Tag: Halifax

And A Bit In Between

You could probably take a similar photo today of a bus crossing Burdock Way in Halifax, but there was something starker about the scene when I took this 45 years ago. In those days colour was for holidays and weddings and folk who had too much money. For the rest it was black and white … Continue reading And A Bit In Between

Through The Mill To Shroggs Park

This picture of Shroggs Park in Halifax comes from an early 20th century picture postcard. The park was one of the legacies of local mill owner, Colonel Edward Ackroyd, who funded its building on a piece of waste ground overlooking the Wheatley Valley in 1872. The writer of the card, Jeanie, talks about having "been through … Continue reading Through The Mill To Shroggs Park

Up And Down Blake Street

This is one of my photographs from the time we were living in Sheffield in the early 1980s. Blake Street is reputedly the third steepest street in England, and the handrail was an essential part of navigating up and down the street on wintry days. The handrail was still in place the last time I … Continue reading Up And Down Blake Street

A Passage To Halifax

It's goodbye to the fens and the farms, the sea and the sand, and a return to more familiar landscape of mills and moors, chimneys and chapels. Here's one I took earlier - about sixty years earlier, in fact. It was taken looking towards Halifax from Haley Hill, from a spot that I suspect no … Continue reading A Passage To Halifax

Sticking With The Coal Wagon

I must have taken two versions of this particular scene back in the 1960s because I have one in colour that features a rather classic 1950s car. I used that as my calendar image on 14 June 2024, so you are stuck with the monochrome version featuring a coal wagon for the 12 May 2025.

Framed In Stone

Halifax Town Hall framed in stone. Both the town hall and the half-demolished building on Winding Road (which was probably the works of Haigh, Allan & Co, Brass Founders and Finishers) must be of a similar vintage, but when I took this photograph in 1969, one was going, and one, thank goodness, was staying.

Coastal Calderdale

You could easily mistake it for a coastal view - coastal hills giving way to a grey, coastal sea. There's even a schooner sailing off to distant lands. The sea, however, is a sea of gorse and heather, the schooner is the stone built Stoodley Pike monument on the hills above Todmorden. It's coastal Calderdale.

Fifty Shades Of Mucky Brown

Artificial Intelligence can do wonderful things these days. Give it an old black and white photograph, press a button and suddenly it has all the colours of a rainbow. There again, give it one of your of photos of Halifax back in the 1960s and it suddenly has ... fifty shades of mucky brown.

Black And White Balance

Black Swan Passage in Halifax, so named because it was a passage down by the side of the old Black Swan Inn on Silver Street (approximately where Yates's Wine Lodge is today). This black and white photograph does it justice. For the sake of balance, however, I need to take a white and black photograph … Continue reading Black And White Balance