Year: 2021

Match At Meltham

It's late summer: the sun is playing peekaboo behind the clouds and your grandchildren are playing all around you. Cricketers play cricket, and the moors flirt with the fields. What else is there to do but to mess with Photoshop!

A Tram To The Dutchman

An old picture postcard of Boothtown Road in Halifax lands in my collection: a typical scene from the first decade of the twentieth century with tramlines and empty streets. If you look carefully at the photograph, you can make out part of the Akroydon model village on the left of the road and, in the … Continue reading A Tram To The Dutchman

Around The World In Eighty Words : 2. SELECTION

"Good God, it's hot!", said Lucy. "Stop complaining", I replied, "and while we are at it, watch your language, they're very religious in these parts, there are mosques all over the place". "I'm entitled to my opinion", countered Lucy, somewhat defensively. "You might well be entitled to an opinion", I said, "but you're not entitled … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words : 2. SELECTION

HOME 13 : Looking Up At Beacon Hill

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