Another of my photos from that walk down Boys Lane, Halifax forty-odd years ago. The wonderful Shears Inn is still going strong and always well worth a visit. Paris Gates sounds a romantic location, but I understand it was originally known as the slightly more prosaic "Parish Gates".
Day: December 7, 2023
Graveyards
Things should fade away in graveyards: become less sharp and less certain. Colours should merge along with moods; hopes and fears become one. Graveyards are the breeding grounds of memories.
Colourful Calderdale
Another image from my brother's new book "The Calderdale Portfolio". A very colourful Sowerby Bridge Wharf with the iconic Wainhouse Tower in the background. The full book can be downloaded from his website : https://studiopublications.org
Muck, Soot And Industry
Other places commission large-scale public sculptural projects, be they Kelpies, Angels or cast iron paddlers on Crosby sands. We don't need them here in Halifax, we still have a host of monumental obelisks in praise of muck, steam, soot and industry. Halifax shapes.
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