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Friday, 16 October 2020

Flashback 2010 - Derek Jarman's Garden, Dungeness


These photos were taken in 2010. I thought I had already posted a blog, but for some reason I did not. 
A lot of the items shown in the photos below are no longer in the garden of Prospect Cottage, which to me, is a great shame, as I am sure they were the reason Derek Jarman's garden was so famous. 


The Writing on the Wall.
The words are from a poem by John Donne, called 'The Sun Rising'


The back of the cottage



Everywhere you looked back in 2010 there was something interesting to look at :)


All sorts of amazing items





A fish skeleton made from driftwood.


A rocket


A  ship


We think this represents a wishing well, with the pennies and fish in it?


Sailing boats


This shows some of the 'cargo' of the boat shown below :)


Boat with cargo.


Stone plaques dotted round the garden





Play on words


An insect of some sort


Crufts :)


An owl face with beak and eyes made up of other owls.



Sea glass



Another Owl :)


Looks a bit like a dinosaur?


Rows of bottles on a plank......


Each bottle had a face on it :)



The Time Clock, this was one of my favourites, there are a few close ups a few photos down!




The Time Clock again, every slate has quotes about Time on them :)


Amazing :)



So many sayings, it must have taken a long time to make.



Read the label!!!! LOL


The Millenium Dome, complete with a bug inside. This refers to the fact that in 1999, it was thought that there might be a Millenium Bug which was going to take down all the computer systems at the start of the year 2000. Luckily it didn't happen.




Sea glass 


Messages in bottles :)







As I said above it is a great shame that most of these items have now disappeared, there are a few bits still in the garden, but I am so pleased that we saw the garden when we did. Maybe sometime in the future some of the items might re-appear, but it seems that they never were meant to be permanent, simply Derek Jarman enjoying using things he found near his home.

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