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Do Seagulls Screech In Cleethorpes?
Whenever I look back at the photos I took in Cleethorpes in the 1980s, I am reminded of the trauma caused by the gradual loss of my hearing during that decade. For whatever reason, I seemed to be drawn to open spaces, to that hinterland between land and sea where vision was king and hearing didn’t matter. No doubt the seagulls screech in Cleethorpes, but I never heard them.
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Spring And All Souls
The panel which I featured a couple of days ago, showing Edward Akroyd laying the foundation stone for All Souls’ Church, is nothing compared to the rather grand bronze statue of Colonel…
The Girl With The Throwaway Glance
19th century photography is photography of the constrained: studio photography of fixed poses, fixed smiles and fixed emotions. The twentieth century brought cheaper cameras and that meant photography of the people by…
Tired Souls
Right next to the Grade 1 listed All Souls’ Church in Halifax, there is a statue of the Halifax mill-owner, social reformer, Member of Parliament and church-builder, Edward Akroyd. On…
Courage Brewing
This was Courage’s Anchor Brewhouse, which was next to Tower Bridge in London, back in the 1970s. When I took the photograph, breweries were still big and located in the…
Droning On
These days you would just launch a drone, but back in the 1980s we didn’t have drones (probably a good things seeing what else drones can do). If you wanted…
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