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.

(some of ) my best photos of 2020

View large & download here: 

 https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Photos-2020/

Los Ojos de Pancha

 

 

 

Veronica Fernandez Zimnoch lives in Argentina.She's a Lawyer in Buenos Aires  She's my Great Grand Niece.

Her Grandad, & my Uncle, was  Antonio Zimnoch (my namesake) . He was ten years younger than my Dad. They last saw each other in 1939 when my dad was conscripted into The Soviet Army ( later to desert and join the Free Polish Airforce  in UK.)

After the war, my uncle married an Italian lass and moved to Argentina.

Apart from the occasional letter , they never contacted each other.Although ,oddly , they died within weeks of each other in 1984.

I still keep in touch with Veronica via facebook.

Antonio Zimnoch : my namesake.

Christmas Sorted

Our Mouse

cs&n '68 Ken Kersley in Halifax on Tuesday.

 

The History Of The Labour Party

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Dance Cards

August 3, 1979

ßénchplayer · LOCKDOWN DECEMBER 1

So the swimming pool, Gym and Libraries are back open. That leaves only Gigs:Theaters: Saunas and Movies to tick off my dance card.....(probably other things also, that i have simply forgotten!)

Rave On : John Steinbeck and Miles Davis

 

So i took this photo at a Christmas Bash at The Hebden Bridge Trades Club 5 years ago.

 At the time it looked so "old and Great Depression Era" Looks fairly contemporary  now....... 

I guess we dress up in the clothes we really want to wear?

ßénchplayer · 1971

7.5.1971 Fillmore West

The Top Of Scout Rocks

I took a nice walk up to Scouts Rock this afternoon .

 Here is a photo I took of the ßénch at the top of the walk up there .

 The sun was just going down..... 

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

 

Some of my recent "Walking Pictures"https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/INNOVATION/

 

Lockdown Two

𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘦, 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘢 𝘔𝘦𝘴𝘢, 𝘊𝘈; 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 18, 1989.

ßénchplayer · Lockdown 2

𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝑳𝒆𝒆 ~ 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒎 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅 : video:

 

Trump was right

 

Nigel Farage! who knew?

𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚 : 𝑳.𝑨. 1946

 

ßénchplayer · 1946

'Strange Fruit' the second song here........

'Lockdown Eve': always my favourite time of the year........

 

ßénchplayer · Mr Bojangles

Walker said he was inspired to write the song after an encounter with a street performer in a New Orleans jail. 

While in jail for public intoxication in 1965, he met a homeless man who called himself "Mr. Bojangles" to conceal his true identity from the police. Mr. Bojangles had been arrested as part of a police sweep of indigent people that was carried out following a high-profile murder. 

The two men and others in the cell chatted about all manner of things, but when Mr. Bojangles told a story about his dog, the mood in the room turned heavy. Someone else in the cell asked for something to lighten the mood, and Mr. Bojangles obliged with a tap dance.

 The homeless "Mr. Bojangles", who was white, had taken his pseudonym from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), the best-paid Black entertainer of his era........https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bojangles_(song)

𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆

 

A black & white photo of a Native American girl.In 1894 (photographer unknown) So beautiful .I colourised it. Looks good!

In Occupied Manchester

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/MANCHESTER-22-October-2020/ 

White Riot

  

Try and catch the excellent movie "White Riot" on SKY ART tomorrow (Friday 16th October) at 10 pm . 

Lots of great rare live footage (eg The Clash) of the birth of Rock Against Racism . 

Heavily featured is Red Saunders it's founder. 

Here is Red with Cath a couple of years ago.

in future !

books I'm reading atm.......

"Richard Carter: On The Moor" 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/19/the-sunken-land-begins-to-rise-again-by-m-john-harrison-review-brilliantly-unsettling 

in future .check this sidebar icon for previous audio played here: https://soundcloud.com/benchplayer

 

ßénchplayer · Benchplayer

meeting new and interesting people from Queensbury behind perspex in Halifax

 

Drinking in Halifax today.

Play Detectives ( in Kerkira )

 

Big shout out to Julie who helped me this week with my old Family Photos. https://www.facebook.com/QueenOfClean

 

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/This-week/   

I seem to have cold (again) but unlike some people, I don't make a song and dance about it. I have refused a helicopter and everytime CNN ring me up, I just 'em to "Piss Off"...........

greetings!