Gladys By The Sea

My mother, Gladys, at the seaside over 90 years ago. A moment in time, but a moment that joins together a known history and a shared future. I’ve added a drop of colour, she’d have liked that.

St Thomas And The Gasworks

St Thomas And The Gas Works. Halifax, 1966 (The 2nd of my "1001 Photos" Project) I remember being mesmerised by the view of St Thomas’s, Claremount, framed within the complex structures of Halifax Gas Works. I would take a photograph almost every time I passed along Bank Bottom.

A Memorable Picture

“This will make a memorable picture” they probably all thought as the shutter shut. And it did: ninety years later people still look at it and think, what long legs he had!

Riding The Storm

Some time ago I was given a book called "1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die". During a long and boring airport drive on Saturday I decided to write a companion volume :"1001 Photographs I Took Before I Died" This is No 1, taken in Doncaster back in 1982.

Commercial Street, Brighouse

The scene is still fairly easily recognisable for those who know Brighouse: the point where King Street become Commercial Street. The George is still going and most of the buildings on the top side of Commercial Street are the same. The shop blinds, the hand cart and the gas lights are long gone, but Brighouse … Continue reading Commercial Street, Brighouse