Pavement Puddles

Pavement Puddle, Huddersfield : 5 March 2019 The weather forecast for today is sunny intervals, with heavy rain showers and great thick Yorkshire stone kerbs

Where There’s Muck There’s Culture

Holdsworth's Wool Merchants, Mulcture Hall Road, Halifax (Alan Burnett, 1970) This is a scan of a negative of mine from 1970 featuring a Wool Merchant's warehouse in Halifax. The building is on the corner of the delightfully named Mulcture Hall Road. I always think that the word Mulcture sounds like a West Yorkshire mixture of … Continue reading Where There’s Muck There’s Culture

History Sticks To The Inconsequential

Whenever I get a new camera - in this case a new Smartphone - I can't resist taking a few photographs just to see what it is like in various circumstances. The subject matter of such shots is entirely inconsequential - it is whatever happens to be there in front of me at the time. … Continue reading History Sticks To The Inconsequential

A Prospect Of Halifax

Halifax From Prospect Street (c1970) Alan Burnett You could base a whole town planning conference around this photograph, or keep a classroom of kids occupied for a month. What colour is the Town Hall? How many mill chimneys are there? Why the large-scale demolitions? I must have taken the photograph in about 1970, just as … Continue reading A Prospect Of Halifax

Unnatural Events In Downtown Huddersfield

I am no animal expert, but that doesn't look like a deer to me. If it is, it is the most unnatural deer to trot around the deer parks of Huddersfield. And whilst we are talking about unnatural, this photograph was taken in February when the weather is supposed to be cold, dark and dismal. … Continue reading Unnatural Events In Downtown Huddersfield

Some Final Thoughts On Cruise Ships

10 From The Caribbean 10. Some Final Thoughts On Cruise Ships They are big, they are not particularly beautiful, and they dominate the landscape. They deliver hoards of tourists, who flock up and down the main streets like mill-mucky pigeons on an outing to Harrogate. They turn travellers into tourists and then tourists into trippers. … Continue reading Some Final Thoughts On Cruise Ships

Looking Good In Barbados

10 From The Caribbean : 9. Sunbury House, Barbados Sunbury House is an old plantation house on the island of Barbados. The grounds are tropical, the interior is full of period furniture, the story of the house, its owners and its workers is fascinating ... but it was the curious collection of old spectacles, optical … Continue reading Looking Good In Barbados