Category: Picture Post

Graveyard Art

There is something rather lovely about this old gravestone, standing snug against the sandstone walls of St Martin's in Brighouse. Perhaps it's the almost Pre-Raphaelite design, perhaps it is the challenge presented by the Roman numerals. It stands out not by its size or dominance of the graveyard, but by the fact that it hides … Continue reading Graveyard Art

History In The Sun

What better way to spend a sunny day than wandering around a Yorkshire churchyard, looking for history and finding it under every stone slab.

Stone And Sun

Forget love and marriage, fish and chips, Cagney and Lacey: surely the finest combination of all is a warm spring sun on solid Yorkshire stone.

Monkey Puzzle

The puzzling thing about the Monkey Puzzle Tree (Araucaria araucana) is that it is native of Chile where there are no monkeys at all.

Losing The Thread

I'm not sure of the name of this machine, but generations of mill workers in my family will have known it well. To them it signified toil inside a dark mill; to me it is a shape against the light.  I have lost the thread.

Stained Glass Window

Bottles, jars and jugs piled high against a window in Salt's Mill, Saltaire. A stained glass window of infinite variability.

Empty Pews And Shopping Trolleys

The back of the old Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Elland, taken from Morrison's car park: all empty pews and shopping trolleys. The chapel is a wonderful building, with bits grafted onto the main building like afterthoughts.