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Earlier
We have friends coming to visit this week – friends of over five decades – who have come to love our little bit of Yorkshire. We will see the sights, revisit familiar places and note the changes, and we will probably take photographs. Here’s one I took earlier.
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Halifax Tram Strike
One rainy Sunday evening in July 1906, the Number 94 tram from Shelf to Halifax ran out of control while coming down New Bank, overturned, and slid over North Bridge. Two passengers…
Mainlining Memories
This photo is the result of a random dip into my archives. I took it forty years ago during a visit to Athens. I seem to recall that we stopped at the…
Deep History
For a long time, this was indexed under “unknown location” in my negative files, but a recent Google search allowed me to identify it as the former Hanley Deep Pit…
Escaping The Mill
The telegraph poles provide the date stamp for this photograph of a mill fire escape in Halifax. At some point over the fifty-six years since I took it, I seem…
Sheffield Days
This photograph dates back to my Sheffield days in the 1980s – days of grey and white and miners’ strikes. I’d probably just got off the bus, and as I…
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