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Friendly Fire
For the past 848 weeks, Sepia Saturday has offered themes that allow lovers of old photographs from around the world to share their favourite images. This month’s themes are working their way through the elements, and this week’s theme is “fire”.My submission is this rather sweet photograph from, I think, the 1920s, which I have entitled “Friendly Fire”.
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The Mist Of Time
Those who know the town of Brighouse can have fun with this picture – which I must have taken sixty or so years ago – trying to work out where I took…
Standing On The Edge
It seems so long ago – almost another age. The colours and styles may have changed, but then, as now, we stood on the edge and looked out.
Bare Beacon
When I look back at the pictures I took of Halifax in the 1960s and ’70s – the town I have always considered home – several things stand out. The town had…
Good Taste
Sitting in a restaurant, whiling away the time while the others enjoyed their starters, I began playing with the reflections of the bottles behind the bar. Within a handful of…
St Thomas And The Gasworks (Again)
This is another of those scenes I kept returning to in the 1960s, and I have several versions of it in my negative archive. Perhaps it was fortunate that I…
Here For The Day
This week, our weekly picture-postcard puzzle takes us to the United States. It is April 1906, and the writer simply tells us that his hand is still improving and that…
