Hopes Still In Place

The Yorkshire Miner’s Gala parade through Doncaster in 1982, a couple of years before the famous Miners’ Strike. The faces are still confident, the hopes still in place.
The Yorkshire Miner’s Gala parade through Doncaster in 1982, a couple of years before the famous Miners’ Strike. The faces are still confident, the hopes still in place.
According to my records – which are about as accurate as a Prime Minister’s promise – I took this photograph of Rhodes Street, Halifax in 1973. To me that sounds like only yesterday, but I suppose it is history. It is the year that I moved to London, and the walk down Gibbet Street might have been part of some farewell tour of the town of my youth. It would be twenty years before I moved back to the area – and a lot changed in that time.