An old vintage postcard of Kirkgate Market, Bradford : a reminder of a beautiful building, now long gone.
Author: Alan Burnett
A Walk Up Thornhills Lane
This is an old postcard from my collection and it features a view of Thornhills Lane in Brighouse. Once the sun returns to the sky I will take a walk up the Lane and record what has changed in the last 110 years, but as far as I remember from the last time I was … Continue reading A Walk Up Thornhills Lane
Random News : Cameras, Coneys And Champion’s Vinegar
Our random date generating time machine has taken us back to Friday 31st August 1945 and given us a copy of the Yorkshire Post to read. Just over three months ago the war in Europe came to an end, just under three weeks ago the war in the Far East also came to an end, … Continue reading Random News : Cameras, Coneys And Champion’s Vinegar
Picture Post : Clare Street Cobbles
Clare Street, Halifax : 17 December 2018
A Gem At The Post Office Exhibition
A thing of beauty can be found in the most unlikely places. This tiny old print was found sticking to the side of an envelope that must have contained a collection of photographs of more supposed interest. It was lost and forgotten for all the reasons such tiny works of photographic art are lost and … Continue reading A Gem At The Post Office Exhibition
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 search of a match for whatever theme image that infuriating chap who chooses the theme … Continue reading And So To Bed
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 two teenage girls with a Japanese umbrella and the hint of a painted Japanese scene … Continue reading Two Pictures, Three Girls
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 1893 Yorkshire Trade Directory - before you ask, yes it was lodged up my back … Continue reading Christmas Shopping In Bradford
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 of a Gilbert and Sullivan feel to it, and like the various comic operas of … Continue reading The Bailie In Question
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