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Photographic History
This photograph came to me from my Great Uncle, Fowler Beanland, who, during the First World War, was a foreman at a munitions factory in Keighley. The photo shows fifteen female munitions workers – just a small proportion of the many hundreds who worked for Longbottom and Farrar’s, which was, at the time, part of the British Shell Factory. Photographic history at its best.
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Scale And Emptiness In Downtown Stoke
When I look back at these old photographs of mine – I took this picture of a street in Stoke-on-Trent some fifty-five years ago – it is the scale that seems to…
Yorkshire Imperialism
I don’t know which hillside it was. I remember taking the photograph whilst on the Settle to Carlisle line, so there is just a chance that it might even by a Lancashire…
Five Girls And A Kodak
The Sepia Saturday theme this week is old photos of even older photographers, and searching through my extensive (if my wife reads this, I mean very small) collection, I found…
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