Nuns.Look.Shrimp
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Category Archives: Picture Post
Backs Then
Ten Years Ago : The Backs And Kings College, Cambridge (November 2010)
Eating Out
Fish & Chips Eating Out, Brighouse (November 2020)
Fungal Reflections
Fungus On Tree Trunk, Bradley Woods, November 2020
A Foggy Night In Fixby
What We Get Up To Late At Night
It is late at night, midnight has come and gone and the Auchentoshan bottle has been tipped a good few times. I am half watching some old thing on the television, half messing about with Photoshop. An image emerges which seems to sum everything up. Hashtag serendipitousphotography!
In The Eye Of The Beholder
Sculpture on the walls of Queensgate Market, Huddersfield 
Queensgate Market, Huddersfield 
Queensgate Market, Huddersfield
Whenever I tell friends and family that I find Huddersfield’s Queensgate Market beautiful, they look at me as though I have taken leave of my senses and forgotten to collect them from the Lost Property Department. Beauty may well be in the eye of the eccentric beholder, but, to me, there is something grand and monumental about it, as long as you take the trouble to lift your eyes and look at the ceiling, the window lights and the sculptured figures. The day when beauty is limited to buildings that have gathered enough dust for them to be old and revered, or have been constructed as carbon copies of ancient styles, will be a sad day for all of us.
Lowry In A River
Now Lowry is hung upon the wall
Beside the greatest of them all
And even the Mona Lisa takes a bow
This tired old man with hair like snow
Told northern folk it’s time to go
The fever came and the good lord mopped his brow
And he left us matchstalk men and matchstalk cat’s & dog’s
He left kids on the corner of the street
That were sparking clogs
Now he takes his brush and he waits outside then pearly gates
To paint his matchstalk men and matchstalk cat’s & dog’s
MATCHSTALK MEN & MATCHSTALK CATS & DOGS Burke/Coleman 1978
The Whole, Neatly Furnished
“The new Cemetery is situated in Lighteliffe Road, and contains an area of about nine acres. The frontage towards the above-named road is enlosed with a atone wall and also ornamental wrought-iron railings, and has two wells for water, one for domestic purposes, and the other for the use of cattle….. The buildings include the Lodge and two Chapels. The former is situated on the left hand side of the entrance, and is a new and plain building in the gothic style of architecture… The Chapels are placed on the summit of a natural eminence in the midst of the Cemetery, and form a simple, but not ineffective group of buildings in the geometrical gothic style of architecture. They are surmounted in the centre by a tower about 65 feet high. In the tower is a door leading into the porches, and from there into the Chapels, which are finished inside with open temple roofs, boarded. There is also open benches for seats, and the whole neatly furnished”. BRIGHOUSE NEWS 8 AUGUST 1874
