A postcard From Lovers Leap: landscape, legend and the picture postcard [abstract only]

There are many locations around Britain and beyond bearing the name “Lovers’ Leap” from the banal to the dramatic and the well-known to the obscure. Often part of tourist itineraries such locations are usually associated with tragic tales of unrequited love and attempted suicide. I was recently surprised to discover one such site less than half a mile from my home of 26 years close by to the road I drive down most days. This discovery came by way of an old postcard and led to an investigation of this location; the legend after which it was named; and the visual representation of this overlooked and forgotten gem of the Peak District Landscape through early C20th photographic postcards and other vernacular visual culture and memorabilia.

An investigation of the representation of Buxton's forgoten beauty spot - Lovers Leap - in both visual art and vernacular materia culture.