There is a modern passion for "colourising" old monochrome photographs and films, and when this is skilfully done, it can provide a more accurate link to the past. Reproducing scenes in various shades of grey was simply a short interlude in our visual history - imposed by the technical limitations of early photographic techniques. Neither … Continue reading The Blue Skies And Mustard Streets Of Brighouse
Month: September 2019
Photos Of The Day
Floating Umbrellas, Centenary Square, Bradford Karaoke Singer, Rock Tavern, Elland Castle Hill, Huddersfield Crystal Peaks Market, Sheffield
Storm Clouds Over Livorno
Extract From A Holiday Diary:We arrived early in the morning at Livorno to be greeted by a storm of epic proportions. It was rather like the God Vulcan tossing thunderbolts at his mate Jupiter, whilst Persephone had a screaming fit because someone had trodden on her toe. Nero and Augustus would have cringed in the … Continue reading Storm Clouds Over Livorno
Here And There
Over the next week or so I will be here, there and everywhere, and the best I can do is to provide a daily record of where I have been and what I have seen. We start close to home - but as the days go by the locations are due to get rather more … Continue reading Here And There
What A Picture
Where I got this old photograph of the staff of the Manchester Hotel in Bournemouth at their Staff Ball on the 1st January 1921, I have no idea. But what a picture it is, what a story it has to tell.
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