Godwin Archive: Geographical Prints of Kent - the construction of the Channel Tunnel. Photographer(s): Godwin, Fay
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Photographs connected with the Campaign to Protect Rural England, many of which are part of the CPRE’s ‘Tomorrow’ series of photographs. The first 29 prints were taken in 1991 and are of the Channel Tunnel development and the building of the new A20, they were placed in a sleeve and marked 'Chan...
[The building of the A20, Channel Tunnel.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Landscape Photography In the mid-distance, a digger is in the process of placing earth from the recently excavated track into the back of a truck; a second truck drives away. A row of makeshift construction buildings run along the skyline.
[The new A20 as double-decker bus goes by.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Landscape Photography Similar to the previous print apart from a white bus and small car passing along the road nearby; the picture is taken from a high vantage point by the edge of an underpass.
The new A20 for Channel Tunnel, Dover, 1991. Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Landscape Photography Taken from a field that has several grazing horses, two white minibuses drive past and there is a view of the recently excavated land and construction buildings on the skyline. Print 3 is inscribed with: ‘182W x 120mm PS SEPT / GOD2A/ PAGE 347’.
[The excavation of the A20 for Channel Tunnel.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Landscape Photography A field with several grazing horses is in the foreground with the construction site, digger, truck and tractor in the distance.
Genre: Landscape Photography Taken from the edge of the cliff with a railway track at its base and the Channel Tunnel construction site jutting out to sea; it is interesting to compare it with the photograph taken from the same position ten years earlier and which appears on page 126 of 'The Sa...
[Channel Tunnel Works at Hythe.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Landscape Photography View taken from the top of a hill looking down to the extensive construction below; a goods train emerges from the tunnel. Very similar to the image published on page 136 of 'The Edge of The Land' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1995). Prints 7 and 8 are inscribed with ‘2½’...
[Street Lamp and Van at the Channel Tunnel Works.] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Landscape Photography A white van is parked by a wire fence that runs along a cement track; a street lamp with a double bend sign has been knocked over; the shadow of a traffic light pole falls across the road. Beyond the fence there is a tractor and digger.
[The building of the A20?] Photographer: Godwin, Fay
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Genre: Landscape Photography Taken from a grass incline, the view looks across to a construction site; there are various trucks and lorries and construction buildings are on the skyline.