This cobbled way which runs from Old Lane up to Woodside in Halifax, is popularly known as Donkey Hill, although you will probably have difficulty finding that name used on any official map. Countless generations of Halifax folk have memories of sledging down the steep hill as children in winters, and early morning walks to … Continue reading Donkey Hill, Halifax
Category: Scanned Negatives
The Great Wall Of Northowram
Howes Lane, Northowram This is another of my photographs taken in Howes Lane, Northowram around fifty years or so ago. This time it is looking towards the head of Shibden Valley, in the direction of Ambler Thorn. The photograph captures one of the great walls of Northowram, a huge stone structure built to enclose a … Continue reading The Great Wall Of Northowram
Repetitive Overspill
Halifax and Shibden Valley (c1967) As I trawl through my old photographs I frequently discover the same scene captured again and again - at different times, in different seasons and different years. Often this is not a conscious thing: at the time I can't remember having taking the same photograph before - it is only … Continue reading Repetitive Overspill
A Patch Of Land
This is a photograph showing the lower part of Halifax, which I must have taken in the 1960s. There is a mist - or perhaps a fog - clinging to the town and making it sufficiently difficult to pinpoint actual buildings, there is an element of challenge about it. What can be clearly seen are … Continue reading A Patch Of Land
Memories, Thick And Fast
This certainly isn't my best photograph from the 1960s - there's a bit of camera shake, the developing was more miss than hit, and it was a dark, wet, misty day to start out with. But what it lacks in photographic quality, it makes up in part with atmosphere. As I look at it now, … Continue reading Memories, Thick And Fast
Old Photo, Old Bank, Old Friends
The last shot in this particular sequence of negatives from fifty years ago focuses on people rather than places; but still has a fair amount to tell us about changes to Halifax over the last half century. I think I must have taken this picture from Old Bank, which was the cobbled road that ran … Continue reading Old Photo, Old Bank, Old Friends
Rainbow Ripples In The Old Mill Stream
I posted one of my old photographs, of Fletchers' Mill in Halifax, to the Old Halifax Facebook Group yesterday. It's an image I have featured on this Blog before, but it was new to the Old Halifax Group. Several people wrote in with memories of the mill. Someone in particular mentioned that the waste dyes from the … Continue reading Rainbow Ripples In The Old Mill Stream
Simply Halifax
This is a photograph of Old Lane in Halifax I took almost fifty years ago. I was following the footsteps of the great photographer Bill Brandt, who had walked the same streets in Halifax thirty years before that. This remains one of my favourite photographs of Dean Clough - the simplicity of the shapes are … Continue reading Simply Halifax
Steel City Snow
More photographs of Sheffield from the 1980s. Looking back at these old photographs of mine, I can't help but try to identify what has changed, not so much in terms of buildings, but in terms of the feel and the atmosphere. These grainy black and white images are responsible for a lot of the perceived … Continue reading Steel City Snow
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