Footfall On The Flagstones (NA07.4)

Halifax Borough Market in the 1970s: fresh-baked teacakes, brown paper bags full of fruit, slices of boiled ham. Crowds of people - constant footfall on the flagstones.

Open Wounds And Cobbled Streets. (NA13.6b)

Demolition, Dean Street and Granville Street, Elland (1970s)

It is a sight you don't see much any more - demolition on a large scale. These days it's more discreet: hidden behind scaffolding and plastic sheets. This was Elland back in the early 1970s, when the demolition teams left open wounds: cobbled streets without a purpose; bare chimneys pointing the where heaven used to be.

The Cocoa Sheds Of Elland (NA13,6d)

OLD SHED, CHARLES STREET, ELLAND c.1970

In the days of black and white,
In total love I fell, and
We'd walk the streets all day and night,
By the cocoa sheds of Elland.

(With sincere apologies to John Betjeman)

Light At The End Of The Tunnel (NA09.7a)

Is there light at the end of the tunnel?  The tunnel in question is the one under Burdock Way to St James Road in Halifax. When I took this photograph in the 1970s they were called "Pedestrian Subways" and were all new and modern. Times change.

Monumental Shrine (NA09.4d)

The second of the four Dean Clough negatives illustrates the true scale of that mill chimney. It dominates the landscape like some monumental shrine to a dying industrial age. Date? - probably sometime during the 1970s.

Between Past And Future (NA09.4c)

The first of four photographs of Dean Clough, with All Souls and Akroydon in the background. How dark everything looks - the buildings having absorbed a century of soot and grime. I must have taken the photos in the early 1970s, when Dean Clough was poised between the past and the future.

Chance And Old Junk (NA09.3d)

Panning around from the farmhouse, digger and cement mixer, we come to a scene that almost could have been carefully created as a still life. It wasn't however, it was the product of chance and a 1960s clear-out of old junk.