A Watery Pint

 

This is a “Found Photo” - just one of the hundreds of old photos in an album I recently bought for the price of a couple of pints. Those pints couldn’t have been enjoyed at the Dun Bull Hotel - which is featured in this 1920s photo - as it was demolished in 1935 when Mardale Green was flooded to create Haweswater Reservoir.

Birdseye

 

Twelve From Morley

 

The Visual Date-Stamp

 

My parents, Albert and Gladys. The photograph dates from around 1934 or 35, a year or two before they were married. My father was a keen cyclist and my mother was a less keen passenger on the back of their tandem. A great photo, but the bonus is the couple walking in the background providing us with a kind of visual date stamp.

Photo-Bombers

Each generation of photographer must co-exist with annoying objects that photo-bomb their prize shots. These days it is plastic wheelie-bins and over-large cars, 100 years ago it was probably tram lines. Back in the 1960s it was TV aerials, although in retrospect, like these on New Bank, Halifax, they had a kind of sculptured grace.

The Times May Or May Not Be Changing (Depending On Where You Are Standing)

 

Stayed In And Took Poison

 

What Three Words?

 

Stone And Sparrow

 

... and the south-west

 

Up The Junction