BRACING ISOLATION, Skegness Pier, 1984 Take the famous bracing fresh air of Skegness on the east coast and add the splendid isolation of almost unlimited space, not to mention the remains of a pier that has the look of an extra in a sci-fi movie. (No 3 of my 1001 Photos Project)
Gladys By The Sea
My mother, Gladys, at the seaside over 90 years ago. A moment in time, but a moment that joins together a known history and a shared future. I’ve added a drop of colour, she’d have liked that.
St Thomas And The Gasworks
St Thomas And The Gas Works. Halifax, 1966 (The 2nd of my "1001 Photos" Project) I remember being mesmerised by the view of St Thomas’s, Claremount, framed within the complex structures of Halifax Gas Works. I would take a photograph almost every time I passed along Bank Bottom.
A Memorable Picture
“This will make a memorable picture” they probably all thought as the shutter shut. And it did: ninety years later people still look at it and think, what long legs he had!
Riding The Storm
Some time ago I was given a book called "1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die". During a long and boring airport drive on Saturday I decided to write a companion volume :"1001 Photographs I Took Before I Died" This is No 1, taken in Doncaster back in 1982.
Commercial Street, Brighouse
The scene is still fairly easily recognisable for those who know Brighouse: the point where King Street become Commercial Street. The George is still going and most of the buildings on the top side of Commercial Street are the same. The shop blinds, the hand cart and the gas lights are long gone, but Brighouse … Continue reading Commercial Street, Brighouse
Garden Visitor
A chance photograph taken through the kitchen window in order to check to see if my Nikon B700 is still working. It is!
Gala Days #2
These photos from the 1967 Halifax Charity Gala parade provide an insight not only into the street scenery of the time - there’s Greenwoods, Barratts, and M&S in the right place - but also the way of life of the time. And let’s not forget Pinky and Perky! 2/3
Pylons Welcomed
Some folks don’t take kindly to electricity pylons, accusing them of ruining what they believe to be “natural” landscapes. Up here, however, there’s nothing natural about these stone mined hills and mill smoked valleys. Pylons are welcome, any day.
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