A photo by Tish Murtha http://internationaltimes.it/photos-by-tish-murtha/ |
Sunday, October 07, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
golden slumbers
Llyn Cwm Bychan. |
After a long strange journey (through a place I didnt know) we were greeted by a home baked cake the owner had left us..
Crumbs!
Keep checking back here for my photos of our travels throughout the week ( + a few images from last week).https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Llanbedr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanbedr
Doigellau. |
Thursday, September 20, 2018
a postcard of the hanging.
We go see Julie Hesmondhaigh (formally of Accrington) in a play in Manchester next Thursday.
https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/the-greatest-play-in-the-history-of-the-world-2018
Then we bugger off to Mid-Wales for a week in a rented cottage .......i may take photos?
to give you an idea of what me & Cath might look like in Red Saunders 'Peterloo' might look like.....this is one he did earlier...
William Cuffay and the London Chartists, 1842
"The 1832 Reform Act had extended the vote to more men with property
but the working class still did not have a vote. A nationwide campaign
involving men and women called for change and they became known as The
Chartists, the first mass working class movement in Britain. The
People’s Charter of 1838 demanded votes for all men, constituencies of
equal size, the abolition of the property qualification, annual
parliaments and salaries for members of Parliament. Portrayed is a
meeting of the London Chartists in Whitechapel, in 1842, with William
Cuffay, the son of a slave and the elected President of the London
Chartists. He was transported to Tasmania for his endeavours, later
pardoned, and continued to be politically active there."
http://redsaundersphoto.eu/1842.html |
Friday, September 14, 2018
ferryman has hands of stone.
https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2016/08/31/the-bridestones-near-todmorden-west-yorkshire/
Bride Stones, Todmorden
One of the people at Ken's birthday Do last night in Halifax was Jason Foster.A lovely bloke .Above is one of his works. His website is here https://www.360cities.net/profile/jasonfoster
Meanwhile.In other news..
.this STV programme about the late great Jackie Leven was uploaded onto youtube a couple of days ago.
Bride Stones, Todmorden
One of the people at Ken's birthday Do last night in Halifax was Jason Foster.A lovely bloke .Above is one of his works. His website is here https://www.360cities.net/profile/jasonfoster
Jason Foster. |
.this STV programme about the late great Jackie Leven was uploaded onto youtube a couple of days ago.
fish
I'm afraid I will have to go for the 'and surprise us with an old photograph of your own choice.....' option for this week's sepia saturday
On Monday Me , Chris & Cathy went to Harrogate. I had a session at it's Turkish Baths .
It must be three years since I last went! It's still a bit like heaven for me ( 160 degrees in the top room).
On Tuesday we went to see the surrealist photos of Lee Miller They were great . It's the first time I have been to The Hepworth. Very disappointed in the building itself.Its an ugly Stalinist mess.
On Wednesday we went to Crawshawbooth Quaker Meeting House . It's over 300 years old & is the oldest Quaker building in the World.It's beautiful & caretaker Phil told me it has a ghost.
How Cool! A Quaker Ghost......
We spent a couple of hours talking with the caretaker , Phil. Lovely bloke. I hope to visit again ( it's up near my friend Bob in Bacup).
On Thursday I met with Ken in Halifax to drown his birthday.
You can see some of my photo of the week here........
You wouldn't know it from these photos, I suppose, but it's been a very cruel week for me personally.
view/examine these new photos here https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Harrogate-Wakefield/
So!
Dear sweet Sepians.This week I give you the solitary sport of 'French Fishing'........
Dear sweet Sepians.This week I give you the solitary sport of 'French Fishing'........
This postcard is one of a dozen or so similar ones being sold at Hebden Bridge Antique Centre
.All cute kids: All individual portraits.
French fish must be very patient and helpful...........?
On Monday Me , Chris & Cathy went to Harrogate. I had a session at it's Turkish Baths .
It must be three years since I last went! It's still a bit like heaven for me ( 160 degrees in the top room).
On Tuesday we went to see the surrealist photos of Lee Miller They were great . It's the first time I have been to The Hepworth. Very disappointed in the building itself.Its an ugly Stalinist mess.
On Wednesday we went to Crawshawbooth Quaker Meeting House . It's over 300 years old & is the oldest Quaker building in the World.It's beautiful & caretaker Phil told me it has a ghost.
How Cool! A Quaker Ghost......
We spent a couple of hours talking with the caretaker , Phil. Lovely bloke. I hope to visit again ( it's up near my friend Bob in Bacup).
On Thursday I met with Ken in Halifax to drown his birthday.
You can see some of my photo of the week here........
You wouldn't know it from these photos, I suppose, but it's been a very cruel week for me personally.
view/examine these new photos here https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Harrogate-Wakefield/
Thursday, September 06, 2018
oh! qu'est beau.
See here ,other contributions to this week's sepia saturday
Mine is a postcard I found at
http://www.hebdenantiques.co.uk/
"steps" certainly."flowers" i think too? (In the lady's hat...?)
"steps" certainly."flowers" i think too? (In the lady's hat...?)
Thursday, August 30, 2018
the way that you act ......
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Mother, yon lion's et Albert.............
This is a sepia saturday post.
The week's suggested themes are MUSIC : SINGERS : GRAMOPHONE : RECORDS.
I looked through my own old photos and struggled.....the best I could find was the photo below which I took of the Canadian singers Kate & Anna McGarricle when they played Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in 1975.
I got my first record player on my 6th birthday (1957):It was,even then, an antique.A big brass beast:a windup affair! You had to change the needle ever time you played a record!
Fortunately I was only given one 78 record to go with it.It was Stanley Holloway's monologue about a lad called "Albert" who goes on holiday to Blackpool with his Mum & Dad and gets eaten by a lion in the zoo.
were my mum&dad giving me a message...? (we went to Blackpool most summer holidays)
Anyway.Listening to it again now, it's still quite funny.......Northern Humour... Albert & The Lion:lyrics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Holloway
*John Lee Hooker would have been 101 on the 22nd August 2018.(6 months older than my own Dad).Rest in Peace both XX*
john lee hooker – tupelo blues from directors guild on Vimeo.I dont seem to have any other photos that relate to this week's theme.
I did find the above in Hebden Bridge's Antique shop.Not a jolly crew...but they do have an solitary instrument in view.
The photo's origin is French, I think.
They look like they have just spotted a lion......?
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