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Here are some still that I took during the install of the exhibition. I hope you can all make the preview on the 22nd of May at 6pm.

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Here is a film still, taken from Ecton Hill

Its a hard days work with a boat that doesn’t really float! Photo by Glen Stoker

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DrBird getting ready to lunch the boat! Photo by Glen Stoker!

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Windmill at Cannock Chase, touching the clouds and moving with its surroundings as it captures the oncoming explorer DrBird. Photo by Glen Stoker.

The sun’s rays part the clouds, warming the hillside. Birds begin to wheel and to sing around his head. The windmill marks the highest point for miles around; the clouds are so close that they can almost be touched.

Field Notes and Other Fictions by Anneka French, for the Exhibition Catalogue DrBird Conquering Clouds April 2015

It’s running away from me...Photo by Glen Stoker

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Its hard work to make a boat float when you make it into a land-mover and camera.

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Getting ready for the launch of the boat in the water. Photo by Glen Stoker

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John Fullwood’s Windmill courtesy of Wolverhampton Art Gallery

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Out take on a rainy day, 3 hours of rain and wind was to much for the windmill. Lucky it came at the end of the day.

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Filming at Cannock Chase with the boat and windmill, photo by Glen Stoker.

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A Coat Tent is born, a coat that acts like a survival shelter for the Dr Bird on his travels.

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“Windmill is turning #DrBird #windmill now the inside parts”

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Deep within Deep Ecton Mine, from the mid-1760s to early-1780s, there was at least one, and more probably two, underground canals used to bring copper and lead ores to shafts going up, from where they were taken up to surface for processing. The best-documented canal, at over 60m below river level, went to the northern end of the hill. Another, at river level, went westwards from where ore was brought up to the ‘dressing floors’ outside the entrance to the later Salts Level.

Dr Bird at the Dutchmans Entrance at Ecton Hill Copper Mine. Photo by Glen Stoker

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DrBird, at the the trig point at Ecton Hill in Staffordshire. With his self made Sexton and his Sunnto watch. Photo by Glen Stoker

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