Dungeness | Curious Coast

Main street
making tracks
sculpture ?
fishing shack
ready for action
clinker
abandoned
deserted
on the shingle
in memorium
Rebecca
Romeo Xray
Red & Blue & Rope
RX 410
needs work
Three in a boat
workshop
framework
Mr Jarman's house
Mr Jarman's garden
yellow broom
gravel extraction
good luck
local fish
light and power
outside the gallery
mobile home
UKIP HQ
more than you can afford

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The offbeat, kiss-me-quick atmosphere of the East Anglian and Kent seaside and coast fascinates photographer, Trevor Clapp and watercolorist, Tim Baynes. This website records some of their trips to these extraordinary places.

The Travels with My Architect series continues into 2015 with Trevor and I driving to the Kent coast, to Dungeness, Britain’s only desert. Trevor’s wife Jane (architect and gardener) joined primarily to see Derek Jarman’s cottage.

It was Jarman’s cottage that started a movement of some 500,000 people who annually now come to this out of the way, incredibly flat landscape with its two power stations. And last year, so Dungeness Ranger Owen, told us there were 143 film or photo-shoots taking advantage of shingle beach, rusting boat winches and close to collapsing fishing huts.

This is the stuff of art. Some of the houses that line the single road are now galleries and those with taste and sensitivity have breathed on their single-storey homes.

Grey skies, a stiff breeze made for the perfect weather for this place, which is not without its amenities. Desperate to get out of the wind we went to the Britannia Inn for an excellent morning coffee and a warm welcome from the Landlord and his Missus. Quite the cleanest pub on the planet and large (to accommodate the Summer influx!)

After that and still in the shadow of the huge Victorian lighthouse, we visited gallery comprising three small huts converted to house a wonderful collection of woodcuts and found objects and post cards. I spied a copy of Pebbles on the Beach (Faber &Faber paperback) and made a note to get a copy.

Lunch. Cod and Chips, Jane had the Skate, Trevor the Haddock (they swapped half-way through) as I ploughed through my delicious plateful at The Pilot. The place was full of people like us enjoying lunch and the warmth and welcome. If you like fish and chips, this is the place for you.