Tag: Halifax

My Little Town

This is one of my favourite photographs from my walks around Halifax 55 years ago. When I took it, did I think I was capturing a world that was vanishing - a world of cobbled streets, gas lights and soot-stained stone terraces - or did I simply see it as an interesting composition? In truth, … Continue reading My Little Town

Fun With Pinky And Perky

The Halifax Charity Gala parade some sixty years ago. There was a lack of sophistication and a fair amount of amateurishness in terms of costume design, but they are fun to look back at now. My photographs at the time demonstrates a lack of sophistication and more than a fair amount of amateurishness, but they … Continue reading Fun With Pinky And Perky

Bobbin-Ligging

Holmfield Mill in Halifax - a photograph I must have taken in the late 1960s or early 70s. I had a summer job there at about that time, working as a "bobbin-ligger" - collecting used bobbins from around the mill and stacking them in pointless piles. 

Kind Of Blue

The colour isn't particularly real - I must have added it at some stage in the fifty or so years since I took the original photograph. We tend, however, to think of Halifax back in the '60s and '70s in terms of black and white, forgetting that the mill-ponds could occasionally reflect blue skies. You … Continue reading Kind Of Blue

Monumental Beer

I must have taken this photograph of the Old Lane Inn, Halifax, in the mid-1960s, by which time it had already closed. It briefly came back to life as Dicky Mints 20 years later, before closing again, and eventually, the building was demolished. The monumental bottle of beer painted on the gable wall should have … Continue reading Monumental Beer

Peeled Away By Time

This is one of those photos where I have to start drawing potential lines of sight in order to work out where I was standing (it was an awfully long time ago!). There's Whitaker's Brewery and there are (I think) the Albion Street flats. And there are numerous layers of industry, most of which have … Continue reading Peeled Away By Time

All In A Day – Shibden Hall

And so we get to the conclusion of our little, week-long mystery tour, and the answer is, of course, Shibden Hall in Halifax. All the previous six photographs were taken there during the course of a recent visit there. Most people from these parts will be familiar with the timber-framed medieval manor house and its … Continue reading All In A Day – Shibden Hall

All In A Day 6: Diary

All In A Day: 6. Diary. One Final Clue - "Charles and James Howarth moved Adney‘s mahogany wardrobe and my large mahogany chest of drawers into tent room as also my paper drawers and oak cupboard – moved Adney’s 2 mahogany bureaus into the north parlour (north dining room) – busy with the moving till 12 50" (Wednesday 1st October 1834)

All In A Day: 5. Masonry

All In A Day: 5. Masonry. "Near this place lieth interred the body of Charles, the son of Joseph Woodhead of Shelfehall who died February 28th 1728 aged 19 years and six weeks" No, it doesn't!