Old strips of negatives can be wonderfully evocative because they provide context as well as individual images. This strip of 35mm monochrome images of mine dates back to the early 1970s when I was at university in Keele and would frequently escape the rigors of macroeconomic theory by wandering the byways of the neighbouring five … Continue reading Capturing Etruria
Tag: Stoke
STREET SYMMETRY
I think I took this photo somewhere in the Stoke-on-Trent area and, if so, it will have been the early 1970s. It's the symmetry that is so eye-catching: it's almost as if the cars are involved in some strange maypole dance around that central telegraph pole.
Dripping With Bennett – A Sad Tale Of The Five Towns
Luckily the location of this old 35mm negative is obvious from the church notice board and the proud lettering over the portico, but if not I suspect I would have guessed it was one of towns that make up Stoke-on-Trent. The church drips Arnold Bennett : I can see Constance Baines fussily climbing the church … Continue reading Dripping With Bennett – A Sad Tale Of The Five Towns