I took this photograph over fifty years ago at the Halifax Charity Gala. Even though it was the infamous “swinging sixties”; times were simpler then, and high-tech entertainment consisted of a hardboard bowing alley and some half drainpipes. Continue reading Drainpipes At The Charity Gala
It was the early 1980s: a time when Arthur Scargill was King and the NUM believed it was invincible. I took this shot at a Yorkshire Miners’ Gala as preparations were being made for Arthur to speak. Continue reading Waiting For Arthur
All I have about this old negative from my collection is the hint of a caption which is “Back Street, Halifax”; and even this I suspect I invented 20 years after taking the picture. This makes it about as reliable … Continue reading Back Street, Halifax
Orgreave Coking Plant was like a working industrial sculpture that greeted visitors to the city as they drove along the Parkway from the M1. A couple of years after I took this photograph it became famous as the site of … Continue reading Archives : Orgreave Before The Battle
1698 : Ten From The Archives 10 : Headscarves And Boiled Sweets HALIFAX BOROUGH MARKET (c.1967) One of my early photographs – this one was taken in Halifax Market more than fifty years ago. It was an age of headscarves … Continue reading Headscarves And Boiled Sweets
1697 : Ten From The Archives 9 : The Stone Gods Of Southowram STONE FIELD DIVISIONS, SOUTHOWRAM (1975) Like monoliths placed in tribute to the stone gods that gave these parts their economic meaning for centuries, these fine flagstones have … Continue reading The Stone Gods Of Southowram
More shots from a strip of negatives from the early 1980s. We were living in Sheffield at the time and I think I took these photographs … Continue reading Rooftops In Sheffield
