Category: News From Nowhere

Slow Train Of Thought From Huddersfield

Someone asked me the other day whether I would ever run out of photos for this Daily Calendar project. I have just checked my Lightroom Catalogue and there are 74, 436 photographs on there. At the rate of one a day, that should last me a further 204 years, which would seem adequate if not … Continue reading Slow Train Of Thought From Huddersfield

The Brighouse Skyline

Oh you can keep your Rio de Janeiro with its Corcovada Peak, you can forget your sandy Dubai and its boastful Burj Khalifa, you can even pickle your New York City along with its Empire States: I always say that if you want a truly memorable skyline, come to Brighouse. The Sugden's Flour Mill, the … Continue reading The Brighouse Skyline

The Socialist Matrons Of Brighouse

Someone was saying to me the other day that they had just been to a Labour Party meeting (virtually, of course) and it had seemed terribly old fashioned - like something from the nineteen seventies. That's nothing, said I in the way only annoying old men can, when I was a lad, Labour Party meetings … Continue reading The Socialist Matrons Of Brighouse

The Ship, Not Auntie Miriam

This photograph, which according to Uncle Frank's detailed caption-writing was taken in Douglas in the Isle of Man in the summer of 1947, features my Auntie Miriam in front of the Packet Steamer, Manx Maid. With suitable apologies to my late Aunt, I have to say that the ship is the star of the photograph, … Continue reading The Ship, Not Auntie Miriam

The Strange World Of Warner Gothard

It's a strange lockdown world we live in where dog grooming is classed as an essential service but the human equivalent is not. The result is that our dog is today walking around like a well-coiffured matinee idol, whilst I look like an over-enthusiastic kitchen mop. It would be nice to think that my abundant … Continue reading The Strange World Of Warner Gothard

No Fuss At The Hall

I was looking through my photographs the other day for one of the old Northowram Hospital, and I came across this photograph, which I took just a little further along Lands Head Lane showing Marsh Hall. When I took this photograph fifty years ago, the 16th/17th century Hall was showing its age; towards the end … Continue reading No Fuss At The Hall

Snow Over Halifax

There's snow over Halifax today.  This might be the Halifax of fifty-five years ago, but there is still snow over Halifax today. Many of the buildings have gone, but there is still snow over those same streets and fields. I might have used this photograph before, but what the hell. Snow comes back year after … Continue reading Snow Over Halifax

Hospital Full To Overflowing

I start the new month with a new picture in my desktop calendar, and an armful of Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine coursing through my body. With almost biblical significance, I was yesterday directed back to the village where I grew up, to receive my first shot of vaccine. The vaccination centre was located in a new … Continue reading Hospital Full To Overflowing

Murder Most Foul In Tenerife

My desktop calendar image today features a photograph I took ten years ago whilst visiting an ornamental garden in Tenerife. Why I took a photograph of the ticket office, I don't know - it was one of those instinctive shots that sometimes works .... and more often, doesn't. I like to think it did this … Continue reading Murder Most Foul In Tenerife