Market stalls in Brighouse in the 1960s. Other than the little girl (who is probably just about to become a pensioner!) you can't see any faces. You don't need to. Your mind automatically fills in the missing detail. The faces lined by years of work. The complexions scarred by too much worry.
Tag: Scanned Negatives
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
A Soggy View
I took this photograph in the Lake District more than forty years ago. How the bench came to be in the lake I cannot remember, but it was too good a photographic opportunity to miss, so I persuaded my wife and a friend to get their feet wet. Today we are back in the Lake … Continue reading A Soggy View
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
Spot The Nostalgia
This is a photograph of Bradford Road in Brighouse that I took back in the 1960s (back in the days when camera shutter speeds were too slow to freeze a passing wagon). Think of it as an exercise in nostalgia; a wistful version of Spot the Ball where you have to mark things that are … Continue reading Spot The Nostalgia
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
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