Boyd's photo diary. |
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Fri 28 Jun 2020
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This photo was taken in 1963 or 64 on a day trip from my school
Southlands to Manchester Airport. I had most of the names but
this morning from Facebook got the last missing name of Graham
Pennington from Sandra (Halliwell) Dodsworth. The camera was a
Halina 35x. |
David Carlisle, Ian Robb, Stan Hart, Michael Hall, Ronnie Moss,
Graham Pennington. |
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Camp on Great Hill. Steve's first back-pack trip with me and
Dean.
It was part of his Christmas present and the trip was
Mon 27th-Tue 28th Dec 1982 |
Inside Dean's 'The Tent' made by Ultimate Equipment. |
Dean and Steve along Spittlers Edge. |
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This image of a young Sherpa girl was taken in the Khumbu
district of Nepal while trekking to Everest base camp in 1985. I
made a 20*16in print which was part of my Associateship
application panel for the Royal Photographic Society. I was
accepted so for a while I was an ARPS. Then the annual
subscriptions got so expensive I didn’t renew. The original
image is a 35mm b&w Tri-X (400asa) negative taken on a Nikon-F
with 28mm Nikkor lens. |
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Cholatse taken of the same trek as the Sherpani above in 1985. I
was on my way to Everest base camp. |
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Mon 22 Jun 2020
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Visited Carnforth this afternoon to photograph Carnforth Bridge
no 128 on the Lancaster Canal. The viewpoint was the same as one
taken in 1918 showing a boy and two ponies pulling a barge. The
modern image shows a straightened towpath as the canal bank has
been re-alligned. |
Today 22nd Jun 2020 |
1918. The right bank has since been re-alligned. |
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Sun 21 Jun 2020
Fathers Day so cycled to Pleasington Crematorium to
remember Dad. |
Plot 'H' Pleasington Crematorium. |
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Sat 20 Jun 2020
Brindle sunset - Saturday 20th June 2020 the summer
solstice and longest day. This view is from Denham Hill Ordnance
Survey trig point.
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Evening view from Denham Hill trig post. |
Too much cloud to see the sunset. |
Telephoto view of distant Black Combe across Preston in the
foreground. |
Brindle sunrise - Saturday 20th June 2020 the summer
solstice and longest day. This view is from Denham Hill Ordnance
Survey trig point, Brindle with a view of the sun rising behind
Pendle Hill 28km (17.4miles) away.
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Two men already at the trig post when I arrived at 04:35am |
Pendle Hill and sunrise. |
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Thu 18 Jun 2020
Afternoon Dean cycled here on his bike then I got my
bike out and we cycled through the rain to Charnock Richard
Crematorium to Aunty Kath's funeral. Kath's husband Uncle Roy
was there.
Kathleen Wilding (16th July 1925 - 4th June 2020)
Thu 18th July 2020 at 4:30pm.
B Livesey Ltd., Funeral
Directors.Because if the virus restrictions only 15 people
alowed inside. I stood outside in the rain with Dean and Graham
(Doreen's husband) Doreen was inside.
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Kathleen Wilding
(16th July 1925 - 4th June 2020) |
A young Kathleen. |
Aunty Kath. |
Charnock Richard Crematorium in the rain. |
The funeral cortege. |
The hearse and Chris Livesey (standing) |
Aunty Kath's last journey. |
Still image from an on-line view of the service. |
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Fri 12 Jun 2020
Morning drive to Armathwaite to return to the William Mounsey
sandstone face carvings to take some more photos while the river
level is low enough to reach them. Then drove via M6 to
Mallerstang and Outhgill to visit he Jew Stone which is a
replica of the original by William Mounsey carving that stood on
Black Moss Fell at the source of the River Eden. It was
destroyed by railway workers.
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Mounsey carvings. |
Mounsey carvings. |
Mounsey carving. |
Text by Martin Rose.
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Jew Stone was cut and mounted in a lonely spot on Black Fell
Moss. Seven feet high and covered in inscriptions, it must have
been an odd thing to encounter near the source of the Eden – odd
enough to provoke a bunch of navvies engaged in laying the
Carlisle-Settle railway to smash it in 1870. Inscriptions in
Greek and Latin were supplemented with a Star of David –
Solomon’s Seal – and a triple T sigil symbolizing the Trinity.
The Greek inscription reads Seek the river of the soul – whence
it springs, whence thou hast served the body in a certain order
– when thou hast acknowledged thy duty to the sacred scriptures
– thou shalt be raised again to the order from which thou art
fallen. Let us flee with the ships to our dear native land; for
we have a country from which we have come and our Father is
there.
In 1989 a group of local people in which Charlie
Emett was a moving force worked with an Israeli called Shalom
Hermon to replace the stone with a carefully made replica.
Hermon had been an artillery officer with Jewish Brigade,
training at Catterick in 1945 and intrigued by the Jew Stone
marked on his Ordnance Survey map, but not to be found where
marked. By the eighties a minister in the Israeli government,
Hermon was able to help with fund-raising, and attended the
inauguration of the new stone on Outhgill village green, where
it should be safer from vandals. A curiously interesting story,
which leaves one wondering what else William Mounsey did, read
and thought about – and where else he carved his name. |
The Jew Stone, Outhgill, Mallerstang. |
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Thu 11 Jun 2020
I am rather concerned about the current mania madness for
removing statues because some people don't like social values of
long ago. Hearing that Sir Robert Peel may be removed from
Winkley Square, Preston I thought I’d better cycle over to take
his photo. It was interesting to see a group of students
standing guard to save him from the removal crane and occasion
visit from the police to check all was OK. A pleasant surprise
for me was my own private Covd_19 cycle route on Winkley Square.
Sir Robert Peel was twice Prime Minister and was noted for his
work in repealing the corn laws which kept the price of grain
and bread high. The statue was unveiled in 1852.
The notice
adjacent reads:
Winckley Square Gardens
Sir Robert was
Prime Minister twice during the reign of Queen Victorias He was
highly regarded in Preston because of his support for the
Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 and also for his role in the
repeal of The Corn Laws which had kept the prices of grain and
bread highs This statue was carved by the local sculptor Thomas
Duckett from a single piece of Westmorland limestone and paid
for by public subscription. The statue stands on a plot of
ground which was originally part of the garden of Alderman James
German. It was unveiled by the Mayor Thomas Monk on 31 May 1852.
Monk's name was removed from the statue. |
Sir Robert Peel Statue. |
The police checking up. |
My own cycle lane. |
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Wed 10 Jun 2020
Called at Dean's. His new (second hand) motorbike was on
the drive. Its a Triumph and I think he said its his first of
this make. Wen younger he wanted a Triump Benneville but dad
wouldn't let him have one as they were too powerful.
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New (second hand) bike. |
Dean and Bike |
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Sat 06 Jun 2020
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Thanks to Bernie Gardner for the walking day photos from the mid
1920s. The location is Prospect House on Chorley Old Road
Whittle-le-Woods. before 1924 it was the Oddfellows Arms. Bernie
also let me copy the group of men outside the Oddfellows Arms. |
Prospect House today |
Prospect House when it was the Oddfellows Arms. |
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Prospect House today |
Prospect House & walking Day children. |
Walking Day ladies. |
An evening view of St John's Church Whittle-le-Woods
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from Dawson Lane. |
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Wed 03 Jun 2020
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Cycled to Duxon Hill Brindle. On the way called at the converted
barn on Windmill Lane Brindle below compares the views. |
1st May 2016 |
Today 3rd Jun 2020. |
Hoghton Fundamental Bench Mark on the third Geodetic Levelling,
England & Wales (1950-68).
Levelled with a height of 484.1464
feet [147.5678 metres] above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). |
FBM to the left of my bilke |
Ordnance Survey Hoghton FBM |
147.5678 metres above mean sea level (Newlyn datum). |
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My morning walk was in the rain for the first time in a long
time. |
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Tue 02 Jun 2020
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Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895) was a French microbiologist and
chemist who is best known for his discoveries of the principles
of vaccination and pasteurization. Less known is his work in
1857 on yeast's role in brewing fermentation and how mass
production of beer could be improved. Large scale beer brewing
came with the rise of the industrial revolution after the 1770s.
Before that beer houses would brew their own on site and the
practice continued alongside the big brewers. I’ve never been a
fan of bottled & canned beers so have continued to brew my own,
especially through the virus restrictions that have closed our
pubs. I’ve called my latest brew “Plague Ale”. It's brewed in
Whittle-le-Woods and tastes rather good. |
Plague Ale. |
Underwater river photo in Cumbria. Taken with Crosstour CT9000
camera. |
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Mon 01 Jun 2020
Dad died 41 years ago today. I cycled to Pleasington Crematorium
to look at the Remembrance Book but the room was locked.
Presumably because of virus restrictions. Council mentality is
annoying. I told the attendant their website says it's open & so
does the sign on the door. She pulled a face, shrugged her
shoulders & repeated "it's closed". There was a funeral with
crowds of people so the building was open. I called where Dad’s
ashes are at plot ‘H’ instead.
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No - its not open. |
Crowds for a funeral. |
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