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!

 

Wild World (Covid-Mix)

 

pressure drop

This is a Sepia Saturday post; to see other posts , click here 

https://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2020/09/sepia-saturday-538-19-september-2020.html Posting colourised images onto onto "Sepia Saturday" is a bit like Dylan going electric?! "Judas" :)

 

ßénchplayer · Pressure Drop

 

Some more old family photos I uploaded&coloured this week.

Some are of me & my brother Zyg as kids .Plus my Mum & Dad and Aunt Brenda..

Also a couple of Polish Funerals from the 1960's.

Although my Dad arrived in England during the war ( and joined the Polish Free Air Force Battle of Arnhem et al) , he never got an English passport. And because he deserted the Soviet Army ,early in the war, he was afraid,if he ever went home ,the Polish Communist Government might arrest him.

So ,apart from one visit back in 1965 to see his dying mum ( I was with him when we visited her in hospital:the only time I ever met my Grandma)

As a result, his only contact with the family was by letter. As the years rolled on, he/we recieved photos of funerals. His only contact with a past life......

Here are two examples of family funeral he couldn't attend in person.....

it's maybe why I ,in turn,was also attracted to photography.See the 12 colourised photos here:

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Colour2/ 

A photo of me this week in Hebden Bridge with my Sauna/Swimming buddy Haley.A top published London author (non fiction:Asperger) and very nice lass. See all my week's photos here https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Sony-/

ßénchplayer · Up on the Roof

"I'm Thinking Of Ending Things"

"I'm Thinking Of Ending Things" on Netflx is the 21st century "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Thinking_of_Ending_Things_(film)

ßénchplayer · Carey

I Shall Be Unleashed

 click:everything you will ever need to know about Dylan and dogs.....

 

I told my brother Zyg that I was uploading   these:
old,but newly,coloured old family photos.

 He gave his blessing."Why should I be bothered? I have nothing to hide" he said.

A coloured widow in South Parade Halifax 1967

 

I've been full of Cold/Flu:staying much indoors.Sleeping endlessly .....anyway it's given me time to upload & colour more old family photos.You can see them all here https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/COLOURISED-IMAGES/  

And they are all still on display on the slideshow in  the previous post.https://everton.blogspot.com/2020/08/ive-started-colouring-100s-of-my-family.html

One bit of good news.Todmorden Pool reopens on the 9th September.Hurray! Conversely.... 

 

 

 

I've started colouring 100's of my Family photos!

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/COLOURISED-IMAGES/ 

My Grandfather took these shots at the Lake Saranac "Winter Festival" in 1902 in upstate New York.

He lived and worked there for a couple of years with my Aunt Brenda.

(n.b.The audio at the moment is Jackson Browne)

The family rumour was that  my grandfather spent some of his time   in The States "Prospecting for gold". I really don't know about that! (sounds like bollocks to me!) But who knows? 

Uncertainty being something of a family  tradition.....

He later became a Barber in Fife:became  a Tory Councillor:joined the merchant navy and is buried in Malta.He died in 1953. He saw me once when I was a baby. So anything is possible!

All new ones will be added to this slideshow when i have processed them.Check back frequently! https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/COLOURISED-IMAGES/

Big Six Pub in Halifax:

 

Nice drinks in Halifax with Phil & Ken today

 at the Big Six pub in Halifax. https://whatpub.com/pubs/HAL/1017/big-six-halifax-savile-park

 

All Today's Photos here:

https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Big-6-20th-August-2020/ 

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Krumlin 1970

You can even buy this new book with a foreword from Brian Highley :https://bleedingcheekpress.bigcartel.com/product/pink-floyd-are-fogbound-in-paris-the-story-of-the-1970-krumlin-festival

Brian Highley Bio. (Festival Organiser & interviewed in this clip)

 

I went to this! Aged 18. I was working as a Student Nurse at Stansfield View Hospital in Todmorden..(must have had the weekend off). Still living with my Mum & Dad in Halifax. £3 for a weekend ticket. A bit of a shambles, but I had nothing to compare it with, so I was happy as a pig in shit!

My head was full of Friendz & OZ Magazines. Timothy Leary & Co. 8 months later I had jacked in my nurse training and gone to live & work in London (St Pauls Youth Hostel)

Highlights for me was listening to Sandy Denny singing and (god help me ) Elton John.

https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2020-08-13/50th-anniversary-of-yorkshires-first-ever-major-music-festival

 

That handbill wasn't 'who' actually appeared here is a list of who finally took the stage....