Photographing Scotland’s Disused Hospitals With 35mm Film
We recently embarked on a roadtrip across Scotland, focused on abandoned asylums and other hospitals. We photographed a total of eight, six of those being …
A Guide to Second World War Defences
Do you know your Tett Turret from your Dragons Teeth? We’ve covered over 180 historic locations (and counting!) on the website, most of which are …
Two Tree Island Heritage Guide
Two Tree Island was reclaimed from the Thames in the late 1700’s and was used as farmland until 1910 when a sewage works was constructed …
GUIDE: Royal Observation Corps Posts
Over a thousand nuclear observation posts were built after the Second World War, but what actually are they? Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Monitoring Posts were …
A History of Mental Asylums
Please note: Some of the terms used in this report are used in a historical context and reflect people’s attitudes and language at the time …
Archaeological Dig with AGES Society
It’s BTP Liam here to tell you about AGES Archaeological Society and the adventure that we had when we joined them this August. Based in …
Photography
Photography is of course a key part of what we do at Beyond the Point. Without cameras, we wouldn’t be able to capture images of …
BTP Finds Cabinet
Welcome to Beyond the Point’s find cabinet – a variety of ancient artefacts from across the Canvey Island mudflats to an Italian cove at the …
Photo Editing
Basic Photo Enhancing ‘Editing photographs’. A phrase which to many come to mind as a cheat, or a way of capturing something far more dramatic …
Video Post-Production
Top Tips Use bins. Bins, otherwise known as folders, can really speed up your editing by creating an organised work space. Do this both inside of …