The great thing about Sepia Saturday is that it gets you digging. I don't mean digging outside in the cold and wet winter months, lifting shovel-fulls of clogging dank earth; I mean digging through your collection of old photographs in search of a match for whatever theme image that infuriating chap who chooses the theme … Continue reading And So To Bed
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Christmas Shopping In Bradford
We caught a bus to Bradford yesterday to do a little Christmas shopping and to look at the wonderful Victorian architecture that still lines the stone city streets. A few days ago I came across an old copy of an 1893 Yorkshire Trade Directory - before you ask, yes it was lodged up my back … Continue reading Christmas Shopping In Bradford
On Discovering Nita In My Garage
This signed photograph of Nita Croft turned up during the garage clearance. It was something of a surprise to realise that the lovely Nita had been sitting in my garage for twenty-five years without me realising it. Born in 1902, Nita Pycroft shortened her name and took to the stage, upon which she enjoyed a … Continue reading On Discovering Nita In My Garage
20 Images : The Man With The Self-Changing Gear
Advert From 1931 Pageant Of Bradford Programme My life continues to be dominated by the Herculean task of clearing the garage of thirty years of accumulated rubbish, so that a new door can be installed in ten days time. I have managed to dispose of a library's worth of books, a china shop's worth of … Continue reading 20 Images : The Man With The Self-Changing Gear
20 Images : 3. Booth Denton – The Grocer Of Mirfield
Booth Denton of Knowle, Mirfield If you spend your life digging in the genealogical allotments of ephemera, you learn to welcome an unusual name. You can keep your "John Smiths" and your "Tom Browns" : give me a "Roderick Trencheon-Philpotts" any day. Or, more specifically, give me a Booth Denton - which is the name … Continue reading 20 Images : 3. Booth Denton – The Grocer Of Mirfield
20 Images : 1. Don’t Be A Doctor
The first of a series of completely unrelated images that seem to illustrate my life at the moment. This one is dedicated to my son, his wife and all their hardworking colleagues.
Sepia Saturday 443 : The Image Is The Key
The theme based nature of Sepia Saturday always encourages me to look at images as entities in themselves rather than as a portrayal of Aunty Clara, Uncle Walter or whoever. My Sepia Saturday contribution this week falls into the latter category - "whoever", for I have no idea who this particular piano player is. I … Continue reading Sepia Saturday 443 : The Image Is The Key
Fire In Halifax #2
Fifty years ago I took a series of photographs of a fire in Halifax. It was just a relatively small fire in one of the mills; none of the photographs actually show the fire itself. It was the fire engines, the hose pipes and, in particular, the watching crowds that fascinated me then, and still … Continue reading Fire In Halifax #2
Overlooking Halifax
This is a new scan of a negative I must have taken fifty or more years ago. It was taken from the churchyard of St Thomas' Church, Claremount, and shows the bottom part of Halifax back in the days when the buildings were still soot-black and the chimneys that made them so were still smoking. … Continue reading Overlooking Halifax
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