Shingle Street

What's in a place? You'd be surprised. Take Shingle Street. It's remote – in fact, it's one of the remotest villages in England, sitting on the loneliest stretch of the Suffolk coast, a collection of just 29 dwellings behind a great long shingle bank ...

In the summer of 1992, following pressure from people keen to see what it said, a yellowing Ministry of Home Security dossier detailing the “Evacuation of civil population from the village of Shingle Street in east Suffolk” was released by the Government.

The tribute event for The Beach Kiosk Cafe, which was popular with visitors to Shingle Street, Hollesley in the 1960s and 70s, was held yesterday. There were ice creams, seaside games and good times – with a photo exhibition going back to 1880 ...

Long subject to inundation and increasingly despoiled by erosion, the Suffolk hamlet, Shingle Street, has an unexpected history of associated literary figures, among them Edward FitzGerald and W G Sebald. “The east stands for lost causes,” the latter ...

From the picturesque Shingle Street to the lively, seaside resort of Clacton, this part of East Anglia has a beach for every occasion. Here we share our top 10 - in no particular order. Jaywick. This area of the Essex coast is relatively untouched, and ...

The professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, revered journalist, novelist, and godfather of the “narrative non-fiction” genre confesses to feeling nervous about the publication of his new book. Shingle Street is a collection of poems, Blake ...