Voting Day

I've just realised it is 50 years since I walked through those doors and started work behind that arched window for the first time. A lot has happened in the intervening half century. I'll be thinking of those times when I go to cast my vote today.

Never Square

39/1001 : Square Church was never square. Not when its nave gave shelter to praying congregations, nor when its skeleton lay open to the elements. Nor now, when it cosies up to books and arts and shops and bars. Square Church is never square.

To The Woods

Of course this is not realistic, it's not meant to be. Realism can wait for another day. On the 1st of May I want to feast on patterns and gorge on colours. To the woods!

Back Yard

38/1001 : There is something real about back yards, something honest, something revealing. They represent domesticity without make-up - a place for all the ladders and bins, and all the pipes and washing lines to do what they need to do. This was my back yard forty-odd years ago.

John Hodge And The Overdue Stove

This picture postcard of the Labour politician and Member of Parliament John Hodge dates from October 1911. He was 51 years old when he was elected as the MP for Manchester Gorton in the 1904 General Election which saw 29 members of the new Labour Party being returned to Parliament. It was a time when … Continue reading John Hodge And The Overdue Stove

Weather Forecast

Here is the weather forecast for today .... and tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that .....

Tunnel End

Photographs don't have to be "good" photographs to be memorable. Sometimes all they need to do is to capture a moment in time, seize a memory, transport you back to your youth. In this case I think it was Tunnel End in Marsden, but I can't be sure. Wherever it was, we're all at the … Continue reading Tunnel End

Hastings Hats

Some years ago I had a phase of buying old glass plate negatives on eBay. I had to abandon the practice as they would consistently arrive through the post in pieces. Here's one that made it without breaking - it shows a group of women (could it be a milliners outing) in Hastings. Just as … Continue reading Hastings Hats