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And So To Bed
The great thing about Sepia Saturday is that it gets you digging. I don’t mean digging outside in the cold and wet winter months, lifting shovel-fulls of clogging dank earth; I mean digging through your collection of old photographs in… Read More ›
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Two Pictures, Three Girls
My post today features two images from my family photograph collection. Between them they feature three girls – and three methods of identification. The first photograph is the later of the two, and probably dates from around 1928. It shows… Read More ›
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Christmas Shopping In Bradford
We caught a bus to Bradford yesterday to do a little Christmas shopping and to look at the wonderful Victorian architecture that still lines the stone city streets. A few days ago I came across an old copy of an… Read More ›
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The Bailie In Question
Les Cloches de Corneville was a comic opera popular in the first half of the twentieth century with amateur operatic societies in Britain. I have never actually seen it performed, but as far as I can gather it had something… Read More ›
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There Really Should Be A Word For It
Vocabulary has always a tendency to lag behind technological progress – which is why we have a word for a merchant who deals in candles made out of sheep’s intestines (“tallower” in case you are interested), but no word to… Read More ›
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Negative Thoughts : Square Bales
This is a scan of a negative I took over fifty years ago, in the mid 1960s. I can date it because of the rest of the shots on the strip of negatives – but even if they had not… Read More ›
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Lost Relatives Awaiting Collection
This is another photograph in my series “Pictures From Nowhere“, which features photographs that have somehow come into my possession through fair means or foul. All I know about this particular orphan image is a date (which someone has kindly… Read More ›
