Cockersands
If nothing else, an evening out with my good friend Dave and our camera gear rarely leaves us without a tale to tell. In the past we've almost been cut off by the dark rising tide at Far...
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Blue Memorial
I've been rather critical of Lancaster (formerly the Historic City of Lancaster - surely there's not enough left to merit the title on the little brown signs nowadays) and the way it has...
Read MoreTrainspotting
Rail travel today undoubtedly lacks romance. From the architecture, to the rolling stock, to the sheer presence those magnificent trains had in the British landscape, the necessary evil that was...
Read MoreStorm Clouds
There’s nothing quite like the wildness of the Scottish Highlands in November, especially when there’s a bloody great storm or two hovering over it for the week. The Met Office can...
Read MoreLancaster Lights
I’ve neglected my home town of late photographically – familiarity breeds contempt and all that. But a couple of things came up in the last week that sent me rushing out with the camera gear...
Read MoreThe Falkirk Wheel
A trip to Falkirk had become something of a given each time I visited my Glasgow photographer friend, all so as to try and catch their showpiece boat lift as I imagined it - lit up and...
Read MoreFerrybridge
If there's one thing guaranteed to catch my eye it's a big chimney - there's usually something of interest at the bottom of them, and cooling towers are on a different level altogether....
Read MoreThe View from the North
Long before politicians on all sides were talking up a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ we already had one, manifesting itself in cotton mills, collieries and cooling towers across the Lancashire...
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