Colin Howey
@colinhowey.bsky.social
Once upon a time birds would land on a gentle little boy. Then life intervened and the boy hid behind a blizzard of fists and rage. He thought he'd be safe back there - but it was a lonely, desolate space. Now, I aspire to be a Gentle Man...
After a long break from publishing anything on my heritage-inspired blog, here is a piece about Kenninghall Church, south Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
After a long break from publishing anything on my heritage-inspired blog, here is a piece about Kenninghall Church, south Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Itteringham, St Mary, north Norfolk
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Itteringham, St Mary, north Norfolk
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Still Life moment at the Wield & Downland Living Museum: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #mindfulness #photography #heritage #wellbeing
Weald & Downland Living Museum, Sussex
Still Life
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September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Still Life moment at the Wield & Downland Living Museum: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #mindfulness #photography #heritage #wellbeing
Visiting South Elmham Old Minster, Suffolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #heritage #history #suffolk #historiclandscape
South Elmham Old Minster, Suffolk
An Extraordinary Monument
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September 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Visiting South Elmham Old Minster, Suffolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #heritage #history #suffolk #historiclandscape
Stratton Strawless, St Margaret, Norfolk - one to return to time and time again...
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Stratton Strawless, St Margaret
Stratton Strawless, St Margaret, north Norfolk is a church I return to more often than any other.
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August 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Stratton Strawless, St Margaret, Norfolk - one to return to time and time again...
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Nowadays, this is how I choose to get high:
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Norwich Castle Museum Battlements
Seeing for yourself
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August 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Nowadays, this is how I choose to get high:
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My latest blog post focuses on Fring Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Fring, All Saints, Norfolk
Cradle to grave
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August 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My latest blog post focuses on Fring Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Focusing in on some 17thC embroidery within Strangers' Hall Museum, Norwich
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Strangers' Hall Museum, Norwich
Perceptual horizons and retrospection
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August 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Focusing in on some 17thC embroidery within Strangers' Hall Museum, Norwich
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There is something very special about a well-tended urban walled garden. Here is a post about the enchanting green 'oasis' at Strangers' Hall, Norwich: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #gardens #wellbeing #museums
Strangers' Hall Museum
The Serenity of an Urban Walled Garden
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August 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
There is something very special about a well-tended urban walled garden. Here is a post about the enchanting green 'oasis' at Strangers' Hall, Norwich: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #gardens #wellbeing #museums
Here are some of my thoughts about the newly refurbished Norwich Castle Keep: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Norwich Castle Keep Re-opening
A Royal Palace Re-born
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August 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Here are some of my thoughts about the newly refurbished Norwich Castle Keep: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
A short post about a window that left me wide-eyed with wonder at Briningham, St Maurice, Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Briningham, St Maurice, Norfolk
A Window Full of Wonder
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July 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A short post about a window that left me wide-eyed with wonder at Briningham, St Maurice, Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Well, isn't this a shimmering beauty of a late medieval porch at Pulham St Mary, St Mary, south Norfolk
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well, isn't this a shimmering beauty of a late medieval porch at Pulham St Mary, St Mary, south Norfolk
Momento mori skulls on the early 17thC Suckling family monuments within St Andrew's Church, Norwich
July 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Momento mori skulls on the early 17thC Suckling family monuments within St Andrew's Church, Norwich
Light! East Mersea, Essex, St Edmund
July 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Light! East Mersea, Essex, St Edmund
New post on my 'Fallible Flâneur' blog inspired by a visit to Upwell Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #angels #churches #warmwelcomes
Upwell, St Peter, Norfolk
Eye-to-Eye with Angels
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July 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
New post on my 'Fallible Flâneur' blog inspired by a visit to Upwell Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #angels #churches #warmwelcomes
Some of the outstanding Victorian stained glass at Brome, St Mary, Suffolk #brome #suffolk #churches #stainedglass
June 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Some of the outstanding Victorian stained glass at Brome, St Mary, Suffolk #brome #suffolk #churches #stainedglass