Tim Beckett

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Greetings!

This shows off my writing and phtography. Click on the images to be taken to the different sections.

I am writing a novel, Uranium City Return. Click on the left to see images of Uranium City, the almost abandoned town in northern Saskatchewan that is the heart of the novel.

I stayed on the Heygate Estate in south-east London for a year or so and kept a blog about the exprience: Live From the Heygate.

I’m in the middle of putting this site together. Soon I’ll have downloadable pdfs and more pictures, more stuff in general.

I also develop websites and screw around with code. For web development, go to my other site: Tim Beckett Web Development

Crossings: Edmonton

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I hadn’t been back to Edmonton in nearly 20 years, not since I’d passed through with my parents at age 15 on our way to Vancouver. I took the airport shuttle downtown to the bus station then checked in at the Grand Hotel across the street. The hotel looked rundown, but the wooden awning out [...]

‘Uranium City Return’

Hotel

At the end of the road, an airstrip appears, as unexpected as a landing pad for aliens. Instinctively, I look for the Eldorado Mine and the company town of Eldorado that stretched around the lake behind the airstrip and am startled to find nothing but hills and trees and a muddy black field. The plane [...]

Uranium City

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