I took this photograph of the late, great Humphrey Lyttelton when he and his band played at the Marsden Jazz Festival in 2006. I also got the chance to talk to him briefly - what a wonderful man he was.
Month: March 2024
Annie In The Garden
A photo probably taken in the 1940s of my Aunty Annie in the garden of her house on Carbottom Lane, Bradford. I can just about remember visiting the house and marvelling at the rather grand stone fireplace that they had installed in the front room.
Quebec Street, Elland
One of two photographs I took of Quebec Street in Elland in the early 1980s. The street seems empty of people and almost empty of cars but full of atmosphere.
Fishing Boats
Can it really be sixty years ago that I took this photograph! I can still remember walking down the harbour and liking the curve of the rope and thinking “that might work”. No, it was only yesterday, surely. Only a moment ago. Only a lifetime ago.
Sheep
In praise of photographic accidents. I'm not sure what went wrong when I took this photo - perhaps the sheep moved, perhaps I didn't have the camera set up right. Those serendipitous angels of image-making stepped in and left me with something pleasing in a woolly kind of way.
Same Streets
I think this was somewhere in the Potteries, but it could have been any of the triptych of locations - West Yorks, North Staffs, South Yorks - I spent the first half of my life in. The same streets, the same chimneys: but the same pride in hard work, the same social solidarity.
Courageous Development
Fifty years ago I was living in London, working in politics, and spending my spare time attempting to capture a photographic record of all the old London Breweries, most of which were in their final years as working breweries. The sites - like the site of Courage's Anchor Brewery pictured here - were in prime … Continue reading Courageous Development
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