Mossy raiment, Chee Dale

The fabulous former railway station at Tunbridge Wells West, designed by Charles Henry Driver and built in 1866.

Three buildings by Charles Henry Driver in Dorking, all completed in 1872: a school, shop and the town hall.

A splendid couple of days exploring the work of Victorian architect Charles Henry Driver in Surrey and Kent. First up, this is Leatherhead railway station, completed in 1867.

Snow-dusted Pen y Fan from Hay Bluff

Paraglider, Hay Bluff, Black Mountains

Three tiny chimneys and acres of glass: Manchester from Hulme park.

View of Manchester's 'world-class' skyscraper district from St George's Park, Cornbrook

Manchester's new religion

Hilbre Island, a New Red Sandstone outcrop and tidal island in the Dee estuary. A wonderful place to walk to at low tide in crisp winter sun.

The third sewage pumping station built at Abbey Mills, East London, from 1910 to 1914, featuring an almost ecclesiastical interior with its fabulous creamy and russety patinas. I imagine a future conversion into a stupendous swimming pool.

Ornamental cast iron in the interior the Abbey Mills Pumping Station, recently re-painted to match its original colours of the 1860s

The stunning interior of the Abbey Mills Pumping Station, a veritable cathedral of sewage, completed in 1868 and designed by Charles Henry Driver and Joseph Bazalgette

A video of yesterday's magical excursion to a frozen Kinder Downfall

This afternoon I snuck in behind a frozen waterfall: Kinder Downfall in the Peak District

A beautiful mini-copse of silver birch trees growing on an island in the Birch Vale reservoir

Special product, Cemex Dove Holes Quarry

Four flats and a few more beyond, Manchester

I'm looking for decent sources on ghosts and haunting/mind and matter. Something more academic in nature than the Uncanny stuff but not nonsensical or impenetrable (eg. Derrida). Any pointers gratefully received!

Light painting itself on Manchester's canals

Four views of Manchester's new towers in the spectacular polar light this afternoon

A glimpse of Lepus timidus on Bleaklow

Full moon rising over gritstone on Bleaklow, Peak District

White car and Yewbarrow, Wasdale

Glorious Wastwater under a cloud-streaked sky

Little Hell Gate on Great Gable, from afar and up close. One of the hardest walks I've ever done.

Sheep and Scafells from Yewbarrow

A pair of industrial objects seen from Frodsham marsh

Long-exposure shot under the M56 motorway, Frodsham

Weston Point chemical works from Frodsham marsh

The view from the Silver Jubilee Bridge, Runcorn - not a place for those who suffer from vertigo

This year's reading, moving from the Peak District to hauntings via a smidgen of quantum physics

My new, and last, painting of the year: 'Henge'

Quite possibly the creepiest Christmas window display I've ever seen: Boyes in Scarborough

Scarborough reflections

Sleeping seal near Ravenscar

When Scarborough's Grand Hotel was opened in 1867, it was the largest of its kind in Europe. It's still a magnificent building, testament to Victorian confidence in the future, but people I met told me it's no longer a great place to stay.

A glorious morning on Scarborough beach before the haar rolled in

A really special couple of days exploring Scarborough. This is the impossibly picturesque village of Robin Hood's Bay, which shows that high density living can be achieved with something other than skyscrapers.

Who needs fireworks when you have light and water: Merchants Quay, Salford

Blade Runner vibes, Bridgewater Canal, Manchester

The former pigeon tower at the top of Rivington Terraced Gardens, looking very gothic in the darkness

Nightfall on Rivington Pike

A stunning photograph of the installation of the ironwork of London's Abbey Mills Pumping Station in 1867. Found in the archives in Bolton.

Manchester's winter rain and gloom produces its own distinctive kind of beauty

Stairwell, Barbican

Traffic lights reflected on chrome pillars, Bishopsgate

Sheffield surfaces

Lunar sun between the ramparts of the Iron-Age fort on Mam Tor

Exceptional contrasts on the Great Ridge today: first the view east towards Back Tor, then west to Mam Tor