You could probably take a similar photo today of a bus crossing Burdock Way in Halifax, but there was something starker about the scene when I took this 45 years ago. In those days colour was for holidays and weddings and folk who had too much money. For the rest it was black and white … Continue reading And A Bit In Between
Month: May 2025
Through The Mill To Shroggs Park
This picture of Shroggs Park in Halifax comes from an early 20th century picture postcard. The park was one of the legacies of local mill owner, Colonel Edward Ackroyd, who funded its building on a piece of waste ground overlooking the Wheatley Valley in 1872. The writer of the card, Jeanie, talks about having "been through … Continue reading Through The Mill To Shroggs Park
Up And Down Blake Street
This is one of my photographs from the time we were living in Sheffield in the early 1980s. Blake Street is reputedly the third steepest street in England, and the handrail was an essential part of navigating up and down the street on wintry days. The handrail was still in place the last time I … Continue reading Up And Down Blake Street
The Walkley Hoard
Some years ago I bought a batch of of negatives for a few pounds. The photographs must have been taken during the 1940s and 50s, and many featured views of the Walkley area of Sheffield, so collectively I call them the Walkley Hoard. This is a print from one of the medium format negatives - … Continue reading The Walkley Hoard
A Passage To Halifax
It's goodbye to the fens and the farms, the sea and the sand, and a return to more familiar landscape of mills and moors, chimneys and chapels. Here's one I took earlier - about sixty years earlier, in fact. It was taken looking towards Halifax from Haley Hill, from a spot that I suspect no … Continue reading A Passage To Halifax
East Angles
The last of my photos from my short break in East Anglia. Now it is home to the hills of Yorkshire.
Epoch Upon Epoch
Elm Hill must be one of the most photographed streets in England. Look around and you see buildings that have been unchanged in many ways for 600 years. But look down and you see history on another level, epoch upon epoch, geological time set down in the carriageway of history.
Seaweed And Salt
Seaweed, sea salt, big skies. A detectorist sweeps the sands for lost treasure and beer bottle tops. A wind surfer bobs south, riding the waves. The wind blows. Seaweed and salt.
The Small Detail
On our travels and surrounded by big and beautiful vistas. Sometimes, however, it is the small detail that captures your attention: the odd angle, the disconnected phrase.
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