Superimposed on our familiar landscapes are echoes of the past; Victorian ley lines that were the superhighways of their time. I took this photo of Holmfield Station in Halifax 50 years ago: it was forgotten then, it's lost now. Holmfield railway station was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1878. For a short while … Continue reading Up The Junction
Category: Scanned Negatives
Bobbin Ligging
Smith Bulmer's Mill in Holmfield, Halifax, pictured in the late 1960s or early 1970s. I had a holiday job there once, as - what used to be known as - a "bobbin ligger": sorting out a mountain of old bobbins into pointless piles.
Counting The Chimneys
Even more proof that life existed in Halifax before Burdock Way. This photo has a slightly wider field of view than yesterdays. If you are stuck inside during Lockdown with nothing to do, you can always count the chimneys!
Life Before Burdock
Photographic proof - if ever proof was needed - that there was life in Halifax before the Burdock Way. I must have taken this photograph sometime around 1970: after much of the demolition of New Bank, but before the overpass was started.
Negative Archives : Seaside Drive
A scan of a short strip of 35mm colour negatives taken in Cleethorpes and Grimsby sometime in the mid 1980s. CLEETHORPES : The mud-like sands at Cleethorpes. The line of container ships waiting their turn to sail up the Humber to unload at Immingham. The wooden pier with planks that look as if they have … Continue reading Negative Archives : Seaside Drive
A Bit Of A Mystery
As I trawl my way through my old photographs, many of which were taken more than fifty years ago, I recognise many immediately and can even remember the walk I was on when I took them. Others, however, remain a mystery, and today's photographs are a perfect example of this. It is clearly an old … Continue reading A Bit Of A Mystery
By The Gas Works Walls
I met my love by the gas works wall, Dreamed a dream by the old canal. These are four photographs from the same strip of negatives, which I must have taken some fifty years ago. At about that time I was doing a summer job in the warehouse of Riding Hall Carpets which was just … Continue reading By The Gas Works Walls
Slate-Grey In Brighouse
These are strange times: there seems so much to do in the world and yet we are assured that our best contribution is to stay at home. So what else is there to do other than to turn to the past and set out on a virtual voyage of exploration. By walking in the footsteps … Continue reading Slate-Grey In Brighouse
Entrance Round The Corner
Today's scan features a strip of negatives that come from a film from the 1980s. Three photographs from the strip feature Elland. Two of them show some half-demolished buildings with the tower of St Mary's Church in the background. The buildings, which look a little worse for wear, must face onto Westgate, and they may … Continue reading Entrance Round The Corner
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