Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

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71 Balham High Road, Balham, SW12 9AP Travelling across Britain, Green transports the reader to these places as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. By exploring the lost causes and dead ends of history - places lost to natural phenomena, war and plague, economic shifts and technological progress - the precariousness of our own We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction and revisit their lingering remains later as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers and mavericks. Mon: closedTue: 10am-6pmWed: 10am-6pmThu: 10am-9pmFri: 10am-9pmSat: 10am-6pm Matthew Green excavates these lost settlements, telling the extraordinary tales of their demise. Britain's landscape is scarred with haunting and romantic remains; these shadowlands that were once filled with life are now just spectral echoes. Call us on: +442033020460 Whether evoking the Atlantis myth or Romantic ruins, an ancient Roman metropolis or the modern coastline, 'Shadowlands' peers through the cracks of history at Britain's secret landscape. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.