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Washing On The Line

This has always been one of my favourite photos from the 1960s. When I put it on Facebook a few years ago, people helped me to work out where I must have been stood - Neville Street in Horley Green - when I took it. The washing makes the photo. It makes my think of … Continue reading Washing On The Line

Photo-Bombers

Each generation of photographer must co-exist with annoying objects that photo-bomb their prize shots. These days it is plastic wheelie-bins and over-large cars, 100 years ago it was probably tram lines. Back in the 1960s it was TV aerials, although in retrospect, like these on New Bank, Halifax, they had a kind of sculptured grace.

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Back Street Breeding

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.

Date-Stamps

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.