We recently embarked on a roadtrip across Scotland, focused on abandoned asylums and other hospitals. We photographed a total of eight, six of those being former asylums. The variations and similarities in their architecture was most interesting, with changes to asylum design being apparent. This varied from the streamlined design of the Georgian Royal Murray…
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Do you know your Tett Turret from your Dragons Teeth? We’ve covered over 180 historic locations (and counting!) on the website, most of which are military related so we’ve devised this guide to explain all manner of World War Two Defences. Dragons teeth, or pimples or anti-tank traps, all provide the same purpose. They were…
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Two Tree Island was reclaimed from the Thames in the late 1700’s and was used as farmland until 1910 when a sewage works was constructed on part of the site. These sewage works were used for the majority of the 20th century. During the North Sea Floods of 1953 two of the sewage workers had…
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Over a thousand nuclear observation posts were built after the Second World War, but what actually are they? Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Monitoring Posts were underground monitoring stations built for volunteers to monitor the effects of a nuclear blast. The first prototype was built in Surrey in 1956 and was used for a trial to…
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Please note: Some of the terms used in this report are used in a historical context and reflect people’s attitudes and language at the time and may now be considered derogatory or offensive. As part of our coverage of Severalls Hospital, a former asylum in Colchester, we’re taking a look back at the history of…
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It’s BTP Liam here to tell you about AGES Archaeological Society and the adventure that we had when we joined them this August. Based in Hadleigh and with links with the Thundersley and Hadleigh Community Archive, AGES is a society which seeks to survey what lies from the lives and times of civilisations hundreds of…
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Photography is of course a key part of what we do at Beyond the Point. Without cameras, we wouldn’t be able to capture images of the historic places we visit so that we can share them with you online and keep a record of these places for the people of the future to marvel at….
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Welcome to Beyond the Point’s find cabinet – a variety of ancient artefacts from across the Canvey Island mudflats to an Italian cove at the bottom of a castle! Finds give us intriguing insights into what life was like many years ago and has proved the theories of many historians both right and wrong, changing…
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Basic Photo Enhancing ‘Editing photographs’. A phrase which to many come to mind as a cheat, or a way of capturing something far more dramatic than what is really there. Yes, this is sometimes the case, as with HDR seen below for example, but heavy editing can be a great way to evoke a certain…
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Top Tips Use bins. Bins, otherwise known as folders, can really speed up your editing by creating an organised work space. Do this both inside of your editing and wherever you save the clips to on your computer. BACKUP! This is probably one of the most important tips. Always always backup your files and projects. Once they…
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