Jim Easterbrook's photos

Ivy Scar rock. The rock is younger than the surrounding (very old) rocks, suggesting it was formed in a later volcanic eruption.

Sarah on one of the easier paths.

The view from our hotel bedroom window, dominated by Great Malvern Priory church.

My mother had a knitting machine that could make two-colour patterns controlled by punch cards. I thought it would be fun to have a jersey with a Hilbert space filling curve on it, but mum pointed out that the horizontal runs would leave long loops of wool on the reverse. The machine had a second mode which its manual didn't explain properly, and the book she had bought to accompany the machine wasn't much better. I worked out that it was inverting the colour choice in a quincuncial pattern, and was able to make a punch card that looked nothing like the resulting Hilbert curve pattern. The reverse has no loops of wool, and no strong pattern. The jersey lasted several years before moths got to it. I took this picture shortly before putting it in the recycling.

The remains of lineside fires between Ongar and North Weald.

Firefighter and members of the DMU train crew tackling lineside fires between Ongar and North Weald caused by the previous steam service.

Firefighter and members of the DMU train crew tackling lineside fires between Ongar and North Weald caused by the previous steam service.

Firefighter and members of the DMU train crew tackling lineside fires between Ongar and North Weald caused by the previous steam service.

One of the two dustbins of water loaded at Ongar.

Firefighter preparing for the return journey from Ongar to North Weald.

Members of the DMU train crew tackling lineside fires between North Weald and Ongar caused by the previous steam service.

Lineside fires between North Weald and Ongar caused by the previous steam service.

Members of the DMU train crew tackling lineside fires between North Weald and Ongar caused by the previous steam service.

Members of the DMU train crew tackling lineside fires between North Weald and Ongar caused by the previous steam service.

GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2T L.150 arriving at North Weald station.

North Weald signal box.

Sarah chatting to the driver of the 2 car Diesel multiple unit train at North Weald station.