Month: March 2018

Contours In The Snow

Outside, the snow is thick on the ground and the wind has the bite of a Rottweiler with a hang-over. Even Lucy the Dog refuses to set paw outside the door. The enforced incarceration means that I have to turn to that list of jobs I have been putting off - and in particular the … Continue reading Contours In The Snow

Young Albert

ALBERT BURNETT (1916/17) This is a scan of a tiny old photograph (only 3cm wide) of my father, Albert Burnett. At a guess I would say that he was about five or six years old when this photograph was taken which would make it either 1916 or 1917. The clothes are more than a century … Continue reading Young Albert

Ten From Halifax 9 : Fire In Halifax

FIRE IN HALIFAX (c1968) I am not entirely sure where I took this photograph, but it must have been in the Lister Lane area as the other frames on the negative strip were taken in People's Park. There was a mill fire which seemed to attract a larger audience than the brass band in the … Continue reading Ten From Halifax 9 : Fire In Halifax

With Best Love

WITH BEST LOVE FROM THE FADING PAST There is something wonderful when old photographs fade, so that the person almost merges into the background like a memory merging into time. I have no idea who this lady was, but she has written on the back of the photograph, "With best love".

Threeway At The Keys, Huddersfield

    Photographs taken at the gig by Threeway - Ben Crosland, Steve Lodder and Steve Waterman - at The Keys in Huddersfield. Thursday 15 March 2018

Ten From Halifax 8 : Before Eureka

BEFORE EUREKA : HALIFAX SIDINGS FROM STATION APPROACH (c1975) At one stage it was a busy goods yard and railway sidings, and then it became a cold, quiet, empty space. Then, Eureka, it became the National Children's Museum, full of colour, light and noise.

A Pint In The Slubbers

A Pint In The Slubbers : Slubbers Arms, Huddersfield (March 2018)

The Man With The Unenhanced Beard

The Man With The Unenhanced Beard (1890s) This Victorian Cabinet Card from the studio of John Leslie Thomas Shawcross of Blackburn had been touched-up by the photographer in order to enhance the gentleman's beard. I have digitally removed the enhancement to restore it to its natural beauty.

Ten From Halifax 7 : A Halifax Recipe

NORTH BRIDGE,  BURDOCK WAY & DEAN CLOUGH, HALIFAX (2017) Cast iron, reinforced concrete and warm sandstone - the three ingredients that go to make up Halifax. Slow cook in a drizzle-driven oven for two and a half centuries and serve with chips.