Another set of photographs from the early 1980s in Sheffield. Perhaps it was always snowing in winter in Sheffield forty years ago, but more likely these photographs were taken on the same night as the ones I featured a couple of weeks ago. The weather may have been bad, but it didn't stop people going … Continue reading Another Snowy Night In Sheffield
Month: August 2020
The Tomb Of The Unknown Civilian
The attraction of old photographs of unknown people is the very fact that they are unknown: sepia coloured blank canvases upon which we can paint whatever story we like. This young Edwardian man could be anyone's Grandfather or Great Uncle ..... or he could be a Great War poet mentally penning his ode to Armageddon. … Continue reading The Tomb Of The Unknown Civilian
Back On Top Of Beacon Hill
Looking back at my old photographs, it would appear that I spent much of my youth stood on top of Beacon Hill, Halifax! If it were true, such behaviour can be partly justified by the fact that the top of Beacon Hill was the nearest we had to drones fifty years ago. From there, you … Continue reading Back On Top Of Beacon Hill
Brighouse And The End Of The American Civil War
Bethel Street, Brighouse c. 1966 The last of the four photographs from Brighouse back in the 1960s shows the busy pavements of Bethel Street with the unmistakable facade of the Prince of Wales Pub (now The Old Ship) in the background. The renaming of pubs is normally a retrograde process, but in the case of … Continue reading Brighouse And The End Of The American Civil War
The View From The Other Side
Thornton Square, Brighouse c. 1966 What else is there to do? Once you have taken a photograph looking down Briggate in Brighouse, the obvious thing to do is to walk to the other end of the street and take a photograph looking up Briggate. As with so many of the photos I took over fifty … Continue reading The View From The Other Side
Life Before Wilko
Briggate, Brighouse c. 1966 This is a photograph I took of Briggate in Brighouse over half a century ago. It seems like only yesterday, but the fact that the right hand side of the street no longer exists proves that it was a lot of yesterdays ago. This was Brighouse before Wilko, before Tesco, before … Continue reading Life Before Wilko
The Caryatids Of Ossett
With the iron grill of travel restrictions falling faster than the time it takes to flick through a glossy travel brochure, one is left wondering where to go for that little romantic break. Versailles is iffy, Venice is to be avoided and Athens is a risk too far. So what better way to spend a … Continue reading The Caryatids Of Ossett
Come Back Soon
COMMERCIAL STREET, BRIGHOUSE (c1968) This is a photograph I took in the 1960s of Commercial Street, Brighouse. Looking at it again as it emerges from the negative scanning machine, I am struck by the changes. Not the physical changes - the buildings are just about the same as they were fifty years ago; Brighouse has … Continue reading Come Back Soon
A Snowy Night In Sheffield
A series of five photographs from a recently scanned strip of negatives. They date from my time living in Sheffield in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Something about the grain of the images and the grittiness of the off-white snow seems to fit in with my memory of the times. There really should be … Continue reading A Snowy Night In Sheffield
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