Nick Pepper

@thenickpepper.bsky.social

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PhD, late 20th / early 21st century national parks history, Hadrian's Wall Wetlands Landscape Recovery engagement officer, organiser of Allen Valleys Folk Festival. All views my own.

Cows looking over a wall suspiciously
Otter leaping out of view
Wylam Bridge in black and white
An otter leaping out of frame
An adult and juvenile coot mirroring behaviours with a bit of grooming at Washington Wetlands.
Multiple hares boxing near Warden Hill spring 2025 near Hexham
"the bin men left a nice mess on Stanley crescent a bag of poo that fell out the bin and didn't clean it up now it's spreading up the streets" People of Prudhoe poetry
Cows on a hazy autumn evening in the Allen Valleys
Staging for Allen Valleys Folk Festival
Still Punk graffiti with gulls
Frankie Archer is coming back to Allendale in October. Tickets from Gigantic
Herb Robert on a woodland floor
A pigeon in a room of Conwy Castle gazing wistfully out to sea with one eye, and suspiciously at me with the other.
A plaster lion in the Elizabethan townhouse Plas Mawr in Conwy
A page from The Kielder Project: A plan to meet the future published by Northumbrian Water as part of their PR drive to justify the huge cost of a project which was no longer needed by Teesside industry.
Compulsory photo of "my road" in snow
Two abandoned sofas by a field gate that I have been walking past for years.
Me and my little Patterdale terrier as she seeks to distract me from work.
Tumbledown outhouse in Allendale
The jacket of The Unknown Mayhew - a Pelican book sporting another iconic image - a Gustav Dore engraving of what I assume are dock workers.
The Blackett Level - an unfinished adit designed to drain north Pennine lead mines. A grille covers the entrance and next to it is a ruined pump house.
Johnny Flynn performing with a full moon illuminated behind him