My father would have been fascinated by these tools, as would his father, who probably owned a similar set. My brother will be fascinated to see these tools. Whatever tools were available when it came to chopping up the DNA that went into me made an error, however, as they left out those solid craftsman-like … Continue reading All In A Day: 4. Carpentry
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All In A Day. 3. Visibility
All In A Day: 3. Visibility. By now, many of you will have worked out the location of this week's images - if not, there will be more clues over the next few days. The windows are decorated with what are, in effect, fifteenth and sixteenth century emoji. Whilst some are a little faded and … Continue reading All In A Day. 3. Visibility
All In A Day: 2. Remedy
All In A Day: 2. Remedy. There is something symbolic about this row of jars. The way natural elements and minerals have been extracted, categorised, compartmentalised, ordered and labeled is strangely appealing. I suppose I am a categoriser; never happier than when I am distilling life and storing it labelled apothecary jars.
All In A Day : 1. Piety
I'm calling this little mini-series of calendar images "All In A Day" as they were all taken on the same day, indeed within the same couple of hours. They were all taken at the same place, but I will leave that up to you to work out. I took a very similar image to this … Continue reading All In A Day : 1. Piety
The Fate Of The Horse
This is one of those photographs where you try to line up buildings and, with all the skill of a CSI officer, work out where I might have been standing when I took the photo fifty-odd years ago. I'm not sure of the answer, but zooming in on the background and seeing which buildings have … Continue reading The Fate Of The Horse
Monochrome Memories
HALIFAX POWER STATION FROM CHARLESTOWN ROAD, 1967 : The clouds can't really have been that dark, the walls that soot-encrusted, the chimneys so stark. Time must have paid tricks on the film emulsion, or my exposure calculations were somewhat inaccurate. As for my memory, part of it says the sun always shined and the sky … Continue reading Monochrome Memories
Crowning Glory
This is a sight familiar to a whole generation of Halifax folk. I took the photo from on top of Godley Bridge, but you got the same view from the front seat of a Corporation bus. There was something quite cinematic about the constrained view as the bus made its way up Godley Cutting, and … Continue reading Crowning Glory
Yorkshire Day
I took this photograph of Halifax nearly sixty years ago. I have used it as one of my calendar images before, but that was back in 2021, and, anyway, the rules say that I can use the same image more than once if it is Yorkshire Day. So celebrate this Yorkshire Day with me overlooking … Continue reading Yorkshire Day
Marching, Throwing And Flowing
The fine proportions of Halifax's Victoria Hall, the town's monument to culture. In the 1950s, I remember seeing a Scottish pipe band march down the theatre aisles during a colour slide presentation about the beauties of the Highlands. In the 60s, I saw endless wrestlers thrown from its canvas-floored, rope-encircled ring, and in the 70s, … Continue reading Marching, Throwing And Flowing
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