Emma Telford; Photo credit: Ross Parry Agency Ltd (Leeds UK).
Poll: See which Norfolk landmark a woman has had tattooed on her leg and vote for your favourite.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
5:22 PM
A photographer passionate about Norfolk landmarks has had her favourite monument from the county etched on her forever.
Emma Telford with her Happisburgh Lighthouse tattoo; Photo credit: Ross Parry Agency Ltd (Leeds UK).Lighthouse-fanatic Emma Telford, 25, has visited 33 of the tall towers - travelling from Inverness to Cornwall - and when she found the 222-year-old working lighthouse at Happisburgh she took one look and fell in love.
So much so she decided to have a six-inch drawing of the lighthouse tattooed onto her calf.
Miss Telford, of Leeds, said: “It’s become a personal thing to me, so much so that when I visited Happisburgh in Norfolk I fell in love with the lighthouse, and decided I wanted to have it tattooed on me.
“I’d been thinking about it for a while but wanted to find the perfect scene. I’d been going to Norfolk since I was a kid but never really noticed the lighthouse before.
Emma Telford with her Happisburgh Lighthouse tattoo; Photo credit: Ross Parry Agency Ltd (Leeds UK).“So when I visited recently I was just struck by how beautiful the area looked.
“It’s a beautiful beach, a little secluded village with a traditional red and white striped lighthouse on the coast and I loved it.”
The full-colour lighthouse tattoo is six inches from her ankle, half-way up her calf.
She added: “I want to set the scene, put in the sea, the beach, show how beautiful it is. It’s a work-in-progress.”
Miss Telford has been back to Norfolk five times to see her favourite lighthouse, as well as visiting 32 others, travelling as far as Moray Firth in Inverness and visiting two light ships in the British Isles.
She first fell in love with lighthouses after a visit to Cornwall, at Trevose Head, about five years ago and since then has been researching lighthouses.
She said: “I like that they’re for safety, they’re a sort of guiding light.
“It’s quite a romantic idea actually.”
Luckily, Miss Telford’s 23-year-old baker boyfriend Ashley Gill does not mind sharing his girlfriend with her hobby, as they tour the country together.
He said: “I don’t really mind Emma being so into lighthouses – it doesn’t make me feel second-best.
“I’m really into castles and quite often when we visit a lighthouse there will be a castle in the area which I can see.”
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25 comments
Why would anyone want a tattoo of Gressenhall Museum dear list compiler? Are you trying to rub our nose in the poverty of our agricultural past or unaware that Gressenhall was built as the workhouse for the Mitford and Launditch Union? Maybe I will have one with great great granddad died here, which he did. There were enough workhouses in Norfolk to have more than one on each limb.
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Daisy Roots
Sunday, September 2, 2012
As for the daft list, why would anyone in Norfolk want Gressenhall Museum as a tattoo when we all know it as Beech House and before that the Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse. Why, we could have a whole set on each limb and front and back- Gressenhall, Rollesby Court House, Smallburgh,Northgate Hospital, St James Hospital-workhouses where our poor old ancestors were miserable.
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Daisy Roots
Sunday, September 2, 2012
I thought everyone knew about the Challenge Anneka TV programmed story where they made a big fuss about finding volunteers and painting up the lighthouse and then botched the job with the wrong paint so that it had to be redone soon after. I can't remember who paid for the re paint. So yes I thought BG was making a humorous local reference too-but that would go right over the heads of EDP staff who display little local knowledge beyond pandering to advertisers, second homer watering holes and their kids' private schools and who can't manage even to check their own archives.
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Daisy Roots
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Maybe I'm missing something, have some of BG's comments been removed? Because the comment left on here by BG is surely referring to the Challenge Anneka program, where she painted the lighthouse and the paint peeled off. I think heshe was being humorous...certainly not saying anything offensive about the girl in the (non) story!
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debsyn
Friday, August 31, 2012
Sam. I agree with you 100% however I do believe the majority of comments are actually aimed at either the article or the paper, not the individual. Conversely, if the person concerned had no desire to draw any attention to herself, and the expected response, why did she allow this to be published, or even go the paper in the first place? If you do not wish for publicity then be sensible enough not to expose yourself to public comment, quite simple really.
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Mr T
Friday, August 31, 2012
I just want to say I have known Emma since I was about 11, she is an incredibly talented, funny, intelligent and creative young woman. This brief snapshot into her life does nothing to inform you of who she is. I would like to say to anyone who feels compelled to leave a derogatory comment: Just because the internet affords you anonymity, that does not give you the right to bash someone else. The person you are commenting on is someone's friend and someone's daughter. No one laughs with you or thinks you're clever. Just keep your bile to yourself, no one wants to suffer it.
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Sam Willans
Thursday, August 30, 2012
The article is all too common of the EDP's output these days, and like the tattoo, a pale imitation of the original EDP.The choice of attractions in the list was to be expected-when was anyone last overwhelmed by an EDP reporter's display of initimate knowledge of the region.
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Daisy Roots
Thursday, August 30, 2012
BGs comment was perfectly valid. In my childhood it was mostly only sailors and fairground workers who were tattooed and it was regarded as rather common. It is of course a lifestyle choice, just as it is the choice of others to say yuk. Personally, it being Norfolk, I reckon we should go for woad style blue patterns, henna our hair and stick carving knives in our hub caps for a spin round the ring road.
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Daisy Roots
Thursday, August 30, 2012
My last comments were removed but could someone at the EDP please justify to the people who actually purchase the EDP, myself included, as to how such a stupid and rediculous non-story can be worthy of half a page including a full colour picture? Other articles worthy of note are just poked up the corner or a few lines, does the "journalist" who picked this story think we are all thick and interested in such trivia?
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Mr T
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Joyland Snails for me ....one on each limb preferably. I think they should be a listed monument. :)
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nr26
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Might help if they learned to spell 'Swaffham' - hey ho!
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Thoreauwasright
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
I don't think that the youg girl will appreciate the majority of the comments here. Nor do I think that she will agree with the 'poll' and some of the options. The Joyland Snails? that is a tad harsh. It's her choice. Not my cup of tea, but it's nothing to do with me. Yes there are better tattoos out there, but the young woman clearly wanted this piece. Cut her some slack ladies and gentlemen. Regards, Whiley.
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Whiley Boy
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Have a 'go' at the EDP for their choice of story but please...........don't have a go at an individual for making her own choices and living her life her way. Seems to be all too common in Norfolk to criticise individuals when they are causing no harm to anyone.
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micklynn
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
I agree with "Wheezey" that it's herhis choice to have tattoos if she so wishes. However, I employ a team of about 30 people in a customer services environment and it's my choice to not employ anyone with visible tattoos or body piercings (other than earlobes)
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Citizen of EUSSR
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
to the narrow minded BG.... your comments are immature on a grand scale! Tattooing has been taking place for thousands of years. Why not open your mind and study a bit of history, it might actually do you some good!! If anybody chooses to get their ink removed then they should pay for it themselves, i enjoy my art and am happy enough to keep it, i have been employed for many years and my bosses have never complained, nor have we lost custom due to my art. if anyone is rude enough to take a swipe at someone else's choices, they usually hide behind forums like this..... you dont have like everyone else's life choices, ink is not for you, thats fine.... but manners and intelligence are not something you aspire to either.
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Wheezey
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I'd love to see her get Southwold Pier tattooed on the other leg..... after the Costa saga, it would be the final straw for most of the locals!
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Norfolk and Good
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Reminds me of the words of the song (Shipwrecked) that the Shantymen sing "I saw the map of Scotland tattooed upon her chest, and further down, to my surprise, I saw the spot where Nelson lost his eye!"
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julygirl
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
If she got Anneka Rice to do it, (like she did the real thing some years back), then it should eventually peel off.
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BG
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Why on earth is this the lead story, just what is the EDP comming to. Dumbed down or not.
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Johnny Norfolk
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I met a girl once from Denmark, big girl had a tattoo of her phone number and nationality on her shoulder
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Terry Tibbs
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I hope that this fad for tattoos dies a natural death.
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Disgusted of Norwich South
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
If she wants a phallic symbol on her leg, it's up to her. Won't look so good when she's 60.
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samphirelover
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
A very un arty tattoo in a very boring location. Yawn........
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Paul Morley
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Her boyfriend said: “I don’t really mind Emma being so into lighthouses – it doesn’t make me feel second-best" Yeah, until she buys a 'toy' one and he's obsolete ;)
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TheYetiWakes
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
im getting the forum library on my back.and all the shelves down each limb.....
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bookworm
Tuesday, August 28, 2012