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Artificial Towers
I always thought that the M1 going over Tinsley Viaduct in Sheffield, with those majestic cooling towers in the background, made a good photo, and I photographed it again and again in the 1980s. Then they went and demolished the cooling towers. You could still take the photo today, I suppose, but you would have to ask AI to complete the image by inserting two artificial towers.
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Officer Of The Watch
Today’s image comes from an album of 1920s photographs I acquired last year. The photographs seem to be German in origin – the captions are certainly in German – and they must…
Sepia Elland
I took this photograph of the lower Calder Valley near Elland back in the early 1980s. There is no scientific reason why digital photographs should turn sepia with age, and such a…
Bleached-Out Brid
Bleached-out sand and shadows as black as Whitby jet. I can still remember spotting this view in Bridlington over fifty years ago and thinking, “That would make a good photo!” It did…
Merry Gone Round
This is the children’s merry-go-round outside Marks and Spencer’s in Halifax. The rain was falling and the scene was sad, so I thought it could do with a little cheering…
Spires And Steel
I spent most of the 1980s living in Sheffield. The decade and the location are irredeemably linked in my mind: when I think of the 1980s, I think of the…
Mill In Lee Mount
The caption I have for this photograph simply says “Mill In Lee Mount”. The mill was obviously in a bad state when I took this photograph over 50 years ago,…
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