The Lamp Of Memory in Todmorden Park

 

2 pictures I took. 

"1921 by Gilbert Bayes. 2 small sculptures are of children in Portland stone one called "THE LAMP OF MEMORY...

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1314108

How To Confuse Priti Patel ?

 

My Grandmother Helen

 Who Died in Childbirth, So even my Mum never knew her........

Linda Thompson ( of Richard & Linda Thompson fame) said this was "Amazing" when I posted on facebook today.

Memo to Sir Keith

 

love will tear us apart again

ßénchplayer · trades club hebden bridge

NOUVELLE VAGUE: Academy 3, Manchester, UK; May 21, 2007.

 

If dreams were lightning

 

This Week.

Me outside a window of the Hope Gallery in Hebden Bridge.

 Making an Exhibition of myself.......

ßénchplayer · Making An Exhibition of Myself

audio: John Prine 1972

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Prine 

and a bonus! we bumped into the lovely Bea in Hebden!

Cragg Vale : a diamond as big as your shoe

ßénchplayer · Under The Red Sky

a photo I took walking up to the sulphur spring on Tuesday

 at " Stinky Hole"

doesn't look like me at all

ßénchplayer · A Girl getting a Tattoo in East London ( 1960's )

what's the message here ?

The paint was still wet & I got purple paint on the back of my jacket.......

ßénchplayer · I Walk On Guilded Splinters

lockdown

 

ßénchplayer · lockdown

in Hebden Bridge today

 

No boat's gonna row

 

Just checked my feet and the Levee did not break today!

Below, a tv reporter & cameraman today in Mytholmroyd.............

 

The last few days have been daft down the Valley 

Because of Covid restrictions , the only people on the streets are TV Reporters.

 I have seen at least 3 different channels reporting here . Not here to help, only to "feel our pain" and photograph it !

trying to remember Amherst....

ßénchplayer · Vashti Bunyan

liberal smiles.....

Mr Corbyn refused to have dinner with Trump. but Johnson backed him for the Nobel Peace Prize. 

 This is all you need to know about the UK establishment and liberal politics in general. 

Saying that , today I bought a great big greasy tub of Brylcreem . The first time in 20 years.

 "The Starmer Effect"?

 

Happy New Year

About 13 months ago I was canvassing for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party.

 During Which , In Todmorden ,I remember passing a graveyard and seeing this statue 

I thought i must come back later and photograph it. 

This week I did.