Nigel Rumsey

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  • Gravesham: A Day in the Life

    On Saturday, 1st June, anyone with a camera (or a phone) was invited to take part in Gravesham’s first Day in the Life shoot, part of the Gravesham Fringe Festival. The aim is to make it an annual event documenting the changes in the borough from year to year. I took portraits of shopkeepers in…

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  • Gravesend Civic Centre & Woodville Theatre

    One of my favourite buildings in Gravesend is the Borough Council Civic Centre and Woodville Theatre. Designed by renowned architect Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown construction started in 1964, and the building was opened on 15th November 1968.

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    I appreciate that I may be in the minority, but one of my favourite buildings in the borough, is the Borough Council Civic Centre and Woodville Theatre.

  • Theatre Photography: Aladdin

    The theatrical ‘get-in’ is a bit like moving house. You arrive at your new home early in the morning with all your worldly possessions piled in the back of a van. There’s furniture to be unloaded, lights to be put up, and the sound system to be installed. Inevitably, something doesn’t quite fit and you…

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  • The final days at Tri The Bike Shop

    A bike shop has traded from this site in Windmill Street for some 60 years. However, at the end of November Tri The Bike Shop will put up its shutters for the last time. I spent the morning with manager Leo Brown (not shown), Stuart Britten and James Medhurst.

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  • Vaisakhi Celebrations 2022

    Some images from Gravesend’s Vaisakhi celebration. This annual celebration of the spring harvest in Northern India is centred around the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara.

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  • The Table: Feeding the Homeless through a Pandemic

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    Tony and Vicki Harris have been on a journey that would change their lives, seeing Tony giving away all their money and most of his clothes. It would lead them to start a group that would feed up to 50 people, six nights a week, during the height of the pandemic.

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  • The Table: Feeding the Homeless through a Pandemic

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    Tony and Vicki Harris have been on a journey that would change their lives, seeing Tony giving away all their money and most of his clothes. It would lead them to start a group that would feed up to 50 people, six nights a week, during the height of the pandemic.

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    nigel.rumsey

  • Looking forward to Gravesend’s pubs reopening?

    Are you looking forward to pubs reopening? Here’s what is hoped will happen.On April 12 – Restaurants and pub gardens will be allowed to serve customers sitting outdoors – including alcohol.

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  • The New COVID Normal

    We’re told we are a living through the strangest of times. Yet, it’s surprising how quickly sights that a few months ago would have seemed entirely alien become ordinary. At some point, these things will become history, so it seems only fitting to record some of them.

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  • Pantomime: more than just another show

    This production of Rapunzel could be just another casualty of a dreadful pandemic that continues to kill thousands worldwide. Maybe it’s nothing more than that.

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  • Mixing Colours: Video Submission

    Roger Eno and Brian Eno invited submissions of single-shot videos to accompany the tracks on their latest album Mixing Colours. I chose ‘Iris’, a restful piano piece. I shot my submission very simply on my iPhone, on a small bridge over the Thames and Medway Canal, a couple of miles from my home. This is…

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  • C-19 Stories: The Darnley Pharmacy

    The Darnley Pharmacy now dispenses prescriptions from a window. This saves patients needing to enter the shop, reducing the risk to them and the staff.

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