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Billy Long-Bongo.

We went to Hebden Bridge Park today 

& took these photos of

 the shelter where Alice Lonstaff shot the bookies-runner

Alice Longstaff

http://hebdenbridgeartsfestival.co.uk/event/alice-longstaff-the-lost-negatives/

https://penninehorizons.org/collections/show/3 

"the lost negatives" were only found,developed & printed this year.
Here is a bookies-runner in Hebden Bridge Park (inside   the  shelter under the canal bridge).1950's

Today we also went to this: exhibition of the photos of Claude Cahun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cahun  
 I read this in the literature & laughed out loud...!

Is this why Megan Markel is always smiling?

young fathers on Joolz Holland recently.

I'm chasing shadows in the gallows 

Collecting what was stolen from me ......

Me and Cath have seen them live twice.
Love them to bits.
great punk values.
we last saw them in March this year. here: are my images of the night.

This month they were banned from a festival in Germany for their opposition to Israel’s oppression of Palestine.
read about this here

the devil's harvest

This week's sepia saturday is themed around "farms"& "agriculture" "harvest"

My dad's family come from the eastern Polish city of Białystok . It is a big (rather primitive) agricultural region.
The first image (a still from a 1990 home movie) is of a conversation i was having with  an old  family neighbour ( he was a tad drunk himself here!)
He is , telling me a rather gruesome story about how another  village local ,in the winter of 1943  got so drunk one night that he tried to stagger home in the dark but ,tripped alone and fell into a well.
After a mass search, he was found drowned  the next next morning
. The Devil's Harvest perhaps....?

This second image I took (also in 1990) on the family farm.......

My Cousin Marak & Uncle Czesek.

Finally , a home movie I took in 1965. It begins & ends with a few brief shots of my Dad & Mum.Inbetween, my Uncle collecting the honey.


image: me in The Blue Teapot in Mytholmroyd on Wednesday. audio: live Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK; May 14, 2018.Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan.
 "Pangaea" (the title of this song) refers to  is  hypothetical supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart........
Finally.I was sad to hear that Danny Kirwan died on June 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kirwan 
I saw him play live several times.He saw difficult times (eg he ended up homeless & sleeping rough on the streets of London.)
Not a good look.
 Here he is in his pomp playing with Fleetwood Mac in Seattle,March 10.1972.
( In the context of this post,forgive the pun. "Oh well" )