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Feb 25 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Halifax (and its Great Unfinished Bus Station)

Saturday 24th February 2024, 12.45pm (day 4,566)

Halifax scene, 24/2/24

Halifax town centre lies hard up against a very steep hill that mostly cuts it off very sharply. But this being Yorkshire, some buildings still manage to cling to the slopes. I imagine that safety fence is needed for various reasons.

This was not specifically a photo of the bus station, which is crowned by the scaffolded tower seen here, but it does prompt me to note that this still isn’t finished after what feels like about two years of reconstruction. The last photo of the old version of Halifax bus station was taken at the end of 2021. It’s now partly in use, admittedly, but the works are definitely still going on… it’ll be nice when it’s done, but will it ever be?

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Feb 21 2024
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Roofer at work (for us)

Tuesday 20th February 2024, 11.00am (day 4,562)

Roofer at work, 20/2/24

A quick return to the same point in space as depicted last Thursday, but now from the other direction. One of the two guys who’ve recently been scrambling about on our roof, fifty feet up — I hope to all hell that I never have to get on it — waves his arse into our bedroom window. But such behaviour can be excused, seeing as the guttering’s finally being sorted out.

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Feb 12 2024
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

Hurst Road

Sunday 11th February 2024, 1.10pm (day 4,553)

Hurst Road, 11/2/24

The first shot taken in Hebden Bridge since 25th January. It’s nice to travel, but it is also nice to come home. Even if the weather while I was away was wintrier here than in Canada — this much is obvious.

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Dec 17 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Castleford, c. 1962

Saturday 16th December 2023, 2.10pm (day 4,496)

Castleford alley, 16/12/23

Castleford is a biggish place (45,000 residents) and I’ve lived not far from it for 30 years now, but today was the first time I had visited. (Yes, it was for football.) I was struck by how unreconstructed much of it was, rows of terraced houses and back alleys like this one. Most now filled with cars, spoiling the ambience a little, but this alley was clear, and with a bit of post-production I think this is not a bad facsimile of how it probably looked 60 years ago. There’s only one anachronism — the wheelie bins — but even those I will let pass.

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Nov 25 2023
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Birchcliffe Road

Friday 24th November 2023, 12.45pm (day 4,474)

Birchcliffe Road, 24/11/23

A bright day, but cold. This was a shot where, contrary to almost all other occasions, I actually wanted a car to come past. The wire annoys, but only a little.

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Aug 15 2023
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More glorious summer

Monday 14th August 2023, 11.30am (day 4,372)

More crap weather, 14/8/23

The uneventfulness of today was largely determined by this crap. Really, what’s the point in facing it? It is forecast to improve, so I just got on with stuff indoors.

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Jul 20 2023
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

Birchcliffe

Wednesday 19th July 2023, 1.05pm (day 4,346)

Birchcliffe, 19/7/23

Another day at home, musing on the existence of portals to other dimensions, as possibly manifesting on the Birchcliffe hillside, around the upper floor of 7 Chapel Street I reckon.

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Jun 16 2023
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Scaffolders on Eiffel Street

Thursday 15th June 2023, 1.20pm (day 4,312)

Scaffolders, 15/6/23

I apologise, as much to myself as anyone else, for the uneventfulness of life at this time. The scaffolders are busy in Hebden however; there were already at least four major scaffolding installations visible from home (including next door), and this fifth went up during the day. A growth industry it seems.

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Nov 22 2022
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Eiffel Buildings, twilight

Monday 21st November 2022, 4.15pm (day 4,106)

Eiffel Buildings, 21/11/22

I’ve said it before, but it’s days like today — spent entirely in my house, day 1 of the latest batch of marking — that will eventually do for this blog, will drain my creative juices dry and leave me with simply nothing to photograph. But there’s always the view. Same comments as yesterday re: the hours of darkness, only today, half an hour earlier. The car headlights coming up Birchcliffe Road, and about to turn behind the buildings, give the necessary additional touch.

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Nov 04 2022
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Local area view

Thursday 3rd November 2022, 3.05pm (day 4,088)

Mill view, 3/11/22

After getting out and about yesterday, I kept closer to home today. But it’s also a nice part of the world. For once, I don’t object to the cars on this shot, which I think help give it a sense of scale and perspective.

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