The Church of St Philip’s with St Steven, Salford
A panoramic exploration of this delightful late Georgian church, designed in 1825. This Anglican church is still home to regular worship, and remains well-kept and loved. One of the most impressive...
View ArticleDogspace: celebrating the Chinese New Year
This eyecatching pack of giant inflatable dogs invaded the genteel elegance of Preston’s Miller Arcade recently, to celebrate the Chinese ‘Year of the Dog’. It was commissioned from north west-based...
View ArticleLooking out from Pendle Hill
Getting closer to the sky; the view from astride the saddle of Pendle hill. Looking towards the village of Sabden: shot on the first warm weekend of spring, with clouds scudding eastwards across the...
View ArticleThe incongruous pillbox
This is a great spot on the road from Trawden to Widdop. The pillbox on the hill behind has always struck me as being rather incongruous and isolated. Why place a pillbox in, without meaning to be...
View ArticleJack and Vix’s wedding at Stirk House, Lancashire
Jack and Victoria tied the knot at Stirk House, near Gisburn, on 7 September. This was the first of two wedding ceremonies: this was the more formal service in their beloved Lancashire. The second was...
View ArticleJust in time: watching the sun sink behind the hills
Click below for a fullscreen 360° view of the scene in Flash or QuickTime format, or locate the scene in Google Earth.
View ArticleAn early welcome to the Pleasure Dome
The day before the Royal Wedding was absolutely glorious: clear, warm and sunny across the country. I was up way too early, on the train from Manchester to London for work, but had spotted this funfair...
View ArticleMeet the meat… Porcus open farm day
I recently attended a ‘Food Inspirers’ open day at the Porcus farm, a wonderful sixteenth century barn on the moors high about Todmorden, as part a range of activities by Incredible Edible Todmorden....
View ArticleSay cheese! Inside the Leagram Organic Dairy in Chipping
ErrorJavascript not activated Click/tap the image above to view a panoramic 360° view of the scene in your browser. While taking a break in the wonderfully lush lands in east/central Lancashire,...
View ArticleInside Fūlbæchop, Bacup
ErrorJavascript not activated Click/tap the image above to view a panoramic 360° view of the scene in your browser. A view inside the ‘Chop… Rossendale’s best* record shop and another south Pennine...
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