I have spent much of my life looking up at Beacon Hill. It was there when I walked home from school, there when I worked in its shadow, there as a backdrop to so many important milestones in my life. Over 70 years both it and I have changed. I have grown older, greyer and … Continue reading HOME 13 : Looking Up At Beacon Hill
Month: September 2021
Home 12 : Vale Of Tears And Laughter
This is a photograph of one of the two Sunny Vale lakes, which I must have taken almost sixty years ago. Sixty years before that Sunny Vale Gardens, Hipperholme were attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. A superb 1901 film - Trip To Sunny Vale Gardens - is available on the British Film … Continue reading Home 12 : Vale Of Tears And Laughter
Around The World In Eighty Words : 1 SHORT
"What is it?", said Lucy. "It's more a question of what was it", I replied philosophically. "It could have been corn, it might have been hay, even possibly wheat; but right now it is stubble, and more to the point, it digs into your ankles". "Tell me about it", whined Lucy, "I've got twice as … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words : 1 SHORT
In The North
This unused picture postcard - which came into my possession by fair means or foul, originated in France in 1916. It shows a cartoon by the artist, Jean Louis Forain, and is entitled “Dans le Nord - En Esclavage” (In the North - In Bondage). The drawing contains a quotation from the proclamation issued by … Continue reading In The North
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