I took this photograph some 45 years ago in Bridlington. As I took it I seem to remember thinking "what do old people think about all day as they float, semi-comatose, towards the evening of their lives?" And now I know. They think "I took this photograph some 45 years ago in Bridlington ..."

Fifty-two or so years ago my then girlfriend (and soon to be wife) did some modelling for a local art group. One of the artists (Barbara Gordon-Cumming) was the mother of one of our oldest and closest friends. This is the painting she did: it still hangs with pride in our hallway - looking down … Continue reading Issy

It's impossible to deny her anything. If she wants half your bacon sandwich, she gets it. If she wants to walk in her direction rather than your direction, that's the way you go. If she wants the cover to lie on the settee, you sit on another chair and try to keep warm. It is, … Continue reading A Study In Brown

Another of those Walking Snaps - this one showing my grandmother and grandfather, Kate and Albert Beanland. Albert was my mothers' father - I never knew him, he died before I was born. His father was Fowler Beanland; my mother never knew him, he died before she was born. His father was Thomas Beanland; Albert … Continue reading Grand

I must have taken this photograph from high up in one of the block of flats in Upperthorpe, Sheffield, forty-odd years ago. Back in those days I couldn't pass a block of flats - and there were many to choose from in Sheffield in the 70s and 80s - without climbing the concrete stairs to … Continue reading DRONING ON ABOUT SHEFFIELD

When I took this photograph half a century ago, I never realised that I was recording a slice of social history. The age of the second-hand shop has now been eclipsed by Charity Shops and On-Line Auction sites. Bikes no longer hang from walls and Dalek paraffin heaters no longer stand guard over rows of … Continue reading Tart’s General Dealers

Harry Moore - my Uncle Harry - was born in Bradford in 1903 and, for a time in the early 1930s he was a professional entertainer with a travelling Concert Party, appearing in seaside pavilions and small town theatres throughout the land. After he married in 1933, he gave up touring and took a job … Continue reading Desktop Calendar : Harry’s Cricket Cows

According to my Lightroom Catalogue I have amassed some 93,606 photographs over my lifetime. Given my considerable age that works out at one photograph every seven hours, day and night, since the moment of my birth. I got a random number generator to pick just one of the 93,606 to illustrate today's calendar and it … Continue reading Desktop Calendar : Helsinki Burns Boats