Like totems from a bygone age, forgotten now but once so common they were unseen. Even when the fabric of the houses were well into demolition, these totems remain: black steel and wire spiders against a grey sky
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Half A Walk
I'm inviting you to come and take a walk around Halifax in the 1930 courtesy of an old picture postcard from my collection. Or rather, h...
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I've no idea who the child is or why the donkey seems to have lost its head, but that doesn't matter. It's just one of the pri... -
Y ou can spend too long sat inside reading old newspapers and cataloguing old postcards. There comes a time in the affairs of man when he s...
And separate aerials for different channels. Aerial affluence and analogue aspirations!
ReplyDeleteOnce in a while, I'll see a random antenna left on an old house, and it makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteReminders of growing affluence during my childhood.
ReplyDeleteThey were/are ugly things. It saddens me to see demolition going on even though I know it is necessary in some cases but that was someones home once.
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