Thursday, June 04, 2020

High Rise Flats 6. Mill Chimneys 2

This is a photograph I took walking down Southowram Bank from Beacon Hill, Halifax. It is the last of the shots on this strip of negatives from sometime in the early 1970s. Despite the view having more high-rise flats than mill chimneys, there is still something very dated about this photograph. The trees hadn't come back in force at this time, and the stone terraces still outnumbered brick infills.

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