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All that remains

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All that remains

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 185

The ruins of St Benet's Abbey on the banks of the River Bure.

This is an amazing set of ruins. Not only are parts of the abbey still there, but there's also the remains of a wind pump that was built inside the ruins themselves.

Even better than that is the graffiti, carved into the stone. The recent stuff is nothing special - pen-knive scratchings on the soft brickwork of the pump tower - but into the abbey ruins, beautifully chiselled into the old stones, are things like "C.T. Alcock, 1902" and "W.B, 1912." The oldest one I found said, simply, "1895."

So many years of history, all in one place.

What man built to bridge nature's creation

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What man built to bridge nature's creation

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 141

The overpass that runs across Vyšehrad in Prague. Actually, it's not technically across Vyšehrad, which is about a half kilometre to the west of the overpass, but it was the nearest placename I could find.

Infrequently used, I fear

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Infrequently used, I fear

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 137

The Morecambe and Heysham yacht club racing office at Morecambe. I wonder how often it gets used.

High on a hill there was a station

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High on a hill there was a station

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 129

The station building at Ribblehead, on the Settle to Carlisle line.

A long, slow collapse

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A long, slow collapse

Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 112

A collapsing cottage on the road between Ingleton and Hawes.

I would have liked to get closer to this so that I could have worked with some more extreme angles. Unfortunately a large, barbed-wire fence was in the way and I couldn't find a way over it.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working remembering how to write before embarking on a second. In the meantime, he photographs things, since it's easier not to have to make the world up in his head all of the time.

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