Hydn

I went to Hydn's Funeral Mass in Royton today.

 A Packed Church .

His friends from Territorial Army ( he served 17 years ,including The  Falklands )

which i never knew..

They Played " The Last Post"at the end of a 90 minutes service......

very moving.

G𝐚r𝐲 𝐂l𝐚r𝐤 𝐉r.

i think i might buy a hat next week.......think of it as a 'Late Easter Bonnet'.... n.b. this video from 11th April 2025

Manchester 17th april

𝐇𝐘𝐃𝐍 Remembering of our good friend Hydn who died a few days ago, I took these random photos in Manchester this afternoon.... 𝐀 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐩-𝐔𝐩 𝐏𝐢𝐬𝐬-𝐔𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦

ken kersley halifax mixenden
 Last Men Standing: It's worth saying that Bob from Bacup was also diagnosed with Cancer 2 weeks ago & Big Mark from Rochdale died recently ( also Cancer )  Hard Times.........

 

Hydn James Mason

 

my facebook this week........

 

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐬

 

New haircut in Hebden Bridge

My Back Pages,

Meanwhile..today i uploaded more of my old photos onto Instagram here

https://www.instagram.com/tonyzimnoch/

 

via GROK !

 

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

latest photo of Judas!

 

Just a wee slideshow  of some of my photos this week.

In Halifax & Hebden Bridge.

Variously .....My old workplace in Halifax being demolished : at a Ted Hughes exhibition : after watching the new ( superb!) Bob Dylan film: a pretty blond lass painting her windowsill.....

Mark Tyndall from Rochdale

I am sad to report news of the death of Mark Tydall.

 I heard via Jim Stridgen that he died a couple of weeks ago of Cancer. he was 62 .

 His funeral was last week.

 I first met Mark in the mid-80's at Rochdale Turkish Baths.

 A good lad.No harm in him at all. Very sad news

my " end of the year " message :)

 

The Three Wise Men ( Biblical )

my wish for 2025

 

iglu

 Doing daft stuff ( again) 

This time at iglu in Hebden Bridge--->   details

Crash On The Levee

Storm Bert in Todmorden

 

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑

 

Last night I finished reading this cracking book . I can highly recommend. R.J. Ellory's " The Bell Tower" (2024 )

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204024382-the-bell-tower

 A very well written and easy to read style ( think Stephen King without any of his Acid Flashbacks! ) 

It's set on Death Row in Florida Maybe not the best book in the world , but still the best American Crime Novel i have read since James Ellroy.'s " The Black Dahila" 

 Talking of James Ellroy, i include a photo i took of him ten years ago at a Talk in Manchester. More photos here of that night are 

HERE

Bluesky

 Yesterday i joined Bluesky ( a newish rival to Musk's twitter )

Visit me here https://bsky.app/profile/zimmy88.bsky.social

i now have more Platforms than Kings X Station.

A Kupeyyah

In the Post this morning.From my Niece Katy

 She  sent me this   Kupeyyah from her latest journey to Qatar

 

Balloon

If you love the Blue Nile, Prefab Sprout, Go-Betweens, Michael Head and all that good stuff, then you should give this a listen..........

 

Read about Balloon here

Bob Dylan in Prague singing :"Desolation Row" : 4th October 2024

 

this week

This week i mainly just got a new Bus Pass & then went for a drink in Hebden Bridge 

Or, perhaps, it was the other way round...?

 

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝟕𝟐 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞

 

After going to the GP's this morning I then went to Hebden Bridge Library & also got my haircut at Nathan's Barbers Shop.

I must be the coolest seventy-two year old in Yorkshire! I mean , being able to drive while reading Japanese Literature is something they just don't teach modern kids to do at Driving School.

Me by The Serpentine in London 2010?

 

𝐦y O𝐥d P𝐡o𝐭o P𝐫o𝐣e𝐜t c𝐨n𝐭i𝐧u𝐞s a𝐭 ... https://www.instagram.com/tonyzimnoch/

18 years ago

 

18 years ago in Manchester. 

All i remember about this day is having toothache and a hangover. 

This was in the days when Blogging was as Cutting-Edge as Podcasting is now.

The Small Faces

 I just came across this video on twitter just now. Probably of no great interest to anybody else , but anyway, I post it to preserve it . It's The Ruskin Arms in East Ham London . Now sadly ( like so many other pubs) boarded up .

When I lived in East London back in the 70's it was my Local ( i lived the next street down). n.b. i bought my Operation Julie supplies there.......

The Landlord then was the father of one of The Small Faces and, in the 60's , the band played their first gigs there .

Instagram

Visit my Instagram page of old photos here  

This was taken in The Highlands of Scotland near John O'Groats. Aged 17 and with a head full of Van Morrison & The Incredible String Band!

 

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My facebook page tonight. For more raw images of the day click here

Thanks for your email today Don  ( 6 weeks in the USA!) .I will reply during the week ( too pissed atm!)

Champion Jack Dupree

I shared my 72nd Birthday today at Dean Clough Art Gallery with the ghost of Halifax's Blues legend Champion Jack Dupree. 

Jack's Bio

Jack's Biography = born in New Orleons ( to a part African American and Cherokee mother & father from the Congo .) died in Germany:parent's murdered by KKK when he was 2.: he then lived in the same orphanage as Louis Armstrong : WW2 a Japanese POW for 2 years : smoking dope with Eric Clapton on Ovenden Way Halifax :earlier was a US boxing champion (hence his nickname)etc etc An amazing life. Reading Jack's Biography above, what it doesn't tell you is that while Jack lived in Halifax his Postman was my late friend Phil Davidson who died a few months ago !

Sauna in Mytholmroyd

Final Farewell Tour

We met up in Rochdale this afternoon for what I had billed as " Hydn's Last Drink" .

But it went so well that we will probably be having another ( in Manchester) in the coming weeks! 

A bit like one of those aging Rock Bands who do a " Final Farewell Tour" only to reappear soon afterwards to do another one!

 Anyway ,Hydn was on fine form : a pleasure to be with. He even joked that he was a bit upset about just having to buy a new freezer, knowing that he won’t get full use of it.

with Jimmy Stridgen