I can't remember exactly where I was in Sheffield when I took this, but there are folk out there who will recognise the location. I can, however, remember that girl, carrying a newspaper almost as big as she was and having a quick read of the news in the middle of the road.
14 March 2024 : Pasty Faced
There's something slightly odd about this old Victorian Studio Cabinet Card, and it took me a few minutes before I realised what it was. It's almost as though the faces have been pasted on to a stock photo of three bodies or even placed through holes in life-size cardboard cut-outs. Perhaps photo manipulation isn't such … Continue reading 14 March 2024 : Pasty Faced
19/1001 : Thrills
Ah! the days when thrills were characterised by a shilling ride on a waltzer, sheltering from the rain under bulb-spangled awnings, with the scent of freshly cooked chats drifting in the breeze.
13 March 2024
As far as I can tell, the photograph features my father's Aunt Rose-Ellen (left) and her daughter, Ivy. The elderly couple are Rose-Ellen's parents, Mary and Stephen Lane, and I suspect the location of this wonderful tea party would have been opposite their house in Bradford. It's a perfect treasure of a photograph which deserves … Continue reading 13 March 2024
18/1001 : Fake Views
As someone said recently, us amateur photographers do like to mess with our photographs. This is a photo I took back in 1982 in the beautiful British Virgin Islands and messed with forty years later. There's not a misaligned sleeve in sight!
One Image, Two Stories
One image telling two stories. The top half - the banner - reminds us of the fact that there were times when people were proud of political achievements, a time when the welfare state was something to be paraded through the streets as a badge of social honour. The lower part of the picture is … Continue reading One Image, Two Stories
Spot The Era
Some aspects of the scene are unchanged today - most of the physical buildings remain. There has, however, been a change of mood, something almost imperceptible that says this is 40 years ago and not today. It could be the genesis of a new game - Spot The Era
Paper Hanging
Some people read the paper, some try and understand the meaning of life, George II and Elvis Presley both died there .... and photographers look for shapes and patterns and textures.
Well Done That Town
The shop names and the shape of the cars may be different, and flat caps and plastic rain hoods abound; but the scene is still recognisable. In many places, the modern equivalent would be a pale shadow of commercial enterprise, but not Brighouse. Well done!
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