📍Loci: Finding New Worlds Through Lost Words
When I flip through the old OS maps of the valley chronologically, some of these names evaporate with the passing of time. It's a gradual dislocation of our deep-seated association with place.
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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 7 Aug 2026
I feel as though I’m in a kind of dystopian bubble of my own making - an aberration in the continuum, as though I’ve slipped into the square from another century, carrying some obsolete way of looking at the world.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 17 July 2026
When I get up close to some of the mills, I might as well be standing within the bounds of Fountains or Rievaulx - buildings that were themselves cogs in their own industrious machines devoted to wool.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 24 April 2026
I lost my dad in 2008 and I think that’s when it all started - I took his spirit out with me on my first forays into deep time; sharing with him my findings - as if he was taking part in an evolving life, a new man emerging from the chrysalis of breakdown and depression.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 26 Sep 2025
Your poets saw darkness here, and nothing more, but in the cerulean sky we are mirrors catching the sun.
The Pattern of Streets
Reading between the lines through the buildings and streets of Bury and Ramsbottom.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 30 August 2024
At Hopwood, where Byron’s feet had trod, lumpy clods of plaster had fallen, making their presence known beneath my soles - prickly protestations at the status quo.
📍Loci: Evocation of Place
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📍Loci: The Babbling Chronograph
Refined Reflections: The Best of Genius Loci