Shillingstone Gallery

Shillingstone Station: Gallery

Here is a selection of photos taken at locations which are featured in the novel.

I took them in July 2015 and so a little imagination is needed to see them in the story’s original light (some back in 1960, some in the darkness of night, others in brighter summer sunshine, several with a different season’s vegetation), but the essence of place has not tangibly changed at all.

SPOILER ALERT! It’s probably best not to read the captions until you’ve read the novel!

* Click on a picture for an enlarged view

Mary Abbott, the farm manager’s daughter, loved this spot at Lamb House Bridge, under the heavy brick railway arch, hooded by its curved, crusted ceiling (Part I., Chapter 2)

“It’ll be as muddy as fuck down that there embankment,” he protested, but she was already striding through a gap in the hedge and on into the shadows, her skirt swishing against the long grass. (I.,2)