I was in Manchester last week with a group of friends - the famous Old Gits Luncheon Club - and we were walking along the Rochdale Canal en-route to a splendid public house called The Briton's Protection, when I spotted two buildings, separated by a few hundred yards and a few hundred years in economic … Continue reading Manchester With A Shiny Surface
Ten From The Pub 8 : Say Cheese
The Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street, London (1987) I have just realised that I have got to number eight in this ten part series on pubs and all I have shown is buildings. Buildings in themselves - whatever their architectural merit, however much their timbers have absorbed centuries of malt and hops - are not pubs. … Continue reading Ten From The Pub 8 : Say Cheese
Northern Capitals 5 : The Elsinore Kipper Factory
This particular picture is captioned "The Castle at Elsinore from Marienlyst" and if you direct your attention to the left of the photograph there is a castle which I assume is the castle in question. It is, however, also a photo of what looks like the kipper factory at Elsinore, and, towards the right of … Continue reading Northern Capitals 5 : The Elsinore Kipper Factory
Northern Capitals 4 – After Lunch
So here we are: page 4 of the Northern Capitals album and we are still in Marienlyst just having had a very pleasant lunch at the hotel, What better time to take a group photograph - and what a group it is.
Ten From The Pub 7 – Anchors Away
Anchor Inn, Brighouse (c1970) There has been a pub next to the Anchor Bridge over the Calder and Hebble Navigation in Brighouse ever since the canal was constructed in the 1750s. For most of that time, the pub was quite reasonably called the Anchor Inn, but for some reason it was decided that it … Continue reading Ten From The Pub 7 – Anchors Away
Ten From The Pub 6 : Warts From A Saddle
Saddle Hotel, Market Street / Russel Street, Halifax (1965) Hidden behind the undoubted delights of the Mixenden Gala Queen on the back of a lorry, is the undoubted splendour of the Saddle Hotel. When I took this photo in 1965 it was an integral part of Halifax Borough Market, but a year later it … Continue reading Ten From The Pub 6 : Warts From A Saddle
Northern Capitals 3 : Yours Truly
The question I have been asking myself since I acquired this 90-year-old photo album is, who took the photographs? I am now on to page three and I find the first hint of an answer. A photograph has been removed - as far as I can tell, the only one to have been removed from … Continue reading Northern Capitals 3 : Yours Truly
Northern Capitals 2 : The Ghost Of Kronburg
We continue on our tour of Northern Capitals via the 1925 photograph album I bought at an antique shop. We are still in Kronburg in Denmark, and we get to meet "the sentry on the platform where the ghost walked", as we wander through the sunlit courtyards of the old castle. Our photographer appears, by … Continue reading Northern Capitals 2 : The Ghost Of Kronburg
Ten From The Pub 5 : Fallen Apples
North Bridge, Halifax (1966) You might need to search a little to find the pub in my photo of North Bridge in the mid 1960s, but there, at the end of the bridge on the left of the picture, is the eighteenth century Pine Apple Hotel. When Burdock Way ploughed its way down the hill … Continue reading Ten From The Pub 5 : Fallen Apples
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