HALIFAX MARKET (c1968) I think I took this photograph in Halifax Borough Market over fifty years ago. I can't be sure: what with a memory as grainy as my negatives and an incomplete on-line database of market stall holders. However, L Chapman's sounds familiar, and, anyway, these are Halifax shapes. The taut headscarves, the Summer … Continue reading Halifax Shapes
Year: 2020
Steam Geolocation
TINSLEY WEST SIGNAL BOX, SHEFFIELD (c1983) The kids these days have it easy: pick up their smartphones, click the button, and applecadabra they have a photograph which is automatically dated and geolocated to within a metre of where they are standing. When I was a young lad - alright, when I was pushing middle age … Continue reading Steam Geolocation
Donkey Hill, Halifax
This cobbled way which runs from Old Lane up to Woodside in Halifax, is popularly known as Donkey Hill, although you will probably have difficulty finding that name used on any official map. Countless generations of Halifax folk have memories of sledging down the steep hill as children in winters, and early morning walks to … Continue reading Donkey Hill, Halifax
The Great Wall Of Northowram
Howes Lane, Northowram This is another of my photographs taken in Howes Lane, Northowram around fifty years or so ago. This time it is looking towards the head of Shibden Valley, in the direction of Ambler Thorn. The photograph captures one of the great walls of Northowram, a huge stone structure built to enclose a … Continue reading The Great Wall Of Northowram
Repetitive Overspill
Halifax and Shibden Valley (c1967) As I trawl through my old photographs I frequently discover the same scene captured again and again - at different times, in different seasons and different years. Often this is not a conscious thing: at the time I can't remember having taking the same photograph before - it is only … Continue reading Repetitive Overspill
A Patch Of Land
This is a photograph showing the lower part of Halifax, which I must have taken in the 1960s. There is a mist - or perhaps a fog - clinging to the town and making it sufficiently difficult to pinpoint actual buildings, there is an element of challenge about it. What can be clearly seen are … Continue reading A Patch Of Land
Memories, Thick And Fast
This certainly isn't my best photograph from the 1960s - there's a bit of camera shake, the developing was more miss than hit, and it was a dark, wet, misty day to start out with. But what it lacks in photographic quality, it makes up in part with atmosphere. As I look at it now, … Continue reading Memories, Thick And Fast
Old Photo, Old Bank, Old Friends
The last shot in this particular sequence of negatives from fifty years ago focuses on people rather than places; but still has a fair amount to tell us about changes to Halifax over the last half century. I think I must have taken this picture from Old Bank, which was the cobbled road that ran … Continue reading Old Photo, Old Bank, Old Friends
Wild Halifax
I spent yesterday sheltering from Storm Francis. What else is there to do other than to play around with images - in this case some of the photographs I took in Halifax on Monday (a sunny day). As the rain poured down, it was time to open up the Photoshop and let my imagination run … Continue reading Wild Halifax
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