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On the Brink
I was transcribing some school log information for a family history society and needed to check an address in Hebden Bridge. I hadn’t been sure if it was Brink or Bank but a quick search turned up Buttress Brink in … Continue reading
Posted in family history, History, Locality
Tagged 1960s, Buttress Brink, Calderdale, clearance, Hebden Bridge, Pennine, Pennine Horizons, slum, West Yorkshire
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January Challenge 2: Why I Love Yorkshire
Oops. This was lurking in the drafts when I came to post today – symptomatic, I fear! This was written on 2 January. To recap, I am doing my third January Challenge, run by #64MillionArtists, where a daily art-related short … Continue reading
Posted in Artsy, Locality
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Woman’s amazing place in history of Second World War
Originally posted on Ooh Aah Droitwich Spa:
A Droitwich woman was one of the first people in Britain to learn that the D-Day Landings had taken place. Marge Barton (nee Payne) was working as a teleprinter operator with the Auxiliary…
Posted in Locality, People, Reblogged
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Riding the Wave
It was a pleasure to introduce a friend from photography club recently to the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, which she’d never visited even though she lives pretty locally. It’s a lovely facility and everyone we have taken there has … Continue reading
A Pocketful of Illusions
In the first stages of easing the current, pretty comprehensive lockdown, we took advantage of a sunny day a couple of weeks ago to pop down the road to Spetchley Park Gardens which had not long re-opened their gates. We … Continue reading
Posted in Artsy, Houses & Gardens, Locality, Photography, Seasonal
Tagged garden, reflection, spring, water
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Woodland Wandering
A touch of Narnia…
Posted in Artsy, Locality, Nature, Photography, Seasonal
Tagged photography, Trench Wood
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Happy birthday and solstice solace…
We stopped for a while today at a delightful poppy field near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It was a delight, and I thought how my mum would have loved to see the blowzy, nodding mass of poppies in all their slghtly rain-battered … Continue reading
Posted in Locality, Nature, People, Seasonal
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Around the garden
There seems to be a seasonal colour theme going on in the garden today… Montage of a few phone snaps. I do feel a bit guilty at robbing the poor embarrassed moai of their dignity with the pansy hats!
Posted in Houses & Gardens, Locality, Nature, Photography, Random, Seasonal
Tagged flora, garden, purple
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You can take the girl out of Halifax…
I managed to come over all decisive today and finish off the mixed-media piece I started a few weeks ago on a course at Malvern Hills College. It was acrylic-based and also I learned how to do gelli prints and … Continue reading
Spring on the farm
Popped in on Lower Smite Farm briefly today. The cowslip meadow is in fine fig! Enjoy…
Posted in Locality, Photography, Seasonal, Uncategorized
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