With little to do last night other than watch the snow settle, I started messing about with Elland (and why shouldn't I, most people have over recent years). In my case, Elland was in the form of a short strip of negatives from sometime in the 1980s. The three scenes were all familiar subjects to … Continue reading Messing About With Elland
Year: 2021
On This Day : That’s Magic!
On this day 144 years ago, Dr Lynn and his Hindoo Jugglers were due to perform at Brighouse Town Hall. By the time the performance was due to start - they's mysteriously vanished. That's magic!
Around The World In 80 Words : 12. Washing
One of the great delights of travelling around the world powered only by eighty word changes to your what3words geolocation code is that one minute you can be contemplating a volcano in far flung Lombok, and the next you can be strolling along a French boulevard contemplating nothing more challenging than a champagne supper. My … Continue reading Around The World In 80 Words : 12. Washing
Endless Days
I used to live next door to this imposing building. At one time it was a church, at other times it has been everything from a pathology facility to student accommodation. Each day I would climb those stone steps heading for the bus shelter and then .... to life. Annie Moore - Auntie Annie - … Continue reading Endless Days
Parade Through History
I was asked for more photographs of Northowram, so I dipped back into my archives of dusty old negatives and found this picture of a parade passing down Lydgate in Northowram in the late 1960s. It looks like the crowning of the Village Gala Queen, or some such event, and I suspect I took the … Continue reading Parade Through History
Making The Best
Not all photographs are good photographs. These days we get instant results from our digital cameras and smartphones, and those that are out of focus, under-exposed or decapitating the heads of relatives, can be instantly deleted. Back in the Film Age, however, the seasons could change between the shutter clicking and the prints arriving. This … Continue reading Making The Best
A Visual Thing
There is a joy in found photographs - a combination of the satisfaction of discovery and the slightly guilty pleasure of historical voyeurism. Take a crumpled old photograph from who knows where. The subjects are nameless and the location is placeless. In scanning the photograph you are preserving it for the future, but, at the … Continue reading A Visual Thing
More Days
More days - three new calendar pages. The Black Brook runs through West Vale without causing any fuss. It is not a pretentious river: even its name conceals the fact that it is full of Autumn colour. This was taken on Friday during one of our regular Greetland walks. The stained glass window in Cleckheaton … Continue reading More Days
Around The World In Eighty Words : 11. SHIRT
The Story So Far ….. It started as a harmless question during one of those long lockdown days: was it possible to travel virtually around the world in just eighty word changes to my what3words geolocation code and return to my starting point? For a companion I had my six year old labradoodle, Lucy, and … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words : 11. SHIRT
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