The bleak beauty of Dungeness
A summer afternoon in the most southerly point in Kent
Photos and report by Mike Slocombe, July 2006
Dungeness photos (part two)
![Dungeness, photos taken around the windswept village of Dungeness, Romney Marsh, on the south coast of Kent, England](images/dungeness-18.jpg)
This was most odd - right in the middle of an empty patch of shingle was this massive collection of British Telecom manhole covers!
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Fisherman's hut.
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Another view of the hut.
![Dungeness, photos taken around the windswept village of Dungeness, Romney Marsh, on the south coast of Kent, England](images/dungeness-21.jpg) Rusting winding gear which was presumably used to drag fishing boats up over the shingle.
![Dungeness, photos taken around Dungeness, Romney Marsh, on the south coast of Kent, England](images/dungeness-22.jpg) Wooden boat and hut.
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Green hut with fishing net.
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Boat and old narrow gauge railway line, used to haul the fish up to the road.
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Decorated garden.
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Ness Cottage.
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Prospect Cottage, the former home of artist and film director Derek Jarman.
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One side of the black-painted cottage bears the words of a poem written in wooden lettering.
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Tin shed.
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Scattered huts on the horizon.
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Old fresh fish shop.
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Meet W Fagg of Lydd Lodge!
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Cottage in poor repair.
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