Saturday, November 17, 2018
the haunted victorian pencil and his nanny.
Today I went to The Good Shepard R.C. church in Mytholmroyd .
. A Labour Party meeting.
The guest speaker was an Damian Casserley ,economist who was an advisor to Gordon Brown/Ed Balls in the last Labour Government.
He was talking about the challenges to an incoming Labour Government.
We had tea & cake.
https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/jacob-rees-mogg
Monday, November 12, 2018
Thursday, November 08, 2018
Negro Colleges in Wartime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Emmett_Till
A movie sponsored by the U.S. Office of War Information:made in 1944. details here :
This is a sepia saturday post.
The theme is around images that feature " cold stone statues and haunted, unrecognisable faces...."
The statue pictured is that of "Lifting the Veil of Ignorance" a monument to educator Booker T. Washington on the campus of Tuskegee University in Macon County.
The statue is by Charles Keck , and was dedicated in 1922.
I didnt know of Booker T until I saw this movie . You can read about his life here:
A movie sponsored by the U.S. Office of War Information:made in 1944. details here :
This is a sepia saturday post.
The theme is around images that feature " cold stone statues and haunted, unrecognisable faces...."
The statue pictured is that of "Lifting the Veil of Ignorance" a monument to educator Booker T. Washington on the campus of Tuskegee University in Macon County.
The statue is by Charles Keck , and was dedicated in 1922.
I didnt know of Booker T until I saw this movie . You can read about his life here:
My immediate thought, while watching the movie , was that I guess those Alabama students you see would have had to sit at the back of their buses travelling from the college after filming ..........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
Maybe Emmitt Till's Open Coffin did more for US Civil Rights than any Statue or movie ever did.....?
Maybe Emmitt Till's Open Coffin did more for US Civil Rights than any Statue or movie ever did.....?
Friday, November 02, 2018
it may be someone else's blood soaking into the dust, but i am that dust.
myself & Cathy went to Manchester Central Libary today (2nd november 2018) to see the plans for Jeremy Deller's Peterloo memorial. https://manchesterhistories.co.uk/projects/peterloo2019
The only doubt is the location between The Midland & G-Mex.
It will be built in that cordened-off area that ,during Tory Conferences, Boris goes jogging.
Maybe he will trip up on it?
No more news about my 'Moston Photos' http://everton.blogspot.com/2018/10/peterloo.html
.I guess it will all be under wraps until nearer the 200th anniversary next year?
All I have heard,so far, is that blown-up versions will be displayed in 5 locations throughout the city (billboards?!) i will be everywhere...like a rash.hopefully, [unless i end up on the cutting-room floor......]
a photo i took of the artist Jeremy Deller a few years ago in Manchester Art Gallery. |
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/End-October-begin-November-2018/
The only other things of note today,in Manchester.
(a) I bought my first ever 'white poppy' in the Quakers Lodge in Manchester. Maybe, one fine day, the good people of Halifax, West Yorkshirewill build a monument to remember the six people murdered in the town by British Army sabres during the 'Plug Riots' ?
https://www.breviarystuff.org.uk/catherine-howe-halifax-1842-a-year-of-crisis/
https://markwrite.co.uk/blood-on-the-streets-of-halifax/
(b) in Manchester Art Gallery , a young couple stopped me on the stairs and asked if I minded having my photo taken for " a book about 50 men in Manchester". A black & white headshot....
All of a sudden, everybody wants to capture my image!
( winks ;) to Pulau Pinang)
Friday, October 26, 2018
day by day......
Shirty got his nickname because he walked around with his long hair flowing,
his shirt-tail hanging out.......
I always remember at least four or five young girls following him everywhere
.A babe -magnet!
As a 15 year old, i wanted to hate his charisma.But he was such a nice guy. It was hard......
A nice photo taken tonight in Sowerby Bridge.
It was taken by 'Shirty 'Whitehead's daughter,Ellie, (she works behind the bar at The Shepards Rest) It was her birthday yesterday......
Shirty was in the same class as me at school.
his shirt-tail hanging out.......
I always remember at least four or five young girls following him everywhere
.A babe -magnet!
As a 15 year old, i wanted to hate his charisma.But he was such a nice guy. It was hard......
A nice photo taken tonight in Sowerby Bridge.
It was taken by 'Shirty 'Whitehead's daughter,Ellie, (she works behind the bar at The Shepards Rest) It was her birthday yesterday......
Shirty was in the same class as me at school.
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