My father would have been fascinated by these tools, as would his father, who probably owned a similar set. My brother will be fascinated to see these tools. Whatever tools were available when it came to chopping up the DNA that went into me made an error, however, as they left out those solid craftsman-like … Continue reading All In A Day: 4. Carpentry
Month: August 2025
All In A Day. 3. Visibility
All In A Day: 3. Visibility. By now, many of you will have worked out the location of this week's images - if not, there will be more clues over the next few days. The windows are decorated with what are, in effect, fifteenth and sixteenth century emoji. Whilst some are a little faded and … Continue reading All In A Day. 3. Visibility
All In A Day: 2. Remedy
All In A Day: 2. Remedy. There is something symbolic about this row of jars. The way natural elements and minerals have been extracted, categorised, compartmentalised, ordered and labeled is strangely appealing. I suppose I am a categoriser; never happier than when I am distilling life and storing it labelled apothecary jars.
All In A Day : 1. Piety
I'm calling this little mini-series of calendar images "All In A Day" as they were all taken on the same day, indeed within the same couple of hours. They were all taken at the same place, but I will leave that up to you to work out. I took a very similar image to this … Continue reading All In A Day : 1. Piety
A Bit Of A Back Street Mystery
I've called this "Back Street In Elland", but I'm not sure it is. The next couple of shots on the negative strip are of Elland, and I certainly took a lot of photos in the town in the 1970s. However, I can't pin down the location and I have wandered around both physically and via … Continue reading A Bit Of A Back Street Mystery
Glory, Side-On
I walked past Bethesda Church in Elland the other day. I must have passed it by a thousand times before without pausing to look and appreciate its fine features. Designed by William Hill of Leeds - the architect of some beautiful town halls including those in Bolton, Yeadon and Portsmouth - and built in 1879-80, … Continue reading Glory, Side-On
The Fate Of The Horse
This is one of those photographs where you try to line up buildings and, with all the skill of a CSI officer, work out where I might have been standing when I took the photo fifty-odd years ago. I'm not sure of the answer, but zooming in on the background and seeing which buildings have … Continue reading The Fate Of The Horse
A Tidy Sum
I decided to tidy my room yesterday. Given the amount of junk/priceless antiquarian collections of ephemera my room is home to, this is both a major undertaking and one that is never completed. After half an hour, I found an old 5000 Mark German banknote, and after that, I spent a good half hour researching … Continue reading A Tidy Sum
Monochrome Memories
HALIFAX POWER STATION FROM CHARLESTOWN ROAD, 1967 : The clouds can't really have been that dark, the walls that soot-encrusted, the chimneys so stark. Time must have paid tricks on the film emulsion, or my exposure calculations were somewhat inaccurate. As for my memory, part of it says the sun always shined and the sky … Continue reading Monochrome Memories
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