2022 Summer with Marina
Every Grandad knows there is a place called heaven where a little girl plays, serving up eggs and buttons, rock tea, and biscuits for the grass. It is forever sunny and happiness rules all day long. Its a place where everything is an adventure but is safe from harm. In this place water drips from […]
1978 Mum and Dad Going to Work
29 May 1978, 53 Brunel Drive, Litherland I’d normally not catch them but I’d been up all night studying. When I used to hear the gate latch go I knew it was time to get up. Neither missed a day of work off sick in their lifetimes. Pointing my camera down from my bedroom at […]
1971 Dad Puts a Bet On
“Dad Puts a Bet On” shows a trip in Dad’s Ford Anglia from Hatton Hill Road to Harris Drive in December 1971. Look out for Allinsons Theatre Club, Hawthorne Road, the Tar Distillers, The White House Inn, The Litherland Lift Bridge, Sefton Street, The Council Offices, Field Lane…
1971 Summer in Hatton Hill
… or 50+ year-old negatives brought back from the brink. These pics are from my first roll of 35mm colour film. I thought they were lost forever but during a sort out I came across them in an envelope marked “for repair”. The story goes that my dad bought me a £2 saleroom camera (see […]