Monthly Archives: October 2012
Orwell’s England Number Six: Utterly windless days
(To read about the project have a look at this page / Click on the image to see a detailed view) Subject: Utterly windless days Location: Durham I was at the Durham Book Festival on Sunday and early on Monday morning I got up to get this shot of Prebends Bridge. Down by the River […]
Orwell’s England Number Five: Yellow elms trees looming out of the mist
(To read about the project have a look at this page / Click on the image to see a detailed view) Subject: Yellow elms trees looming out of the mist with all of their leaves dead and none fallen Location: Preston Park, Brighton Let’s imagine for a moment that it’s October 1936. It’s not yet […]
Historical Miscellany #8 – Early exposure / The mirror with a memory (1839)
Here’s an account of one of the first public photographic demonstrations by Louis Daguerre in 1839. This mysterious new process was documented by a special correspondent of The New York Star who had travelled to Paris to view Daguerre’s performance. — ‘[Daguerre] took a plated of copper plated with silver and rubbed the silver surface […]
Historical Miscellany #7 – The wary voter of Andover (1740s)
A story by Sir Francis Delaval. Written down by Richard Lovell Edgeworth In his youth Sir Francis Delavel had a great love of frolic, and now, when he became intimate with me, he related to me some of the adventures of his early life, a few of which I may mention here. Once, when he […]
Back to The Beatles
I’ve always wondered how Pete Best coped with being turfed out of the Beatles in mid-1962. There’s few men on earth who could empathise wth him (Aaron Burckhard, Nirvana’s first drummer, reportedly dismissed after turning up drunk to a practice session is one), but the other day I saw a rare interview with him on […]