In the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Romney Marsh was home to thousands of sheep and to the shepherds - known as Lookers - whose lonely job it was to look after them.

Nigel P Crick's stunning, atmospheric photographs capture the isolation of the lookers' existence: tending to numerous huge flocks of sheep over a vast area meant that they ahd to spend long periods away from home, and these small, sparse, brick-built huts provided their only shelter.

The marsh is now dotted with these ruined huts, with less than 20 remaining from more than 300 in the area's heyday. Nigel has searched for and photographed all the remaining Lookers huts, providing a poignant record of what were once vital shelters before these too fall to ruin.

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