My first thoughts about this studio photograph of an unknown young woman was that it might have been taken during the Great War. There is a confidence about her - the kind of confidence which came from women working in the factories and workshops, a confidence that somehow rose above the dangers of the workplace … Continue reading The Confidence Of Post-War Youth
Month: March 2019
Pavement Puddles
Pavement Puddle, Huddersfield : 5 March 2019 The weather forecast for today is sunny intervals, with heavy rain showers and great thick Yorkshire stone kerbs
Halifax Town Hall – Saved By The Banks!
This old picture postcard was never used and therefore we don't have a postmark to help us date it. It was published by a Halifax firm - Ryley's of 27, Southgate - but I have been unable to trace when they were active in business. The photograph appears to have been taken at eight in … Continue reading Halifax Town Hall – Saved By The Banks!
A Sinkhole In History Takes Us To A Missionary In China
This is an old photograph of a wedding party that must have been in a job lot of old photos I bought recently. Someone has kindly written some basic information on the reverse of the photograph: "Francis Henry and Alice Evangeline Mosse, Married at the Legation Church, Peking, November 8th 1921". Thirty years ago that … Continue reading A Sinkhole In History Takes Us To A Missionary In China
Where There’s Muck There’s Culture
Holdsworth's Wool Merchants, Mulcture Hall Road, Halifax (Alan Burnett, 1970) This is a scan of a negative of mine from 1970 featuring a Wool Merchant's warehouse in Halifax. The building is on the corner of the delightfully named Mulcture Hall Road. I always think that the word Mulcture sounds like a West Yorkshire mixture of … Continue reading Where There’s Muck There’s Culture
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