GAS WORKS & RAILWAY SIDINGS FROM NORTH BRIDGE, HALIFAX Looking back at this photograph I must have taken sometime around 1968, it has a staged feeling to it, as though it has been carefully posed as an album cover for a Champion Jack Dupree LP. It wasn't staged, however, nor were the colour tampered with. … Continue reading Halifax As It Was
Year: 2020
Straight Lines And Edges
This is Elland in the 1970s. The harsh straight lines of lampposts and mill chimneys stand out in sharp contrast from the curve of Upper Edge in the background. One of the mills is now long-gone, the other has been converted into apartments. The lampposts are still there - and so is the hill.
A Different World
HALIFAX PIECE HALL (1960s) It was a different world, a different time. What is now seen as an architectural icon, was then simply a place of work. Where now you can find good books, rare objects, and visual and culinary delights; then you could find Maris Pipers, Cox's Pippens and Hawke's Champagne Rhubarb. Feet now … Continue reading A Different World
History In Pixels
MARKET STREET, HALIFAX (c1964) It's one of those photographs full of movement, full of buildings, full of memories, and full of history. From the various visual clues and by searching what is left of my memory, I can conclude that I must have taken this photograph in the mid 1960s, for the sake of argument, … Continue reading History In Pixels
Bowling Along Through Halifax
BRUNSWICK BOWLING, BROAD STREET, HALIFAX (c1966) The ability of old photographs to spark memories never ceases to amaze me. I tracked down this old colour slide yesterday after someone, quite rightly, pointed out that what was set on top of the bowling alley in Broad Street, Halifax in the 1960s, was not a bowl, as … Continue reading Bowling Along Through Halifax
Memories, Patterns And Frameworks
I have spent some time trying to fit the patterns and memories together in order to come up with a location for my photo from fifty-odd years ago; my best suggestion is that I must have been standing somewhere near to where the Eureka Museum now stands.
Commercial Adventures In Halifax
COMMERCIAL STREET, HALIFAX (1960s) When I was young, and adventurous, and rust-free, I could never resist the opportunities provided by a rainy night when it came to photographic patterns and reflections. I suspect that this is a fairly early photograph of mine, taken in the mid 1960s. I am fairly certain that it was taken … Continue reading Commercial Adventures In Halifax
Lowry In A River
LOWRY IN A RIVER, BLACK BROOK, WEST VALE, September 2020 Now Lowry is hung upon the wallBeside the greatest of them allAnd even the Mona Lisa takes a bowThis tired old man with hair like snowTold northern folk it's time to goThe fever came and the good lord mopped his browAnd he left us matchstalk … Continue reading Lowry In A River
Time After Time
Halifax Town Hall & Broad Street Car Park (c1972) My negatives are cut into strips of six, and, over the years, the individual strips have been moved so many times, they no longer have a logical sequence. Whilst each shot within the six is, obviously, related in time and place to those adjacent, the same … Continue reading Time After Time
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