Another shot from that same strip of negatives from 50+ years ago. I’d obviously moved on from Bradford Road to the site of the old Brighouse Open Market which, I think, was where the bus station is now. Another shot full of time markers.
Category: Old Halifax
Rain Hats And Chocolate
Back in the days when the road went straight through, when women wore plastic rain hats, and - if you look carefully - when Cadbury’s chocolate was made from a glass and a half of full cream milk.
Together They Spell History
The last shot from the sixty year old strip of negatives I have been featuring this last week. As the other five shots are clearly of Halifax it seems likely that I took this one there as well - at a guess, perhaps at Manor Heath. Together they spell history.
Neural Halifax
This is a new version of a photo I took in the 1960s. The original was in monochrome, but the added colour and the Neural filter somehow help your eyes as they explore the scene. It’s still a greyscale-Halifax, but surrounded by romantic colour.
Same Day, Same Town, Different Street, Different Washing
Old negatives cut into strips of six allow me to retrace my steps half a century after those steps first climbed the cobbled streets of Horley Green in Halifax. Therefore this, I believe, was Parker Street. Same day, same town, different street, different washing.
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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