There is a joy in found photographs - a combination of the satisfaction of discovery and the slightly guilty pleasure of historical voyeurism. Take a crumpled old photograph from who knows where. The subjects are nameless and the location is placeless. In scanning the photograph you are preserving it for the future, but, at the … Continue reading A Visual Thing
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More Days
More days - three new calendar pages. The Black Brook runs through West Vale without causing any fuss. It is not a pretentious river: even its name conceals the fact that it is full of Autumn colour. This was taken on Friday during one of our regular Greetland walks. The stained glass window in Cleckheaton … Continue reading More Days
Around The World In Eighty Words : 11. SHIRT
The Story So Far ….. It started as a harmless question during one of those long lockdown days: was it possible to travel virtually around the world in just eighty word changes to my what3words geolocation code and return to my starting point? For a companion I had my six year old labradoodle, Lucy, and … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words : 11. SHIRT
Day After Day
Three more days, three more calendar pages. I took this photograph back in the 1980s. I am almost sure it was taken in Stocksbridge, just north of Sheffield. The pipework belonged to the steelworks and the houses inhabited an hinterland between industry and snow covered hills. This image is based on another pf my photographs … Continue reading Day After Day
Day By Day
The project I started almost a year ago - producing a daily calendar image which sits on top of my desk - has continued throughout 2021, although I don't always get around to sharing these online. Here, however, are the last three :- A rare early colour photograph of mine from the mid-1960s which shows … Continue reading Day By Day
The Rise And Fall Of The Crown
I had an email last week from someone who is writing a history of the Crown Brewery in Northowram, asking permission to use some of my photos of the building from 45 years ago. I was more than happy to grant permission as this was a building that I grew up with, living, as I … Continue reading The Rise And Fall Of The Crown
Around The World In Eighty Words 10. BASKET
The Story So Far ….. It started as a harmless question during one of those long lockdown days: was it possible to travel virtually around the world in just eighty word changes to my what3words geolocation code and return to my starting point?. For a companion I had my six year old labradoodle, Lucy, and … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words 10. BASKET
The Architectural Timeline
This is a photograph of Halifax I took forty or fifty years ago - but I'm not sure which! There are people out there who can interpret the architectural timeline. The Burdock Way flyover had been constructed but the Gas Works and the North Bridge railway sidings were still in place. My guess is around … Continue reading The Architectural Timeline
Place Replaced By Plaza
I took this photograph 35 or more years ago. At the time, Akroyd Place ended in the car park that was such a central feature of the Halifax of my youth. Next to it was the building that had been the Halifax Bowl, but by the time I took this photo it had been converted … Continue reading Place Replaced By Plaza
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