#ICYMI this week a new - FREE! - article was published. It looks at the Railway Work, Life & Death project, and how we work. #Railway200 Read it now!

Planning to try organise a public screening for the 75th anniversary of the première, which I put in February 2027

Absolutely tremendous piece here. "Incidental sound for the transition scenes was provided by the poet Norman MacCaig, who whistled refrains of a variety of the songs.." MacCaig was a teacher back then, but it's other (Norton Park) teachers, Jim Ritchie in particular, who brought this all about.

Two of a group of albumen prints I've acquired with Bunyan/Elstow associations. Internal dating indicates 1874 to 1881. No photographer, but the likelihood is that these are the work of George Downes d. 1879. (1)

'Miss Ward, the greatest of all Lady Divers' from an 1889 stereo by Underwood & Underwood. A Pressphotoman piece about where it was taken and how it became a big seller. pressphotoman.com/2025/08/25/m...

Caroline Street, Saltaire, on a dark wet day in 2023

The Dunbar Street Fire Tower in clean modern brick, and, on the other side of the street, three shots of the paraphanalia and graffiti pertaining to the rear entrancrs to shops. Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.

As Bluesky's image posting is having difficulties today, even to the extent of site thumbnails, here are some photographs of Leeds taken last week on my image site: www.lixmount.com/England/A-Ne...

Kirkstall Abbey. James Walker Oxley 1855; my shot 2025. More shots from Friday's visit to the Abbey at www.lixmount.com/England/Kirk...

Some shots from Bradford and Harrogate during last week's heatwave: www.lixmount.com/England/Brad...

Shots from a visit to the alabaster tombs at Harewood House (and a couple of the house itself) www.lixmount.com/England/Hare...

Shots from a visit to the alabaster tombs at Harewood House (and a couple of the house itself) www.lixmount.com/England/Hare...

Some shots from Bradford and Harrogate during last week's heatwave: www.lixmount.com/England/Brad...

Kirkstall Abbey. James Walker Oxley 1855; my shot 2025. More shots from Friday's visit to the Abbey at www.lixmount.com/England/Kirk...

As Bluesky's image posting is having difficulties today, even to the extent of site thumbnails, here are some photographs of Leeds taken last week on my image site: www.lixmount.com/England/A-Ne...

A few random snaps from 2017/2018

Early 2020..

I've found Derek Sivers' recommendations very useful - sive.rs/ti

Four from Sunday: a walk from Newhaven/Trinity to the site of Leith Fort.

Missed the "Eyewitness" exhibition of Hungarian photography in 2011 & finally have the stunning catalogue:

We're excited to share our updated Side website! Check it out for news on events and exhibitions, explore the AmberSide Collection, plus our new blog that looks at some of our iconic images and projects. sidegallery.co.uk

My interview with photographer Gregory Halpern is out now on C4 Journal! I met Gregory during his show at Huxley Parlour last November. In this interview, we discuss ‘King, Queen, Knave’, his latest title published by MACK. Read the full conversation here: c4journal.com/king-queen-k...

'I hope you are keeping up your Shorthand. How did you enjoy the holiday at Gorleston on Sea.’ Official Sir Isaac Pitman postcard, sent 1904. #PitmanShorthand

Painting by Ida Lorentzen ‘Rear Window’ 2022. Oil on canvas. Size 150 × 120 cm.

'Jack's Coffee House, Dean Street' (from 'Relics & Memorials of London City', 1910) by James Ogilvy

I ended up listening to century-old #nightingales in the garden until dusk fell, mingled with the sound of the evening #birds. No words for how beautiful and poignant. (The reverse of this 78 is a recording of dawn birdsong. I guess I should get up early one morning...)

I have written a blog about my photography over this past year - if you have time to read it, I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks in advance. deborahparkinphotography.blogspot.com

'Friday Night', Hammersmith (1958) by Ruskin Spear (De Beers Art Collection)

This book of instruction for newly qualified legal clerks in 1727, discovered yesterday by @lixmount.bsky.social at the @signetlibrary.bsky.social has several detailed pages on how to ‘write well’. Anyone who has toiled over a page of Secretary Hand might find it of interest..

I've been to this and it's absolutely tremendous. It's all based on fresh research, and uses a fabulously rich mix of artifacts, art and illustration, books, pamphlets etc. to tell its story. And it's in the beautiful Georgian House in Charlotte Square! Well worth the visit.

I have been taking Polaroids of my garden and the views from it and divided them into seasons - an ongoing project that started a few years ago and here are a few from Winter on the Pennines.

Very grateful for the prize and excited to share this article!

'Jason (Curtain)', Tulse Hill (2021) by Mike Silva tate.org.uk/art/artworks/silva-jason-curtain-t15886

📚Explore the storied lives of Suffolk's parochial library collections in a new blog post: 'Non mihi sed omnibus: Suffolk’s Last Parochial Libraries' by current MLitt student @standrewshist.bsky.social Emily Wildish.📚 #bookhistory #libraryhistory #collectionhistory ustc.ac.uk/news/non-mih...

Something excellent, and, for Edinburgh, a very different treatment from the usual. As a fellow sufferer of Fuji autofocus, I'd like to know more about the settings!

Friday book post - the papers and catalogue accompanying the Robert Adamson exhibition at Museum Ludwig / Agfa-Photo-Historama in Cologne, 2000. Wonderful Steidl reproductions, some images new to me. The papers are essential for the understanding of early Adamson scholarship in Germany c.1900-1965.

Bad choices and dangerous friends: the fugitive promise of George Gascoigne

Have you ever wondered who were the last pagans in Europe? Well, there’s now an exhaustive book on the subject! Today is the official publication day for ‘Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples’ 📚 www.cambridge.org/universitypr...

It was amazing, one of those opportunities that you just have to go with. I was fascinated by the bridge in those days. Also at that time there was quite a lot left of Wormit station, nearby. I also went over the bridge by train - you could open the windows then for a better view.

Ah, yes, I recognise where that is. I was invited into the signal box. I walked out along the bridge a little way, the signalman must have suggested it, I would never have asked. I think he said something like 'come back in a quarter of an hour' - a train due presumably.

By the Tay Bridge South signal box, looking towards Dundee. My photo June 1974.

In the early 80s, a rubbish-picker stumbled upon something incredible: a garbage bag filled with 2,042 35mm color slides and 102 rolls of carefully labeled b&w film capturing a seminal moment in SF counterculture c. 1966-1970. The photographer remains unknown.. sfstandard.com/2025/01/12/l...

Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien and co. on the first official Bloomsday, filmed by John Ryan www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0gN...

This is tremendous research!

NEW VIDEO! How did the wool industry transform Leeds into the city we know today? I explore the story of Leeds' textile industry, from medieval times to modern day ⬇️ youtu.be/cEAYsJqS5y8

A nice end to the week to receive a copy of this in the post. Congratulations to the editors, @themedievaldrk.bsky.social and Melek Karataş, and thanks again for allowing my small contribution!

I'm extremely pleased to announce that my work has been chosen for preservation in the BFI Digital Collections! It's part of a project to document and preserve online moving images and five of my videos have been archived. Search here: collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/s...