Tag Archives: Whitworth

Apr 17 2025
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Art and architecture, Daily Post

“Three-minute scream”

Wednesday 16th April 2025, 3.05pm (day 4,983)

As I’m having the week off, a chance to do highbrow things like hang around art galleries with the wife, who wanted to see this exhibition, Women in Revolt, at the Whitworth in Manchester. For this artist, her revolt seemed to consist of working with a camera for the three minutes it took to record the piece, the content of which can be guessed from the title of this post. Munch did it better, but if that’s the way you want to revolt, go for it, I suppose.

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Dec 27 2022
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Daily Post, Interior

Direct male line

Monday 26th December 2022, 12.05pm (day 4,141)

Family tree, 26/12/22

A day spent with family. My sister Vicki pulled out this scroll before lunch: her family tree as far back as it has so far been taken — so mine too, of course. With Joe also in the room we have here fifteen generations of male line Whitworths documented, ending (thus far…) with him, and starting, at the top left of this image, with Thomas W., born in 1585 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. The two Abrahams you also see here didn’t get out of the same place, and I must add that my father Ian was also born in Ashton (in 1944). This says a lot about the Whitworths, I feel. And as Vicki pointed out — shouldn’t we be running the place by now?

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Jan 25 2021
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Daily Post, Family Member, Landscape, Portrait

Joe gets some fresh air

Sunday 24th January 2021, 12.10pm (day 3,440)

Joe on Brown Wardle Hill, 24/1/21

It’s Joe, and his generation, that I feel sorriest for right now. He turns 18 in a few weeks yet is spending this time locked in a room with, or rather without, everyone else. At least he’s still prepared to get out into the landscape now and again: here, on Brown Wardle Hill, above Whitworth in Lancashire.

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Nov 18 2018
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Daily Post, Sport

Goal number four

Saturday 17th November 2018, 2.25pm (day 2,641)

Whitworth Valley goal 4, 17/11/18

No apologies for including the football shot today — firstly because I like this one, a matter of being in the right place at the right time, perhaps, but the light is good (despite the splodge of flare in the centre). And also because this is my namesake team scoring, in green and white; Whitworth Valley FC. The opposing keeper nearly reached it — but not quite. This was the fourth of many goals that went past him today. And yes, there have only been 25 minutes played.

With this shot, the well-named, but otherwise not very exciting, town of Whitworth also becomes named location number 250 on the blog. So that’s one new place every 10.5 days or so — that is a decent amount of variety.

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