21st Century North

Jump straight to my photos of Carbeth. I first heard of Carbeth in about 2005. My late friend Mick Parkin was writing a novel in which Carbeth featured, and IContinue readingFirst visit to Carbeth, May 2021

I’ll be going up to Carbeth Huts very soon to take photographs there. I’ve been led there by two separate paths: the one which has taken me to other communitiesContinue readingCarbeth Huts

I had already heard about, but not visited, the cabins at Middleton, Hartlepool when, on a photographic trip with my youngest son Joe, we met a guy in Whitby whoContinue readingSouth Gare Fisherman’s Huts Association

A few years ago, I read a tiny article in the i newspaper which mentioned a community of cabins in the area of Hartlepool called Middleton and, following a bitContinue readingThe Mock Mayor of Middleton

For months preceding its closure, Kellingley Colliery had been in the news in Yorkshire and, when the date for closure came, I decided I’d go on the march the followingContinue readingThe Kellingley March

In August 2018, I went to Pontefract to meet some miners who’d kindly agreed to be photographed. I went to George’s house, then we walked round the corner to CISWOContinue readingRetired miner Jack, Pontefract

I saw a news item about horses being left tethered around Holme Wood, a Bradford housing estate, so I went to have a look. There were three or four horsesContinue readingLads and Horse, Bradford, 2012