TINSLEY WEST SIGNAL BOX, SHEFFIELD (c1983) The kids these days have it easy: pick up their smartphones, click the button, and applecadabra they have a photograph which is automatically dated and geolocated to within a metre of where they are standing. When I was a young lad - alright, when I was pushing middle age … Continue reading Steam Geolocation
Tag: Sheffield
Steel City Snow
More photographs of Sheffield from the 1980s. Looking back at these old photographs of mine, I can't help but try to identify what has changed, not so much in terms of buildings, but in terms of the feel and the atmosphere. These grainy black and white images are responsible for a lot of the perceived … Continue reading Steel City Snow
Rainy Days And Mondays
Here is another of my photographs of Sheffield taken back in the 1980s. The common feature of so many of these seems to be that they were taken on rainy days and Mondays, but there were still shops on the streets, cars on the roads and shoppers going about their business. This is Surrey Street, … Continue reading Rainy Days And Mondays
Another Snowy Night In Sheffield
Another set of photographs from the early 1980s in Sheffield. Perhaps it was always snowing in winter in Sheffield forty years ago, but more likely these photographs were taken on the same night as the ones I featured a couple of weeks ago. The weather may have been bad, but it didn't stop people going … Continue reading Another Snowy Night In Sheffield
A Snowy Night In Sheffield
A series of five photographs from a recently scanned strip of negatives. They date from my time living in Sheffield in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Something about the grain of the images and the grittiness of the off-white snow seems to fit in with my memory of the times. There really should be … Continue reading A Snowy Night In Sheffield
Layer Upon Layer
I took these two photographs when I was living in Sheffield in the early 1980s. In trying to work out where they were taken from, there are some obvious clues. With the help of maps and archives, I was able to pin down where the Morning Star Patent Flour mill was, and I was able … Continue reading Layer Upon Layer
Snow In Sheffield (1982)
Crookes Valley Park Crookes Valley Park Crookes Valley Park Crookes Valley Park Oxford Street Crookes Valley Road Six photographs from the early 1980s when we were living in Sheffield. The first four were taken in a snow-covered Crookes Valley Park. The fifth shows the top of Oxford Street and the house we were living in … Continue reading Snow In Sheffield (1982)
Bay Watch
Having identified a direction of travel with this sequence of negatives featuring Sheffield in the early 1980s, it should be relatively simple to work out where I was when I took this photo. I've even managed to incorporate a road sign, just in case my memory might need some navigational help forty years down the … Continue reading Bay Watch
Lines
There are enough prominent buildings in the background of this photograph of Sheffield in the 1980s to enable a form of visual triangulation to be used to pin down its location. The problem would be stopping for long enough to set up your theodolite - even in a black and white photo, those look like … Continue reading Lines
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