Unloading coal at a wharf in Leeds on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. I must have taken the photograph fifty years ago when the river and canal in Leeds were industrial by-waters. These days they are all plate glass offices and designer restaurants. All Change.

Shaw Lane Mills, Halifax : 1980s. The fire escape is like one of those M C Escher Impossible Stairways - you can run but you can never escape. A bit like the local mill for generation after generation of my family.

Our Sepia Saturday theme image this week features an illustration from a late Victorian edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. There are all sorts of directions I could go with this theme. My Great Grandmother, for example, married a chap called J Robinson Thickpenny; but that is another story altogether and best left until … Continue reading Sepia Saturday 308 : The Lusty Cloth Dressers Of Halifax