Gable End, Brighouse : Scanned Negative c1970 A Yorkshire gable end. As uncompromising as a bigot. Two tight windows keep any illumination at bay.
Tag: Scanned Negatives
Cold And Shabby
I must have taken this photograph of Halifax Piece Hall in the late 1970s: a period when the building was host to a rather shabby market and a flock of cold, empty, stone rooms.
Where There’s Muck There’s Culture
Holdsworth's Wool Merchants, Mulcture Hall Road, Halifax (Alan Burnett, 1970) This is a scan of a negative of mine from 1970 featuring a Wool Merchant's warehouse in Halifax. The building is on the corner of the delightfully named Mulcture Hall Road. I always think that the word Mulcture sounds like a West Yorkshire mixture of … Continue reading Where There’s Muck There’s Culture
A Prospect Of Halifax
Halifax From Prospect Street (c1970) Alan Burnett You could base a whole town planning conference around this photograph, or keep a classroom of kids occupied for a month. What colour is the Town Hall? How many mill chimneys are there? Why the large-scale demolitions? I must have taken the photograph in about 1970, just as … Continue reading A Prospect Of Halifax
Back Home
Here we are, back again. And it wasn't Mablethorpe, but somewhere a little more sunny. Exotic beaches and tropical cocktails are all very well, but they can't hold a candle to the fifty shades of grey that you can find on a soot-coated wall of a Yorkshire mill. The Caribbean Sea may be azure blue … Continue reading Back Home
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
Exchanging Ships For Rowing Boats
A walk around Sheffield, thirty years ago courtesy of a strip of negatives I scanned today. The River Don from Lady's Bridge, with the old Exchange Brewery on the left hand side. Until 1961, the brewery was owned by Tennants, who then became part of the Whitbread empire. These days all traces of the brewery … Continue reading Exchanging Ships For Rowing Boats
The Power Of Elland
Another scan from my archive of negatives taken in the Halifax area in the 1960s and 1970s. This one shows Elland Power Station dominating the lower Calder Valley and the new Elland Bypass. Elland Bridge can be seen in the foreground.
Back Street, Halifax
All I have about this old negative from my collection is the hint of a caption which is "Back Street, Halifax"; and even this I suspect I invented 20 years after taking the picture. This makes it about as reliable as stories of Robin Hood written in the 19th century.
