History In The Sun

What better way to spend a sunny day than wandering around a Yorkshire churchyard, looking for history and finding it under every stone slab.

Postcards From Home (School)

The old Crossley Orphanage - now the Crossley Heath School - remains one of the most handsome buildings in Halifax. Nevertheless - almost 50 years after I attended it - I still have nightmares about getting lost within its labyrinthine corridors.

Seven On A Wall

UNKNOWN GROUP OF SEVEN AND A WALL Seven people and a wall. Seven mid-century faces: post-war, post-depression - all tweed jackets and Oxford bags. That first, troubling half century is behind them - the future is awaiting them.

Stone And Sun

Forget love and marriage, fish and chips, Cagney and Lacey: surely the finest combination of all is a warm spring sun on solid Yorkshire stone.

Stone Antiquities And Tree Trunk Props

This little Victorian Carte de Visite dates from a time when photographs were for special occasions, rather than the result of a selfie-click on a smartphone. Young men or women would have their photographs taken on birthdays and holidays, wearing their very best clothes, and posing against a background of stone antiquities and tree-trunk props (the props … Continue reading Stone Antiquities And Tree Trunk Props

When Burne-Jones Was In Brighouse

An old postcard reminds me of one of the lost churches of Brighouse which was once the home of glorious windows by Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.

Conversations

Two Couples On The Prom (1930s) There was a time when people would dress up to walk along the prom. A time of hats and coats and canes. A time of conversations through pipe-clenched teeth.