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Gate, Halifax Minster
Sunday 31st October 2021, 4.10pm (day 3,720) Halifax Minster is a great, soot-coated monolith of a church, and its gate provides a suitably Gothic (and autumnal) vista for this year’s Halloween shot,...
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Debi’s funeral
Wednesday 15th December 2021, 10.55am (day 3,765) As time passes, and an increasing proportion of my life is depicted on here somehow, ‘cast members’ will start to be lost. Debi was the subject of my...
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View over Halifax
Sunday 16th January 2022, 1.15pm (day 3,797) The hoped-for walk duly happened — leg 6 of the Calderdale Way was completed, with Clare, over four months after the last one. But we are getting round,...
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Anwoth Old Kirk (Wicker Man reference)
Monday 21st March 2022, 1.45pm (day 3,861) A brief stopover on the way home from Newton Stewart. If I was filming a classic 1970s British horror movie in the Dumfries and Galloway region, and I wanted...
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Liverpool, from the other side
Saturday 30th April 2022, 1.30pm (day 3,901) The other side of the Mersey, that is. Hence, on the (recently updated) stats this photo counts as one in Birkenhead, not Liverpool. But Liverpool is what...
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Overgrown
Saturday 28th May 2022, 12.10pm (day 3,929) St. Bartholomew’s Church in Ripponden is a fine looking building in its way, and its graveyard an atmospheric and photogenic spot — but someone really needs...
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Holy razor wire
Monday 20th February 2023, 10.50am (day 4,197) Almost every time I am on campus I pass by the front of this building — the Holy Name Church on Oxford Road. Today saw a rare excursion around the back,...
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The Sagrada Familia: World’s maddest building?
Saturday 1st April 2023, 5.45pm (day 4,237) I suppose I am reasonably well-travelled but this is still only my third-ever trip to Spain, the most recent being in about 2007 for a conference (hence...
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In Ripon Cathedral
Saturday 16th September 2023, 12.20pm (day 4,405) Properly, the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, Ripon: a big church for a small place. There’s been a place of Christian worship on this...
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Richard Cobden and St. Ann’s Church
Thursday 28th March 2024, 9.40am (day 4,599) In Manchester, but not my usual parts of the city, so a chance to bring some different views to the blog. The statue of the Dead White Male is of Richard...
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