Mary The Munitionette
Studio Postcard of Unknown Woman : The only clue to the identity of this woman is a dedication on the reverse, “From Mary”. The uniform she is wearing suggests that she was a munitions worker in World War I – one of the almost 1,000,000 women who went […]
Wilson And Clara Fieldhouse
Wilson and Clara Fieldhouse (1930s) Wilson and Clara were the parents of the ubiquitous Frank Fieldhouse, husband of my father’s sister, Miriam, collector of this, that and the other; and keeper of old photographs. Wilson, who was born in 1881 in Bradford, was a clerk on the railways, […]
Had You Been There
This postcard – dating back to 1913 – appears never to have been sent through the post. It was written by Andrew – who we can suppose is the man in the middle of this group – to Mary Campbell of Cowdenbeath, who fairly obviously doesn’t feature in […]
The Last Afternoon At Sea
Over the last couple of months I have been slowly scanning my way through a 1925 photograph album I bought on a second hand stall. Entitled “Cruise To The Northern Capitals of Europe on the SS City of Nagpur, July-August 1925“, the album contains over 50 sepia photographs […]
1738 : Lee Bank Mill, Halifax
A photograph of Lee Bank Mill in Halifax which I took in the early 1970s. It was an age of closed and crumbling mill buildings – an industrial heartland being reclaimed by vegetation.
