Category: Picture Post

Pots

Pot House Hamlet, Silkstone Pot House Hamlet is the site of a 17th Century glassworks and an 18th Century pottery just outside the village of Silkstone. Today it is the home of a charming collection of shops and a restaurant.

Hopes Still In Place

Yorkshire Miners Gala, Doncaster, 1982 : Alan Burnett The Yorkshire Miner's Gala parade through Doncaster in 1982, a couple of years before the famous Miners' Strike. The faces are still confident, the hopes still in place.

The Iconic R

The iconic "R" - the trademark of Ramsden's Brewery - still graces many a pub window in the Halifax area. The setting sunlight illuminating its stained glass presence had an almost mystical significance for many acolytes of Old Tom and Stone Trough Ales. Ramsden's Brewery and its beers are long gone, but the R still … Continue reading The Iconic R

The Line Out Of Town

The railway line out of Halifax, heading north-east, dodging around the mills and factories, plunging under Beacon Hill. It's a line I took out of town a couple of years before I took this photograph in 1970, a line I have taken back into the town I will always call home on many subsequent occasions.

Beauty And The Pint

Sunset Over The Calder Valley. Looking West From Upper Edge, Elland The perfect combination: my senses drink in the beauty of the Calder Valley at sunset as I enter the majestic Rock Tavern, Elland, to drink in a fine pint of Weaver's Bitter.

Waiting Its Turn

This old paddle mechanism is on the route of the Halifax Arm of the Calder and Hebble Canal. The canal arm has been closed for over eighty years, but the paddle mechanism still rusts in the Yorkshire sun, waiting its turn.