The Grade I listed Piece Hall, Halifax is a rare and precious thing, an architectural and cultural phenomenon which is absolutely unique. It is the sole survivor of the great eighteenth century northern cloth halls, a class of buildings which embodied the vital and dominant importance of the trade in hand woven textiles to the [...]
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The Piece Hall
8 Comments CherryPie on Apr 5th 2019
A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 31st 2019
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Royal Armouries Hall of Steel
The Hall of Steel is the architectural centerpiece of the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. This elegant steel and glass tower is unusual in that the double-glazed glass panels are fixed to an external stainless steel frame.
The displays on the stairwell consist mainly of 17th-century armour and 19th-century military equipment. There are over 2,500 items [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Mar 27th 2019
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but wealth gathered by labour shall increase.
Proverbs 13:11
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 24th 2019
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Tiger Hunt
This scene shows a wounded tiger turning and attacking his pursuers. The incident is described in ‘Sport in Many Lands’, a book written by H. A. L (Henry Astbury Leveson) ‘The Old Shekarry’, one of the most famous game hunters of Victorian times.
Levison served in the Indian army from 1845 to 1854 and returned on [...]
20 Comments CherryPie on Mar 20th 2019
