Thirty years ago, when The Lad was young, most years we would go to Tenby for our holidays. The castle-topped islands and the step-carved rocky tendrils always attracted me, they were like something out of an Enid Blyton book. And the sun always shone .... except for the times it was raining!
Day: March 14, 2024
20/1001 : Reading The News
I can't remember exactly where I was in Sheffield when I took this, but there are folk out there who will recognise the location. I can, however, remember that girl, carrying a newspaper almost as big as she was and having a quick read of the news in the middle of the road.
14 March 2024 : Pasty Faced
There's something slightly odd about this old Victorian Studio Cabinet Card, and it took me a few minutes before I realised what it was. It's almost as though the faces have been pasted on to a stock photo of three bodies or even placed through holes in life-size cardboard cut-outs. Perhaps photo manipulation isn't such … Continue reading 14 March 2024 : Pasty Faced
19/1001 : Thrills
Ah! the days when thrills were characterised by a shilling ride on a waltzer, sheltering from the rain under bulb-spangled awnings, with the scent of freshly cooked chats drifting in the breeze.
13 March 2024
As far as I can tell, the photograph features my father's Aunt Rose-Ellen (left) and her daughter, Ivy. The elderly couple are Rose-Ellen's parents, Mary and Stephen Lane, and I suspect the location of this wonderful tea party would have been opposite their house in Bradford. It's a perfect treasure of a photograph which deserves … Continue reading 13 March 2024
18/1001 : Fake Views
As someone said recently, us amateur photographers do like to mess with our photographs. This is a photo I took back in 1982 in the beautiful British Virgin Islands and messed with forty years later. There's not a misaligned sleeve in sight!
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