I'm not too sure which back street this was but as it comes from the same strip of negatives as the last two, it probably led up to Charles Street in Elland. Such back streets that remain are now breeding grounds for plastic wheelie bins and the stone sets are lost under layers of tarmac.

Another from the same set of negatives shot in Elland forty odd years ago. The image is full of visual date-stamps: from the over-wide cars to the chocolate vending machines; from the telephone boxes to the bin-free streets.

There is an element of stillness and simplicity in black and white photos from forty or fifty years ago. I took this photograph of Charles Street in Elland around about 1980. Shadows shout louder than colours, shapes crowd out distractions.