’s <br>
1686Cockney barber, “Sheppey”<br></h6></div><br><h5>“I wish now I’d gone down to the Isle of Sheppey when the doctor advised it. You wouldn’t ’ave thought of looking for me there.”</h5><h5>— “Sheppey”, who was played by John Gielgud in the first prodution, speaking to Death in Somerset Maugham’s last play, <i>Sheppey: a Play in Three Acts,&nbsp;</i>1933</h5><br><h5><b>“</b>I know the very ’ouse I’m going to buy when my ship comes home. Two acres of land. View of the sea. Just the place for me and my old woman.”</h5>
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1694<img width="3035" height="1774" width_o="3035" height_o="1774" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad19046695c8f60572143e0ee1d15bbbef237b9c1bf7c85620d05346a3125a68/Fig-29.png" data-mid="89533441" border="0" alt="Plotland dwelling, near Sheerness, c. 1935" data-caption="Plotland dwelling, near Sheerness, c. 1935"/>
1695<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d308c94f6a3fedbe9f947a61644ac9d0e5865dd81caee6f2e1b3437ba67de6ac/014A8573-9789-4F15-A64F-D1A282B84CEF_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89492297" border="0" alt="Expanded bungalow, Warden" data-caption="Expanded bungalow, Warden"/>
1696<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb9924f81a030e5160a3ea7d4024f26b4e4b3451d0c98d3e8b6ea8678d625185/445D1C01-0E2D-4E7E-A640-0FC885510E79_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89494343" border="0" alt="Cheyney Rock House, formerly HQ of Mr. Alston's oyster empire" data-caption="Cheyney Rock House, formerly HQ of Mr. Alston's oyster empire"/>
1697<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6c84932220659aa3b1d0cd3045883d3cba1fdd2d2eb77d638c5817f1c02a97f/924E2153-BDA1-4F68-AECE-BC90F53A3636_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89492348" border="0" alt="&quot;Bungalette&quot;, Shellbeach" data-caption="&quot;Bungalette&quot;, Shellbeach"/>
1698<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8478f9f9953171b02b72382852dc1ac782e2ff3ecd
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1699<img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ece8e6a2e2069f5a59cc08dc08c68b2202384e224670d8da4aa40391e1c5a9b/IMG_1300.jpeg" data-mid="89929472" border="0" alt="Banks Terrace, Mile Town, Sheerness" data-caption="Banks Terrace, Mile Town, Sheerness"/>
1700<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eead09b5f8668a54a10dfb1ca23e079d3457ac29cb84f6247c94ca66848feb45/CDDE27D6-5C35-4FC0-A2A1-78221D7E8C95_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89773953" border="0" alt="Extended bungalette, Shellbeach" data-caption="Extended bungalette, Shellbeach"/>
1701<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da2a8ef0b517f99d10f899e06502ae970638eb728b7e2f0e8a3bb428fee43fb3/8267B184-B80A-469F-9E26-3A56713AE7BE_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89494393" border="0" alt="Shurland Hall, Eastchurch, remaining gatehouse ot &quot;the house that played host to Henry VIII&quot;" data-caption="Shurland Hall, Eastchurch, remaining gatehouse ot &quot;the house that played host to Henry VIII&quot;"/>
1702<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42401fec7c909eb1b8855d3e7f80cc654c8e005024847cd8376b540e8c3f4516/IMG_2603.jpeg" data-mid="89927836" border="0" alt="Warden Point, the last house before the advancing cliff " data-caption="Warden Point, the last house before the advancing cliff "/>
1703<img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab60712165541fa7c97705d395b9ad4a31408d219842f5925064cb831fff04c8/26F4EECC-1299-4089-A55D-75D179C452B6_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89492404" border="0" alt="&quot;As solid as a rock&quot;, house on Blue Town High Street, saved from slum clearance by Cypriot barber John Abramides" data-caption="&quot;As solid as a rock&quot;, house on Blue Town High Street, saved from slum clearance by Cypriot barber John Abramides"/>
1704<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5adb14a9d45ef214626a172bbfb2268ef34ca05221e9490c113cdea4ad005d0/A373E8CF-86A8-429D-AC3B-08F5A028DF3D_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89494398" border="0" alt="Flats where the Sea View Hotel once stood, Broadway, Sheerness" data-caption="Flats where the Sea View Hotel once stood, Broadway, Sheerness"/>
1705<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/095f789cb13c6f585084a90c518f8392d161c0f8f5ca4c739d9ccc6e8e8dcfd3/F80432F5-F6FB-4941-B29F-2D6A7A331FDB_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89494320" border="0" alt="Remnant of the village that once served the Turkey Cement Works at Elmley" data-caption="Remnant of the village that once served the Turkey Cement Works at Elmley"/>
1706<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a61eff57a7d93dbd72b2e12b418c3f75733a419739bf54a511de493de163f58d/423FBF48-7F45-4062-998A-7017EF80C010_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89492852" border="0" alt="The Glass House, formerly the Victoria, Marine Parade, Sheerness." data-caption="The Glass House, formerly the Victoria, Marine Parade, Sheerness."/>
1707<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a0f891f7985302d283bfaa73e5b77706a2a85e95cd9bf9cd9cf3e496f5cd32e/IMG_0911.jpeg" data-mid="89667618" border="0" alt="26  &amp; 25 Marine Parade, Sheerness" data-caption="26  &amp; 25 Marine Parade, Sheerness"/>
1708</div></div>
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1710</div><br>
1711
1712
1713<br>
1714<br>
1715<br>
1716<br><br><br><br><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1717	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1718	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><h6>Sheerness</h6></div></div>
1719	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1720</div><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A33%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1721<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3015bc5f48c81b1c631cc818b13b27dbeef8246bf50bf2ed5348a51412a3c66b/IMG_0839.jpeg" data-mid="91417732" border="0" alt="Gentleman outside the Belle and Lion,  a Wetherspoon pub on Sheerness High Street, 6 July 2018" data-caption="Gentleman outside the Belle and Lion,  a Wetherspoon pub on Sheerness High Street, 6 July 2018"/>
1722</div> 
1723<br><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive=""><div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1724	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><h6>“On-Sea” <br>
1725in all weathers</h6></div></div>
1726	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1727</div><br>
1728<div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0">
1729	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1730	<div grid-col="3" grid-pad="0"><img width="368" height="585" width_o="368" height_o="585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74a287ffaa5643e738aefda4ee2d57fc12f2570a181e53acae20ecedc43a6036/website1.jpeg" data-mid="87144033" border="0" data-scale="89"/></div>
1731	<div grid-col="7" grid-pad="0"><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A34%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1732<img width="3062" height="1849" width_o="3062" height_o="1849" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7cbc222894c3747c4704a4fa54fe4049f2ce0c9170d48d0c0f9cd8564e4f3b7/Scan-11-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="89118048" border="0" data-scale="100"/>
1733</div></div>
1734	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0">
1735</div>
1736</div>
1737<div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1738	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1739	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><br>
1740<div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A35%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1741<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9e79c11f319c353189144a32557fa1346d0ab56c859546d810a8428338eb851/0E6AFCE1-79F6-4714-A9FB-2D5DF51FC3A7_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89099215" border="0" />
1742<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14cde80e741a4ca999e2a7a2f4ed7348e8c24379fee12b13f6eafccd339cb519/66FCB114-86EB-42C6-BF34-300FCB2C4177_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89298736" border="0" />
1743<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c15dbd0335eb3153a5c9934cbec81872aed6a7f37440c5e3729033c43a620b2/EC834006-6052-4E28-8122-69536EC3CB39_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89779671" border="0" />
1744<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08b0b1333f227d187d70472dbfb8ab96f15adfa89eb1e53a49a67593aa90e99e/3F144D18-D5DF-4F34-8F0B-E4E8BA99AC16_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89099176" border="0" />
1745<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16c504ce54bff8829aa40db44b87aef19508d09175b86fe1277011364b33a49e/0EB84A52-B93B-4299-AF69-D8B254D6448B_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89099357" border="0" />
1746<img width="3215" height="2018" width_o="3215" height_o="2018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/771251d5079672acc77d4ab0c7515ff3d098e071ef30f1caa9dc03b88c7857f2/Scan-13.jpeg" data-mid="89018750" border="0" />
1747<img width="3235" height="2055" width_o="3235" height_o="2055" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfcc662299c100f16fcbc92595a1d23045d696da07ca40c6dbadfa8058616523/Scan-11.jpeg" data-mid="89018752" border="0" />
1748<img width="3072" height="2380" width_o="3072" height_o="2380" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af27b2f90669224885bfe912879819abc40b0e2c8a388e69a3764c4fdba55704/D20120626-101.jpg" data-mid="89018955" border="0" />
1749</div><br>
1750<br>
1751</div>
1752	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1753</div><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1754	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1755	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>Under snow</h6>
1756<br>
1757</div></div>
1758	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1759</div><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1760	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1761	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A36%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1762<img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/704c285869e31022e11703eb3caca9b7b706ae6b466fd4ca1c68315b00e7a69a/000008-1.JPG" data-mid="88680962" border="0" />
1763<img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7de3a2535ba3d7f54ce1dd2370d9af939ab7a99ef1d3a758a4c3ad204a056c41/000005.JPG" data-mid="88680965" border="0" />
1764<img width="2433" height="3637" width_o="2433" height_o="3637" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c3e6866cf9eac8057a4a832fd0fe472c49812300551c9c9b7a2c413b066a989/000007_Fotor2.jpg" data-mid="88681013" border="0" />
1765<img width="2433" height="3637" width_o="2433" height_o="3637" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fc4c42f141b9b77670370394d50a26bcac2a625bbb52fbe2c72a9abef72c476/000002_Fotor.jpg" data-mid="88681075" border="0" />
1766<img width="2433" height="3637" width_o="2433" height_o="3637" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4562063225f13a3e577226801ffc8a0211bf7eaa32bf579623023a8dce6d69e/000001_Fotor.jpg" data-mid="88688136" border="0" />
1767</div></div>
1768	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1769</div><br>
1770<div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1771	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1772	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h7>Sheerness photographed on 28 February 2018 by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/spilleon94/?hl=en">Simeon Haselton</a> “with my granddad's old [medium format Agfa Billy Record] camera, which was created in
1773the mid-30s, around the time of Uwe Johnson's birth”.</h7></div>
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1775</div><br><br><br><br><br><br>
1776<br><br>
1777<br>
1778<div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0">
1779	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1780	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>D.H. Lawrence on Marine Parade’s <br>
1781First Breakwater</h6>
1782<br>
1783</div><img width="1104" height="890" width_o="1104" height_o="890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29da6e23361fb1ab5aed73db160a8795ea6ab0b35977857ab7c1d5002e018592/Fig-83.jpeg" data-mid="89669699" border="0" alt="Marine Parade, circa 1865" data-caption="Marine Parade, circa 1865"/><br><br>
1784<h5>D.H. Lawrence’s mother, Lydia Beardsall, grew up in Sheerness before 1870, when an accident in the dockyard&nbsp; wrecked her father’s health and forced the family, which had lived there since 1858,&nbsp; to leave in some penury. Lawrence would later describe her as a “superior soul”(by which he surely didn’t mean that she was a snob).&nbsp; He also used her as the model for Gertrude Morel in his novel <i>Sons and Lovers</i> (1913): sensitive and intelligent but married to a brutalised and drunken Nottingham miner and inclined, in the midst of this life of “dreary endurance”, to grieve for the girl who had “run so lightly on the breakwater at Sheerness ten years before”.</h5></div>
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1786</div><br><br><br><br><br>
1787
1788
1789
1790<br><br>
1791<br><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1792	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1793	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><h6>Sheerness from above</h6></div></div>
1794	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1795</div><div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0">
1796	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1797	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><br>
1798<h5>“Then, for the first time, I saw Sheerness from 10,000 feet up, a spit of land between the Medway and the Thames.”<br>— Uwe Johnson, 1978</h5></div>
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1800</div><br>
1801<div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0" grid-responsive="">
1802	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1803	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A37%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1804<img width="719" height="382" width_o="719" height_o="382" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23c1960006b6b5ca2d81701a9b1484c7f62115c6505f93d33891876af072abed/Im19100104Aero-Rolls.jpg" data-mid="89017163" border="0" alt="C. S. Rolls in his Short-Wright flyer at the Aero Club&rsquo;s flying ground, Shellbeach, Sheppey, Flight, 1909" data-caption="C. S. Rolls in his Short-Wright flyer at the Aero Club’s flying ground, Shellbeach, Sheppey, Flight, 1909"/>
1805<img width="1098" height="716" width_o="1098" height_o="716" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cfb76bc41b175703ea52bdc42f306d4313eb497ed5611c647d5f3df083c2586/A6DE0209-CE5F-4DCA-92AB-BA99B9AD7137_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89286833" border="0" alt="Diewenow, a spit of land on the Pomeranian Baltic, where Johnson remembered summer days as an infant with his farming grandparents. Postcard, sent 1944" data-caption="Diewenow, a spit of land on the Pomeranian Baltic, where Johnson remembered summer days as an infant with his farming grandparents. Postcard, sent 1944"/>
1806<img width="2863" height="2801" width_o="2863" height_o="2801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68080292a2abb898b78b4937d2ac452a15fb8e1355ef843422b77b3f5e337013/D20120626-105-copy.jpg" data-mid="88955214" border="0" alt="Sheerness, c. 1978, looking west across the town and port to the Medway" data-caption="Sheerness, c. 1978, looking west across the town and port t
1806o the Medway"/>
1807</div></div>
1808	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1809</div><br>
1810<div grid-row="" grid-pad="0" grid-gutter="0">
1811	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1812	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A38%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A2.5%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22slide%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1813<img width="6425" height="4339" width_o="6425" height_o="4339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71e8926bcb7f01558e24876dc3a6c054f0e79fac8b79523050ab4a56816e588c/Fig-38-copy.jpg" data-mid="91550583" border="0" alt="Luftwaffe aerial photo of the &quot;war Harbour&quot; at Sheerness, 1943" data-caption="Luftwaffe aerial photo of the &quot;war Harbour&quot; at Sheerness, 1943"/>
1814</div></div>
1815	<div grid-col="1" grid-pad="0"></div>
1816</div><br>
1817<div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A39%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1818<img width="2938" height="2007" width_o="2938" height_o="2007" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91be5853e242621c89ce1fd91c027e820fa4b01c8249f0f0d5c737da77be94d1/D20120626-103-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="88955226" border="0" alt="Marine Town, Sheerness, c. 1978. Aerial photos by George Poule, Studio 137, Sheerness" data-caption="Marine Town, Sheerness, c. 1978. Aerial photos by George Poule, Studio 137, Sheerness"/>
1819</div>
1820
1821<br><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A40%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1822<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f065de2e7cdf2a896ce793e167b231b3c937ea194bc3fec69068b05f95426307/64D8936C-FDB5-4274-947F-9899DA7A3FC1_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89490663" border="0" alt=" Marine Parade, looking east from the sea wall opposite Johnson's house, 2017" data-caption=" Marine Parade, looking east from the sea wall opposite Johnson's house, 2017"/>
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1825	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h5>See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3nbXM5VUCI">Johnson’s neighbourhood</a> as a German visitor filmed it when he was still there in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3nbXM5VUCI">1981.</a></h5></div>
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1832<br>
1833<h6>The Johnsons’ House</h6><br><img width="343" height="204" width_o="343" height_o="204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdfe191d147c077b96258c5db214f487efb1a6518b2e5125704fccadbd2f8c39/D20120626-103-jst-house.jpg" data-mid="92937427" border="0" /><br>
1834</div></div><br>
1835<div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A41%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1836<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a96b0d0d450d33f96ce3eb5e29f749c1039141ba0ec9bd6ce53b1e998dd43da/IMG_0911.jpeg" data-mid="88690802" border="0" alt="26 Marine Parade" data-caption="26 Marine Parade"/>
1837<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f87e7d2cd51bad311da5e4f82b97bd17b5cbf74f1e986017337d1974406300ca/Two-Ships-test13.tiff184-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="88704809" border="0" />
1838<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7534eebb0986f1e9b1673302a7977e50687839a77c1ed3224e3726d9b074dd97/Two-Ships-test15-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="88704169" border="0" />
1839<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63d2b252ddc0039020f33b9a91c86a15439c2b0d40edd9ba2e5cd3795ce1b20e/Two-Ships-test14-copy.jpg" data-mid="88704163" border="0" />
1840<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/911b618fa58beeff89295db73129e9cf69ee67245e708f0b9ccba1a620be4d0b/Two-Ships-test9-copy-2.jpg" data-mid="88705156" border="0" />
1841<img width="1308" height="912" width_o="1308" height_o="912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc7670d1eac93d5cceb4ba5fd20f971f0f738efdc2f29dd5ad8759ae27a11aac/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-16.03.27.png" data-mid="89522967" border="0" />
1842<img width="1024" height="1024" width_o="1024" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac98b033ac99d491e8b3e7f812ca5c9a8f11a1e3971e9aa607c2a9aeb9f97538/65B0CCD7-D4BC-47E3-AEE7-F12282E800BE_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89299680" border="0" />
1843<img width="1024" height="1024" width_o="1024" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8e62cdcf52a36097a64ecd721cc23c9d7e9417b14c6fb63dd03f4a67f69d9ed/F41B43F4-9E9C-4F70-9A1B-AF3349F65AA3_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88694577" border="0" />
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1850	<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A42%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
1851<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/204146674ee60b7bb25df82669d3868f0441cc29de0e5267e6b32cd51e86bbed/Rear-View-1.jpeg" data-mid="91998573" border="0" alt="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade" data-caption="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade"/>
1852<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ac036edcd5a6eb02c2ff1971d2e498bbbf006a093e46e95205ab932823f303f/Rear-View-2.jpeg" data-mid="91998574" border="0" alt="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade" data-caption="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade"/>
1853<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ef1336a72c1836c1dba8ad6139b69de423985e999bdd0177ce693dba99c11ac/Rear-View-3.jpeg" data-mid="91998576" border="0" alt="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade" data-caption="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade"/>
1854<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8b6b3dfedb941cb59dcc731fcf8a6b29f84d87f05abd07f1beba097e4baf529/Rear-view-3.3.jpeg" data-mid="91998575" border="0" alt="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade" data-caption="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade"/>
1855<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/065a7e97ab6c7fd7ec5485aea480e30779aca7b0083bd254398507da3057cdc0/Raar-View-3.5.jpeg" data-mid="91998572" border="0" alt="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade" data-caption="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade"/>
1856<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e10e29bdd362e7ff4b8948322e19a1133a10c0082bb73895f1f8068af479b4a/Rear-View-4.jpeg" data-mid="91998577" border="0" alt="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade" data-caption="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade"/>
1857<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53f0e6de1d959d976f809bd6019ab5fd523052dddbb42f2709b9cf84228c3ed1/Rear-View-5.jpeg" data-mid="91998578" border="0" alt="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade" data-caption="Marine Town, from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade"/>
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1866	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center;"><h5>Mutual Aid: scaling the Heights of Alma. A pub seen from the upstairs back window of 26 Marine Parade</h5></div></div>
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1873	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><h6>Neighbour: Martin Aynscomb Harris, <br>the artist next door but one</h6></div></div>
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1882<br>
1883<h5>“He drives a Jaguar, even if he uses it the way other people use apple carts” (UJ, <i>Sea View,</i> 346-66).</h5></div>
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1893<h5>Martin Aynscomb Harris, selected paintings exhibited against his father-in-law’s car, Rowland’s Castle, Hampshire, c. 1965 (both pictures shown with thanks to Louise &amp; Emma Harris).</h5></div>
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1908	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><div style="text-align: center"><h5>Lighthouse, Cap Arkona, Rügen</h5> &nbsp;</div><h5>Günter Kunert once suggested that Uwe Johnson viewed the world through a “bell jar of strangeness”.&nbsp; Yet the glass behind which he isolated himself was surely the lens of an observatory too. When I put a question about Johnson’s essay “An Unfathomable Ship” to the German sociologist Renate Mayntz, who was a friend of the writer over many years, she described 
1908it as “very characteristic of [Johnson’s] way of looking at reality: incisive, cold, as objective as possible, a camera that catches all details and even the legacy, the history inscribed in the present... I think in his passionate search for descriptive exactness, for ‘truth’ without implied protest or some normative ‘message’, he was a true representative of Enlightenment. There are things you don’t have to say, you just need to show them.” <br>
1909<i>The Sea View Has Me Again, </i>p. 589.</h5></div>
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1923<img width="1736" height="972" width_o="1736" height_o="972" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59ec72f8b6c705f03f0b6458d47d607861bfdb3075684a257d8c32a08a61fef8/Screenshot-2020-11-20-at-15.59.56.png" data-mid="89522565" border="0" alt="Napier Tavern, Broadway, Sheerness, 2016." data-caption="Napier Tavern, Broadway, Sheerness, 2016."/>
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1929Johnson once told <i>Le Monde</i> that his years in the GDR had equipped him with an “irreplaceable method of interrogation and experimentation.” (<i>Sea View,</i> p. 36). Two local pubs, in particular, came to serve as the informal research institutes in which he applied this challenging mode of enquiry to the people of Sheerness. His chosen hostelries, The Sea View Hotel and the Napier Tavern, were both on Broadway, close to his house. According to Ronald Peel, publican at the Napier Tavern, Johnson always turned up at the same time in the evening, stepping into the&nbsp; saloon bar with a brief “Good Evening” — or “Good heavening!” as Johnson himself imagines them registering his pronunciation — and then taking his customary place on a high, wooden barstool with a seat upholstered in red synthetic leather of the type Tom Waits was in those days hymning as “Naugahyde”. He allegedly always wore the same distinctive garb too: a black peaked watchman’s cap, a black leather jacket, black trousers, black leather boots, and sometimes a thin black leather tie — the same gear, in other words, that had shocked the poet and translator, Michael Hamburger, who had been astonished to find this highly regarded and sensitive writer going about in the garb of a Hell’s Angel or skinhead. <i>(Sea View, </i>p. 392)<br></div>
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1935	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center"><h6>“Charlie’s” bar stool</h6></div></div>
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1940<img width="1182" height="665" width_o="1182" height_o="665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/942d491d255f3063f573b6ac191e7754dbcaefdb82a97f1c5808d71832d10b79/D6C497B4-1845-47CA-A20A-A478448F0A81_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88684101" border="0" />
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1945	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><i><h5> Long preserved as a relic at the Napier Tavern, the stool from which Johnson, aka “Charlie”, observed and sometimes participated in proceedings is here seen in use as a prop with Big Fish and Friends at their performance of texts from UJ’s Island Stories, Little Theatre, Meyrick Road, Sheerness, 5 March 2016.</h5></i></div>
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1953	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><div style="text-align: center"><b><h6>The bedspread and the kidney machine: charity fund-raising at the Sea View Hotel</h6></b></div></div>
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1961	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><h5>Publican Col Mason (left) handing a cheque for £184 to the chairman of the local kidney machine fund. “The Mayor is in attendance, complete with his chains, and so too is Johnson: an uncaptioned figure standing alongside the others at the back.” (<i>Sea View,</i> p. 401). The white object, front, was first prize in the raffle. As Johnson wrote to friends in Rostock: “Now I wanted to win that bedspread for you. Further details can be found on the two enclosed raffle tickets, and as for this white monstrosity’s weight, I will say only that the ladies’ knees buckled slightly when it was placed in their two arms for them to admire it.” The picture was printed in the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian</i> on 15 September 1978.<br>
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1968	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h5><div style="text-align: center;"><b><h6>The (other) sociologist and the glass that was never raised</h6></b><br>
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1970</div>Johnson, may have been unaware of it, but he wasn’t the
1971only person investigating the Isle of Sheppey and the situation of its remaining people after the naval dockyard and also the associated army garrison and naval command (“The Nore” )&nbsp; were closed in 1960. &nbsp; Ray Pahl, the geographically trained professor
1972of Sociology at the University of Kent, also started exploring the Isle of Sheppey
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1979island as a kind of research laboratory in which to investigate the consequences
1980of deindustrialisation of the kind that had destroyed the island’s economy at a
1981stroke. Starting out with romantic ideas of the “urban pirate” with his often
1982less than legal ways of “getting by”, he approached the Isle of Sheppey as a
1983place where the post-industrial future was already coming into view. He traced the
1984emergence of the “informal economy” on the island, and the replacement of the full
1985time male job with a more mixed form of “household economy” in which women’s
1986work, DIY initiatives, &nbsp;and sometimes nefarious
1987forms of “self-provisioning” featured largely. 
1988Together w ith his Ph.D student and co-researcher, Claire Wallace, Pahl also
1989studied the experience and perceptions of school leavers on the island. They produced
1990work of abiding influence on economic and social policy – Pahl in his book <i>Divisions
1991of Labour </i>(1984) and Wallace in her later study of the “fracture” the closure
1992imposed on the lives and expectations of girls and boys in <i>For Richer, For
1993Poorer: Growing up In and Out of Work</i> (1987). &nbsp;Johnson and Pahl may never have met to compare
1994findings but their accounts of island life in the seventies and early eighties have
1995a world in common.&nbsp; <br>
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2004The Kingsferry Bridge across the Swale was built&nbsp; in
20051960, a year in which the island economy was shattered by the closure of the
2006dockyard at Sheerness. An entirely practical structure, which carried trains as
2007well as road vehicles between Sheppey and the richer mainland to which Kent’s
2008reputation as the “Garden of England” has always been attached, it achieved&nbsp; symbolic significance for Pahl:<br><br>
2009“Pahl’s drive over the Kingsferry Bridge was not just
2010a crossing from the“macro” to the “micro” level of analysis, nor, in the terms that
2011his PhD student and co-researcher Claire Wallace would borrow from the sociologist
2012Basil Bernstein, from the “elaborated” code<br>of middle-class language to the more practical and allegedly “restricted” code
2013of working-class speech. For Pahl, crossing the Swale also meant preferring
2014“hard, obdurate reality” against the “disembodied” theories gripping many of
2015his colleagues at the university. Sheppey was where Pahl would take his stand,
2016seeking to go beyond the vivid but far from “scientific” investigations carried
2017out by Mass Observation and by writers such as George Orwell and J.B. Priestley
2018in the Thirties. As time went on, he would also claim common cause with E.P. Thompson,
2019the Marxist historian and activist who asserted the case for experience, agency
2020and the historically dynamic nature of social class as against what he called
2021the “poverty of theory” [embodied by Louis Althusser and his English followers] in a blazing
2022English tract published in 1978.”&nbsp; (<i>Sea View,</i> p. 421)</h5><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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2034<h5>Wherever he found himself, Uwe Johnson required newspapers. In West Germany, it might be <i>
2034Die Zeit</i> or <i>Der Spiegel</i>.&nbsp; In Rome it was L<i>a Stampa</i>. He read the <i>New York Times</i> in Berlin as well as during his trips to America.&nbsp; In England he took both the national <i>Guardian</i> and the island weekly, the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian.</i></h5></div>
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2041<h5>In the first edition on January 1858, the founder of the <i>Sheerness Guardian, </i>Thomas Rigg, had hailed Sheerness as an outward-looking new town that had nothing in common with parochial and tradition-bound communities on the Kentish mainland. <br><br>Unlike such backwaters, Sheerness had “scarcely any aboriginal race”. It was open to the wider world via the naval and military establishments that formed the primary reason for its existence. The town, said Rigg, was “a colony of emigrants from all parts of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.” And “to such a society,” so Rigg proudly declared, “the affairs of the neighbouring country are, in most cases, about as interesting as the local policy of Timbuctoo.”</h5><br>
2042<h5>More than a century later, the <i>Sheerness Times Guardian</i>&nbsp; would provide Johnson with stories —informative, moving and peculiar too — to pass on to faraway friends. It would also serve as a screen, or perhaps something closer to a crinkly net curtain, through which an unconvinced incomer might peer without giving anything away: a useful device, in other words, when it comes to keeping your perceptions “non-committal” and, as Johnson continued in a letter to Max Frisch, preventing them from ‘ascending into experience or judgement’. There was, though, an exception to be made for the <i>Kent Evening Post </i>(context:<i> Sea View, </i>pp. 452-58)</h5>
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2059	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><h6>Island Music</h6><br><h5><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A46%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2060<img width="510" height="510" width_o="510" height_o="510" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6a054aa859167eb11ca184229ff5e756a7371540ce5ac68c41a81b501c63633/michael-contant-2011-legacy-cd-458.jpg" data-mid="89673636" border="0" data-scale="61"/>
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2065	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0">Henry Russell, the composer of “A Life on the Ocean Wave”,: Cheers, Boys, Cheers” and many other popular songs of the nineteenth century, was born into <a href="http://www.jtrails.org.uk/trails/sheerness-and-blue-town" target="_blank">Sheerness’s Jewish community</a> in 1812.<br><br>Yet the island’s music had changed by the 1970s. As Johnson is likely to have discovered from the pages of the <i>
2065Sheerness Times Guardian,</i> Michael “Natsy” Contant was one of the very first to introduce Caribbean steel bands to Britain and Europe. Having come from Trinidad as a tuner with the Dixieland Steel Orchestra in 1960, he lived for many years at 7 Delamark Road in Sheerness, tuning pans on a stretch of waste ground&nbsp; beside Kingsferry Bridge and, with his classically trained wife Carol and their children, forming the Rainbow Steel Band, which regularly presented “music of the Caribean” on the island as well as elsewhere in Britain and Europe. Their “hauntingly beautiful” sound, and especially&nbsp; their arrangement of Richard Addinsell’s “Warsaw Concerto”, appears to have been particularly popular with Sheppey audiences.<br>— <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4ggyO-OFXU&amp;list=FLYipnd3sALx9zFdqLd_PagQ&amp;index=1514" target="_blank">“Love My Life”</a> Robbie Williams’s day at Shellness</div>
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2108	<div grid-col="5" grid-pad="1.75"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><h5>St. Sexburgha’s Abbey: Minster-on-Sea:<br></h5>
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2112<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccc977ed6a9aff52eb1fd8820694add281c289d2bca0ca90f85266b4e620d91f/281C13E6-C7E2-4151-96B7-F39B451E6CAA_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89235809" border="0" /><br></div>
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2115<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e56018be582db839cdbeca82943aad83936d269c962ee4916afd881083db2688/80B1C021-AA42-4291-A0EA-77D87098C33B_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89287864" border="0" /></div>
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2128<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec717cb5618d84c9cdf322fd7c5c58195a87d526dfb37a8340036ed5a77366bd/Raar-View-3.5.jpeg" data-mid="91697030" border="0" alt="Minster Abbey, from top rear window of Johnson's house, 2018" data-caption="Minster Abbey, from top rear window of Johnson's house, 2018"/>
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2138	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0" class=""><div style="text-align: center;"><h6>INTERWININGS<br>
2139<br>The Transnational Landscape:<br> Ahrenshoop, Fischland and Shellbeach, Sheppey</h6></div><br>
2140<h5>“Fischland is the most beautiful place in the world.” <br>— Gesine Cresspahl in <i>Anniversaries IV</i><br>
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2144</h5><br>
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2146<div style="text-align: center"><img width="2484" height="3408" width_o="2484" height_o="3408" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c71e9d02cd5dd0a3b9773d743c57ee6e9ef997e75a43c4df66e0aa5fb6b8d64/Scan-15.jpeg" data-mid="91677783" border="0" /></div></div>
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2150<iframe frameborder="0" width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/490856546?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" allowfullscreen="" data-caption="Aooroaching the sea, Ahrenshoop."></iframe>
2151</div>
2152<br><div style="padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/488070698?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" class="" data-caption="Ahrenshoop (amateur version)"></iframe></div>
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2159<img width="3072" height="2304" width_o="3072" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e2fac08524c6c8da19c13843a7156a44ff3a5b3bc70af11160cf03f019b87c3/Ahrenshoop-Summer.jpeg" data-mid="89120782" border="0" alt="Ahrenshoop in Summer" data-caption="Ahrenshoop in Summer"/>
2160<img width="4099" height="2729" width_o="4099" height_o="2729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f74a84d2c380bb1e2bc11967c4f8b30df4df1d9b9eb166bbc1ff8435c2d35405/Shellness-with-bungalettes.jpeg" data-mid="89121089" border="0" alt="Shellness" data-caption="Shellness"/>
2161<img width="3072" height="1728" width_o="3072" height_o="1728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2197471a5683e81a083026c92c9ba4031d1532015d6db5b0543161de0b367be8/sherllness-closer.jpeg" data-mid="87151722" border="0" alt="Shellness" data-caption="Shellness"/>
2162<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ae65facaa191ac4016d8cae0bce48067e09e67fc50256e90cd7719fbd56d965/Ahrenshoop-Winter.jpeg" data-mid="89121085" border="0" alt="Ahrenshoop in Winter" data-caption="Ahrenshoop in Winter"/>
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2174<h5>On Sheppey, the Englishman isn’t always an Englishman and his home is definitely neither a castle nor a stately home raised on colonial extraction or slavery. “Bungalettes”at Shellbeach.<br>
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2182<div style="text-align: center"><h6>Two Island Resorts</h6></div><br>
2183<div style="text-align: center;"><h5>1. Leysdown-on-Sea</h5><br><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/490866094?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="width: 640px; height: 360px;"></iframe>
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2187<h5>“We
2188can all agree that Britain’s coast has been trashed. Yet has it ever been so
2189sedulously trashed as on Sheppey? Leysdown on the northeast corner of that isle
2190is terminal England, the last resort, the nadir of bungalow development. It makes Hayling look like Biarritz...” <br>— Jonathan Meades, “Last Resort” (1991)</h5><br><br><img width="3150" height="1997" width_o="3150" height_o="1997" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7f745c6b593676558baa3ffe6d946ebb9d4ca00f02cadf03125235496dbbdc1/Leysdown-1.jpeg" data-mid="92941322" border="0" /><img width="998" height="748" width_o="998" height_o="748" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ef412a69a0d71696b10112645daaa2539868e8e1b09fbb43310306871c2a3f9/Leysdown-2.png" data-mid="92941775" border="0" /><img width="3211" height="2049" width_o="3211" height_o="2049" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09786d56c8710bbedb51e1c3b907234707be620d3b115cb9b373f09302185dac/Leysdown-3.jpg" data-mid="92941323" border="0" /><img width="3171" height="1925" width_o="3171" height_o="1925" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db850b714b9c99731adf21460c1050400ca0225c1b7a4222189b6df6cbfafd7c/Leysdown-4.jpg" data-mid="92941325" border="0" /><img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98c8c9bbf91a0f5dc06b5612b9fe16f2bdd0138a8320394af5f2f4652e729a1e/Leysdown-5.jpeg" data-mid="92941327" border="0" /><br>
2191<br><h5>“The bricolage and inspiredly untutored inventiveness of most early twentieth century plotlands is missing. On the shore, half a mile from the village’s centre, there are asbestos and wooden hutments, endlessly buffeted by the howling easterly. Bent bushes try to smother them.”&nbsp; (Meades)</h5><br>
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2197<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/235e857916fb26846a847e97240d5bd783ae65680b9fc2552cc594ce5a4d0d16/Leysdown-8.jpeg" data-mid="92941756" border="0" /><h5>“Leysdown on Sea is the ancestral dreamsite of a Lost Tribe: all the aboriginal cockney characteristics, celebrated in fiction and in song, have migrated here – and have been buried alive in pitches of caravans, mobile homes, wooded sentry boxes (inner-city privies), and upturned tin boats, veterans of Dunkirk.” (Iain Sinclair, <i>Downriver </i>(1991, p. 397).</h5><br>
2198<img width="1186" height="880" width_o="1186" height_o="880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d9758a6e25b0c39301df9e74a78bc9ba608e5731cb4d0d88eb66b3f70434caf/Screenshot-2020-12-23-at-12.13.22-copy.jpg" data-mid="92941280" border="0" /><img width="1266" height="936" width_o="1266" height_o="936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c67be87860d51c3c189cc9df25c2f620818d794b227b5041cf2f39fe720a74d/Leysdown-10.png" data-mid="92941485" border="0" /><img width="1532" height="846" width_o="1532" height_o="846" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/063ee9d71160cf38be198135a56df75257883b5fc518f2d284d6ba4b7773e9a8/Leysdown-11.png" data-mid="92941487" border="0" /><h5><br>Out-of-season objectors aside, Squeeze’s song “Pulling Mussels from the Shell” (1980) was inspired by nostalgic memories of family holidays at Leysdown.&nbsp; <a href="http://Squeeze’s song, “Pulling Mussels from the Shell”, (1980), was inspired by memories of holidays at Leysdown. It is here accompanied by footage from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.&nbsp;">Here</a> it is, accompanied by footage from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.&nbsp;</h5><br><br>
2199<br><h5>Regeneration: Heavy Lifting by Artists (2009-2013) 
2200 <a href="https://www.francisknight.co.uk/public-realm/leysdown-rose-tinted" target="_blank">“Leysdown-Rose-Tinted”</a><br>
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2212<br><br><div style="text-align: center"><h5>2. Prora</h5></div><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A51%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Afalse%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2213<img width="2459" height="1883" width_o="2459" height_o="1883" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/517c90e776fc88b1173513984eff3e2c2842a8432df7468818f04cf5bf9a4c83/Prora-1-copy.jpg" data-mid="92005341" border="0" alt="A wall in the Documentation Centre at Prora" data-caption="A wall in the Documentation Centre at Prora"/>
2214</div><br><h5>Whatever may be said about the laissez-faire mess that is Leysdown-on-Sea, it was never as dismal as the colossal resort of Prora, built in the late Thirties as part of the Nazi government’s “Strength through Joy” initiative. Conceived as one of five vast “Sea Baths” proposed for workers following the destruction of Germany’s trade unions, it consists of a series of huge six-floor concrete blocks placed along the 4.5 kilometre length of a magnificent Baltic beach on the spit connecting Sassnitz and Binz on the eastern coast of the Pomeranian Island of Rügen.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>
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2220<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e9dc705930ebcc61f3ef124dbc0373db5fcb9372cea72cc153bee14a6713414/Prora-3.jpeg" data-mid="92005343" border="0" />
2221<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/091357721057d4969536a0f1228a80bf0974c40da1152d733a59a16b1c62bbcf/Prorta-4.jpeg" data-mid="92005354" border="0" />
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2223<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfdf7432a4732af433249d4eba41b6425ae0424bfc577b6875c720494a039b6d/5Prora-5.jpeg" data-mid="92005340" border="0" />
2224</div><br><h5>Robert Ley, the Nazi head of the German Labour Front (Uwe Johnson allows him a brief appearance in <i>Anniversaries</i> as a “drunken pig”), imagined Prora as a Nazi answer to Butlins that would provide compliant workers with a week of indoctrinated leisure. Every room would have a sea view. There would be cinemas, swimming pools, canteens and, at Hitler’s insistence, a central arena in which twenty thousand joyful workers could be addressed as a concentrated Sieg Heiling mass.<br>
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2233<img width="3072" height="2048" width_o="3072" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e97940068ade27c939405d61db962e523af96cf45f95b44a3262d204bfb47a6/Prora-7.8.jpeg" data-mid="92005347" border="0" />
2234<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4eb8413cddd28cdf6833e818f45aaac7ce6532a9165cbb6a4f60a934a5d9b9b7/Prora-8.jpeg" data-mid="92005349" border="0" />
2235<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c7eabd746a0a989b81c4af713a03464ed59be4a7ffd497c669a1d29418f5c2e/Prtra-9.jpeg" data-mid="92005356" border="0" />
2236<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9c34395c7413321d0b5dd9f09c571a85ea9ccbc719de5b551a048dd5eb9e809/Prora-10.jpeg" data-mid="92005352" border="0" />
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2239<h5>In 1991 this never-completed line of Aryan barracks (construction was interrupted by the outbreak of war in September 1939) emerged from GDR military control as a set of disconcerting ruins. When we last visited the site, some of its reinforced concrete was acquiring an unexpectedly luxurious shine. The developers who had bought some of the blocks, themselves now listed for conservation, were bringing them to new life, although not as the centre for refugees that some critics have suggested might be appropriate. Two-bedroom apartments with new balconies were being offered at €600,000 and upward.<br>
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2244<br><br><h5><a href=" https://www.thelocal.de/20180808/investor-turning-nazi-indoctrination-camp-into-luxury-apartments-goes-bust" target="_blank">The Investor shipwrecked.</a><br>
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2260</h6><br><h5><div style="text-align: left">“It all revolved around the view. It was the view that was appropriated.” <br>
2261— Uwe Johnson, on Riverside Park, “A Part of New York,” 1968 <br>
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2266<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f30b412efb29e5e14ce625cd1e683bdd49b2aab8518b598112af8c4a8538d8c/DSCN0298.jpeg" data-mid="91668705" border="0" />
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2269</div><br><div style="text-align: left"><h5>“It may be not merely egotistical if I describe to you some views to be seen over the course of a few afternoon hours. Views, namely, out the window, and I wish you could have seen them: the two of us, next to each other, right in front of the house, where the poorer folks from London enjoy disporting themselves on a Sunday like this one, as tourists by the sea, visible only from the waist up to me and my dear wife Mrs. Letsnotdiscussit, and yet still a valuable warning about the lack of, or taste in, leisure attire. Following them come the waves of the River Thames, sea-like here, beating against the stones as high or as low as the Royal Geographical Tidal Institute’s calendar permits them to. For an ignorant observer such as myself, they are merely bright white a long way out, a little dirty-looking but choppy in any case; the last third of my visual field, though, is <i>as blue as blue can be, </i>magnificently changeable, from pale to gray to strapping within this color. Within and atop this blue, what is there to say to a lady from Königsberg: bathers in various stages of suffering from sunburn, boats with sails in fashionable colorations, some of them even classified and many of them well-suited to offer me certain memories, silent but critical, pertaining to the process of jibing. People paddling, those who let themselves be brought hither and thither by petrol engines, and on the horizon, where cartography would suggest that we should be able to detect the south 
2269coast of Essex, merely a difference: not a line, a smudge between water and sky, that educated people label as a horizon and which is therefore mine. And I’ve almost forgotten to admit to you the rude British Petroleum oil tanker that just now went pitching from right to left, from east to west, across the window — probably because I believe I share your opinion of such objects in one’s field of view.”
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2294The SS Richard Montgomery:<br>
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2303“In the Thames, about two miles off the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, a cluster of parallel diagonal poles catches one’s eye. They are visible especially at low tide, but also when the tide is eighteen feet higher, because behind them tosses and pitches almost ten miles of the water’s surface as well as, since the Essex coast in the distance quite noticeably veers off to the north, the horizon line under the quickly shifting illuminations of the sky. Whoever moves here to the town of Sheerness, on the northwest corner of the island, is struck by the reflections of the light in the multiply moving mouth of the Thames and North Sea, and at first he thinks those poles are fish traps, blown into a diagonal position by a ferocious west wind, since the eye is easily fooled about distances when looking out across a boundless body of water; the black triangle that becomes visible between the poles at ebb tide can easily be taken for a fishing boat with underlying property rights. Whoever has moved here and has decided he is in need of binoculars will find himself losing faith in those fish traps, since for two weeks they are not moved once, and furthermore the poles are of unequal length, and in a strangely regular relationship with one another, and located too close to the central waterway. What is that thing?”<br>— U.J. “An Unfathomable Ship” (1979)<br>
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2308</div></div><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A56%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2309<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d60c3c50e9a05c2d8c59bf06289e4c14169dbd09e3de3635b78ecdd84cad7ea8/DSCN0054.jpeg" data-mid="88702817" border="0" />
2310<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bb6f54b6aedd67ccae3a399b89bfe04e72ebb07bd1ba894c4fe3cdec8f8dfa7/DSCN0261.jpg" data-mid="88702814" border="0" />
2311</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><h5><br>
2312“Our one sight worth seeing”
2313<br>
2314“Either we’ll go down wet, or we’ll go up in a fireball”<br>
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2318</h5></div></div><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A57%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2319<img width="1688" height="826" width_o="1688" height_o="826" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23909e599fb25be5cf587ecf6f6872b175628cdf143a35845d57c85957bc868e/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.02.55.png" data-mid="92464335" border="0" />
2320<img width="1366" height="902" width_o="1366" height_o="902" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c37380b62f21f4afd01370681caf5f7d68d385431a3e2958a780440a23f7edb/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.03.24.png" data-mid="92464336" border="0" />
2321<img width="1274" height="944" width_o="1274" height_o="944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59e1e60a8b822baf4a418d69ede53009ec8f914cceba0412709080b942b25282/Screenshot-2020-12-14-at-10.04.12.png" data-mid="92464337" border="0" />
2322</div><br>
2323<br>
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2325<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/490859325?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="640" height="338" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="width: 640px; height: 338px;" class=""></iframe>
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2327<br>
2328<div style="text-align: center;"><h5>The Explosion</h5></div><br><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><h5>“An explosion of this mixture will be among the largest in human memory, if you leave aside the nuclear ones. If you take the <i>Richard Montgomery </i>as the centre of a circle with a radius of two miles, the first land to be hit will be the northwest corner of the island, with the town and port of Sheerness. The older buildings and unreinforced walls will collapse, and the gas and water pipes will shatter. Within a radius of seven miles, broken glass and the collapse of any wobbly chimneys or loose roofs are likely. That circle includes half of the town of Sittingbourne, as well as the oil port and refinery complex on the Isle of Grain, west of Sheppey. The detonation may cause a fireball whose air pressure will fling heavy objects and debris more than a mile, perhaps into one of the supertankers with a hundred thous
2328and tons of oil in its belly. (The <i>Richard Montgomery</i> lies near the extremely busy shipping channel of the Thames. A few miles farther north, Her Royal Highness’s Ministry of Defence maintains and runs a naval artillery range in the ocean, whose detonations reach the windows of Sheerness like fist blows.) A simultaneous explosion of the whole cargo will cause a tidal wave to rush up the Medway and Thames rivers, destroying additional settlements near the banks. At low tide, the effects would be multiplied, due to there being less water to absorb the shock. The ultimate extent of the damage will be determined by the weather. Any heavy, low-lying cloud cover above the exploding cargo of bombs will bounce back ascending shock waves and the multiple ricochets will reach Canvey Island, ten miles upstream, where they will hit storage tanks with a holding capacity of almost forty thousand barrels of oil as well as chemical and methane gas containers. A chain reaction or domino effect could produce damage in the eastern suburbs of London, to a greater or lesser extent. It is unlikely that the House of Commons or Whitehall would be affected.”<br>
2329— UJ “An Unfathomable Ship”<br>
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2333</h5></div></div><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A58%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2334<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ea713e2c272c508d97da3d61931a05c45383bd2146f1f9b4cc3a12887036b4e/4BA85103-CBED-4D3D-89EA-8B7D15E9F3E2_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89299143" border="0" />
2335<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9790ecb4b6462e2e41b2a1b10417ff1f1b4c6ff5701a2252ec090936a2c75f4/FD4630BC-59CD-43A8-9AF4-87990C8EFDAB_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89299060" border="0" />
2336<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fb52781189b058f5826f7427b546c819dae3bc909ce3a967bf20102800034da/BA6575F9-D3EE-4ACC-84EE-4D4F5D81EFB8_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88695638" border="0" />
2337<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/009025d82e5074f97958ac8b95d4d9f1fa85a3ee7924641fc7a5d83260ba96ea/05EA9976-3407-4F48-A592-1EDA0E7171F7_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88695627" border="0" />
2338</div>
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2340<br>
2341<br><br><br><br><br><br>
2342<br>
2343<div style="text-align: center;"><h6>The Cap Arcona</h6></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h5></h5></div><br>
2344<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04aaf74767828b6ddab4ef8e78376597b12a0361bebbbc8b0dfe5619b64f698f/DSCN0533-2.jpeg" data-mid="88728380" border="0" /><br>
2345 <div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A59%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2346<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c06aff3618e06a64d0aaecb20877778c34d966db26c34e80c2b9fda224e67f2/A004C307_171130SV_CANON-copy.jpg" data-mid="88870034" border="0" />
2347<img width="2362" height="1329" width_o="2362" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d6b0bdc05b45182a74c20f34c5cc0f6e84afa23c831012ad922b9df66faad0a/A004C319_171130LK_CANON-copy.jpg" data-mid="88793819" border="0" />
2348<img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2be80adb189f0d05af9dabfe0d477e3d1d3d9e110df418db08c7a7c22969e11a/DSCN0586.JPG" data-mid="88594992" border="0" />
2349<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a92decfefb97610fbc93a00284e408b77b7cc07f87c5cf36f82e6d38e83b9003/5E2BEEC8-5CEE-4CB4-B4FD-7A262ED23302_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88695786" border="0" />
2350<img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d90c649b7958536e69a72551473ca11cbc0c4dc82c89fc9182435d08e023b7ce/BB1B207B-6A95-4AC3-836E-6C760F01FE62_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="88728396" border="0" />
2351</div><br><div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/480034253?autoplay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" class=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><h5><br>
2352Many other such maritime explosions have been brought to mind by people trying to come to terms with the devastation threatening the Thames estuary from the SS Richard Montgomery. Local examples included the battleship HMS Bulwark, which exploded when moored off Sheerness on 26 November 1914, disappearing in a few seconds, with a loss of 741 men; and also the minelaying liner HMS Princess Irene, which went up killing 352, many of them local dockyard workers, in another disaster six months later. As will be known to readers of <i>Anniversaries III</i>, the exploding ships at the back of Johnson’s mind as he looked out on the masts of the&nbsp;<i>Richard Montgomery, </i>included one that took its name from the northernmost point of the Baltic island of Rügen. &nbsp;<br>
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2368By 1927, the chalky headland and lighthouse called Cap Arkona had given rise to an ocean-going liner: built and launched that year for the Hamburg-South American Line”, the SS Cap Arcona was a “floating palace” that became famous as the fastest most luxuri
2368ous ship on the route for Latin America. Requisitioned during the Second World War, it was used as a barrack at the Baltic port of Gotenhafen, now restored to Poland as Gdynia. By the last days of the war in 1945, its engines had been burnt out during three desperate voyages shipping Germans west from the Russian advance, and it was moored in Neustadt Bay, not far from Lübeck. As Allied forces approached from the West, prisoners from various abandoned concentration camps were crammed aboard the Cap Arcona and other ships including a cargo vessel named the SS Thielbeck, and left to whatever dire fate awaited them.</h5></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><h5><br>
2369As Johnson writes, “Freedom came across the bright sunny bay on May 3 in the shape of a squadron of British bombers.” Actually Typhoon fighter bombers from four squadrons were involved in the operation. They used rockets to sink the Cap Arcona and Thielbeck, along with several other undefended ships, and then came back to&nbsp;machine gun survivors<br>
2370<br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A60%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2371<img width="1834" height="1288" width_o="1834" height_o="1288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45207ba34be6b27a34d324a36c310031f9fcdb04b1ed10c63eae2606c63257f6/IMG_1953-copy.jpg" data-mid="92938292" border="0" alt="SS. Cap Arcona, 1948" data-caption="SS. Cap Arcona, 1948"/>
2372</div><br>
2373 in the water. Those who survived that second assault, faced the prospect of being murdered by SS and other killers if they made it onto beaches at Timmendorfer, Priwall and Travemunde.. Between seven and eight thousand people of thirty differtent nationalities are said to have died. Corpses would turn up on scattered beaches for decades to come. Long before Remembrance Day was drafted into the service of Brexit, survivors had noted — with various degrees of anger and dismay — that the Cap Arcona disaster has not been allowed to disturb British commemoration of the Second World War.<br>
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2377</h5><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A61%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2378<iframe frameborder="0" width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/490857169?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" allowfullscreen="" data-caption="Timmendorfer Strand"></iframe>
2379</div>
2380<br>
2381<br><br>
2382<br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A62%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2383<iframe frameborder="0" width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/490858244?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" allowfullscreen="" data-caption="Houses next to the old cemetery, Klütz, Mecklenburg"></iframe>
2384</div>
2385<p></p><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A63%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2386<iframe frameborder="0" width="640" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/490857802?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" allowfullscreen="" data-caption="Memomrial to 16 identified victims of the sinking of the SS Cap Arcona"></iframe>
2387</div>
2388<p></p>
2389</div></div><br><div class="image-gallery" data-gallery="%7B%22mode_id%22%3A6%2C%22gallery_instance_id%22%3A64%2C%22name%22%3A%22Slideshow%22%2C%22path%22%3A%22slideshow%22%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22autoplay%22%3Afalse%2C%22autoplaySpeed%22%3A%2210%22%2C%22speed%22%3A0.5%2C%22arrows%22%3Atrue%2C%22transition-type%22%3A%22scrub%22%2C%22constrain_height%22%3Atrue%2C%22image_vertical_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_horizontal_align%22%3A%22middle%22%2C%22image_alignment%22%3A%22image_middle_middle%22%2C%22mobile_data%22%3A%7B%22separate_mobile_view%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22meta_data%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22captions%22%3Atrue%7D%7D">
2390<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f05cc810da7a082a0f26226a1b12f19b126bf8a32e282dc24e6ba6ecbfd4b872/CE6FEE93-0CD0-491E-B595-31DFE1A89CE7_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89489696" border="0" alt="The old cemetery, Kl&uuml;tz" data-caption="The old cemetery, Klütz"/>
2391<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/623f383fabd4968bf3a20b6343ee55bffbecaa3081ed956b7a09771e96d6496c/76EC92A6-4878-4208-B278-EE91FFDF17CF_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89489690" border="0" />
2392<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dacf711a357d27726511cd931f95c733ca340546dd1fa931ae8abf77cadf538b/C894DE84-57C7-42B7-B11E-A5D8CBF4EDE9_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89489701" border="0" />
2393<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31f40dd8484fa6a14f259e6807b7d0e051ebbb3dc69f735967a6cc2f16ace71f/84B597D4-CAAC-4244-BB79-84994DBEF23B_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89489703" border="0" />
2394<img width="1086" height="724" width_o="1086" height_o="724" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c4b299a9050c6cdab68425e98c1331f0ad0e34920742165c76fbf5ece7a348f/410943C7-D034-4127-A7BF-3A309B5E4933_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="89489705" border="0" />
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2409The Sheerness Wall<br>
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2413</h6></div><br><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><h5>Johnson knew the Berlin version well, but his last months were plagued by the construction of a very different wall directly across the road from his window.<br><br></h5><div style="text-align: center"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/490867831?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="640" height="338" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="width: 640px; height: 338px;" class=""></iframe></div><h5>
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2416“I have, no doubt, let fall a word or two about the inexorable pollution and impoverishment of the city of Sheerness. Now I am obliged to add the fact, impossible to make up, that the offices of Southern Water intend to protect this grimy, insignificant locale by raising the flood wall even higher in front of this row of houses. Preceding this undertaking must necessarily come the removal of the existing embankment with all its garages, storerooms, and the concrete wall on top, that is, a to and fro of heavy machinery from excavators to the wading crane with its fat cement noggin. As a result, Southern Water has sent representatives of a sworn surveyor’s firm into every house to determine and record its architectural condition in anticipation of the claims they expect from residents as a consequence of the demolition and reconstruction. In other words, we have to reckon with the chance of collapsing walls, likewise of cracking windows. I mention all this in no way expecting that it will make me feel better to complain (a hypothesis all too amply disproven), but merely to discourage you for a time, say two years or so, from asking how I’m doing. You will know the answer already: Aggrieved.” &nbsp;<br>
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2418— Uwe Johnson, letter to Burgel Zeeh, 26 August 1982<br>
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2424Built by Southern Water along the full length of Marine Parade in 1983-4, Sheerness’ new Sea Defence Wall was higher than 
2424its oredecessor, but it was not build without some aesthetic effort. The engineers recognised the difficulty of integrating a high concrete rampart with the 19th century buildings that would be facing it from across the street. They consequently hired the architectural firm of Garnham Wright Associates, to design a “rusticated” surface that might help their colossal barrier settle into the increasingly flood-prone town.<br>
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2433The trade journal <i>Cement and Concrete Quarterly</i> celebrated Garnham Wright’s design, commending the playfulness with which the architect proposed a seaside form of English pop art. Johnson, however, hated it. A few months before he died, in February 1984, he told his artist neighbour, Martin Aynscomb Harris, that the still unfinished “rusticated” and graffiti-resisting rampart reminded him of the works of Hitler’s preferred architect, Albert Speer.<br>
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2467	<div grid-col="10" grid-pad="0"><h2><a href="The-Sea-View-Has-Me-Again" rel="history">More about the project</a> ︎︎︎<br>
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