Even with photographs taken fifty years ago, I am normally pretty good at remembering roughly where they were taken. Perhaps I can't always pin down the actual street corner or the back alley, but, in most cases, when I clicked the camera shutter release, some form of medieval GPS geotagged the image in my mind. … Continue reading The Failure Of Medieval GPS
Year: 2020
A Lazy S
Whenever I look at my old photographs of Halifax from the sixties and seventies, I am reminded of just how much it was a period of change for the town. Roads were being built whilst others were being demolished, chimneys were coming down whilst tower blocks were going up. And the trees were coming back: … Continue reading A Lazy S
Framed By A Window
This is quite an unusual shot for a variety of reasons. Let's forget for a moment who these four people are, and where they were: both are unknown and not massively important in the great scheme of things - especially to the lover of old lost and found photographs. We do have, however, quite a … Continue reading Framed By A Window
Where Houses Weren’t And Mills Still Were
Here is the second of the photographs taken from the top of Beacon Hill, Halifax in the early 1970s. My camera has swung around, so now I am looking in the direction of The Shay and Savile Park. You can just make out the three graces - St Jude's Church, Crossley Heath and Wainhouse Tower … Continue reading Where Houses Weren’t And Mills Still Were
Picture Posts : 17 August 2020
Poppies And Barbed Wire, Wortley : 15 August 2020 Market Tenants Only, Todmorden Market : 12 August 2020
Another Snowy Night In Sheffield
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
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
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