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Home 12 : Vale Of Tears And Laughter

This is a photograph of one of the two Sunny Vale lakes, which I must have taken almost sixty years ago. Sixty years before that Sunny Vale Gardens, Hipperholme were attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. A superb 1901 film - Trip To Sunny Vale Gardens - is available on the British Film … Continue reading Home 12 : Vale Of Tears And Laughter

Highlight Of The Day

Lined up like a regiment of administrative soldiers, the massed highlighters take to the field, ready to accentuate the positive, even if they can’t eliminate the negative. With one stroke they stream the words and phrases, hand out awards and bestow colourful certificates of credibility.

Plague And Pestilence In Downtown Halifax

My picture today shows the spire of Square Congregational Church, Halifax during the nadir of its fortunes in the early 1970s. Two fires and a gale had already brought this fine Victorian church to its knees - when I took this photograph it was patiently awaiting the inevitable Biblical flood and plague of locusts. Luckily … Continue reading Plague And Pestilence In Downtown Halifax

A Postcard From Randal Cremer

There are few better ways of spending an evening than undertaking a pointless journey of discovery. I am not using the word "pointless" in a negative sense - I'm a great believer in pointlessness - but in the sense of an exercise that is an end in itself rather than a means to some other … Continue reading A Postcard From Randal Cremer

Talking To Spirits

Spirit of Art by James Woodford. Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery. 1937 Walked through Huddersfield today and fell into conversation with the Spirit of Art, one of the two grand sculptures outside Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery. She was happy to talk to me having had nobody but the Spirit of Literature - from the … Continue reading Talking To Spirits

From Bookseller To Bookmaker In Two Generations

Whiteley's Corner was the name given to the corner of Bethel Street and Huddersfield Road in Brighouse, so called because that was the location of Whiteley's newsagents and tobacconists and their famous clock. The Whiteley family ran the shop for much of the twentieth century and it became such an established part of the town, … Continue reading From Bookseller To Bookmaker In Two Generations

Strangers 1

Man and Child (1511 Neg Purchase) Sometimes an image can be so visually stunning, that it leaves a lasting impression on you. This particular image is taken from a medium format negative that turned up in a job lot of old, discarded negatives I bought on eBay a number of years ago. I suspect I … Continue reading Strangers 1