...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Occasional posts on other matters, or those of interest to people less interested in specific creative endeavours
Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week I decided to attempt a walk I have been wanting to do for some years, and visit Gibson Mill and Hardcastle Crags up along Hebden Water. Today was a clear example of the thing it is always worth remembering – when going out …
Reading Time: 4 minutesJust a quick little round up from this year’s Unity Day. After growing quite large and raucous again, Unity day has had a bit of a reset in the last couple of years, asiming to focus again on a more stall and market oriented event. …
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor a Northern industrial town with a history of grime and depravation, Newcastle does have rather a fair share of art galleries. After the slight dissapointment of much of the town centre we ended up in the Laing Gallery which was rather an unexpectedly good …
Reading Time: 8 minutesWe decided on a random trip to Newcastle for this spring’s random couple of days away, for no real reason other than having never been there. I have to say I was not sure what to make of Newcastle, and I’m still not – I …
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe decided to make a further attempt at Hebden Bridge and Todmorden the other day not, of course, not prompted by the aquisition of more Wallace Seymour, but solely by the suggestion of slightly better weather. After something like 41 days of solid rain in …
Reading Time: 8 minutesAround 12 years ago, I started to develop, partly due to my photography, an interest in the industrial architecture of Leeds, and especially the canals of West Yorkshire, and after a couple of smaller walks round Holbeck and the upper parts of the Aire and …
Reading Time: 6 minutesFor something to do, this last week, we decided to go over the Hebden Bridge – the archetypal day out in West Yorkshire. Of course the climate-changed English Weather being what it is after a lovely hot Monday (which was actually quite beneficial to get …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have been so busy this last few weeks, it’s taken a while to get the last of these up. Our last morning in London, we went to have a proper look around some of the new development of the Kings Cross area. After exploring …
Reading Time: 4 minutesDay three of our London adventure, and up bright and early to visit the Tower of London. It is my other half who is the history freak, but I am always up for somewhere like this to explore photographic ideas. I am glad we got …
Reading Time: 4 minutesLondon, day 2. The general itinery seemed to split itself into West End, East End, and today we head off towards Covent Garden and the west end shops. I have enduring memories of visiting Covent Garden Market as a child, though my last quick visit …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI once read an article on Youth Crime, which had a wonderful quote from a teenage participant in the 70s, along the lines of “someone gets a wierd idea and then it just goes from there. As you will know, we like to break up …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSomewhere I have been meaning to get to again for some time, is Middleton Railway. This little heritage line, tucked away in the arse-end-of-the-least-salubroious-area of Leeds is actually the oldest surviving railway in the world. Built as a horse drawn waggonway in 1758 to serve …