Burbage brook was used as the feeder stream for Padley Mill.
Padley Mill: Negatives from the 1980s No3.
Padley Mill on Kodacolor VR 200 film made between 1982 & 86
The back of the mill can be seen through the trees and the stream in the foreground fed a small dam (behind the trees on the left of the image) which maintained flow through the mill race.
This was a corn mill from the mid-eighteen century; also used as a saw mill and wire-drawing mill.
Negatives from the 1980s No2.
Padley Mill Grindleford Derbyshire, a former water-powered corn mill.
Made on: Kodacolor VR 200 introduce in 1982 and discontinued 1986.
Found a sheet of negatives from the 1980s.
Water Mill drive converter wheel.
Going through old negatives, I found a sheet from the early 1980s of Padley Mill and Padley woods in the Peak District National Park: Derbyshire.
Kodacolor VR200 film which was made between 1982 to 86, this helped me date them at more than 35 years old.
I have been scanning and converting some into B&W.
A leaf.
A leaf.
A foggy day.
Yashica mat 124G with Tmax 400 at asa 320.
Peak District – Derbyshire.
Rocks: Ilford FP4 plus.
York Minster.
I am almost sure this negative (T-max TMY not TMY-2) was made in the early 1980’s.
The first recorded church on this site was a wooden structure built in 627, the present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. Looking at its history: the site seems to have been beset by fires ! see this Wiki link.
A damp & foggy day.
Lone tree on a damp, cold & foggy North Yorkshire moor.
Steps No4: Coneysthorpe Nth Yorkshire.
Coneysthorpe Nth Yorkshire.
Steps No3.
From my Oman files.
Steps No2.
From my Oman files.
Steps No1.
More alternative visualisations/previously un-scanned negatives or processed files from Oman, starting with this one, made in 2010.
Being stopped from travel and almost locked away for more than a year, I’ve not had much enthusiasm or even opportunity for photography. So going through my negatives/slides and digital files has kept me from going ‘Doolally’, for those not familiar with this word: it means ‘lose one’s mind’, derived from the boredom felt at a British Army transit camp in Maharashtra India, established in 1861.
A. E. Houseman provides a thought for today.
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
My thought for today.
Storm damage.
Storm damage – it must have made a lot of noise when it came down.
Open doors No.6.
Open doors No.6 – from my Oman files.
A Swan on her nest.
A Swan and her eggs.
Is it possible that summer is here at long last ?
Open doors No5.
What’s left of the plaster and stone work on this ruin,
would indicate a rather spectacular entrance at some point in time.
From my Oman files.
Open doors No4.
From my Oman files.
Open doors No3.
From my Oman negative files.
Open doors – No2.
Being watched (this cat was not in the least bit worried that I was there, able to use both my Nikon F2sb and Bronica S2a) although he did move his head when the Bronica shutter tripped; for those that don’t know this camera, it’s loud!
From my Oman negative files – 1980’s Kodak Tri-X
Dhofar coast & Dame Freya Stark.
From my Oman files.
Dhofar coast: the type of coastline Freya Stark would have seen and described in the book I am now reading, also the one from my previous post – see below..
From the big encyclopædia in the sky:
Dame Freya Madeline Stark. DBE.
In 1934, Stark sailed down the Red Sea to Aden and began a new adventure. She hoped to trace the frankincense route of the Hadhramaut, the hinterland of southern Arabia. Only a handful of Western explorers had ventured into the region but never as far or as widely as she. Her goal was to reach the ancient city of Shabwa, which was rumoured to have been the capital of the Queen of Sheba.
Click cover for Amazon link and note how rare and expensive most of her hardback books have become. Ex-library or well used books can be got at reasonable cost: many of her First addition, Mint & Fine used copies are not easily found.
A late Spring – No3.
The weather is still changeable, it was lovely and sunny two hours ago, but prior to that I got soaked while out shopping. Thunder & lightning with hailstones in the middle of May !!, the sun has a lot to answer for with its sunspot activity, only went for cat food.
Hay-ho, good excuse for a glass of vino and the third book of Freya Stark’s auto biography.
Click cover for Amazon link.
A late Spring – No2.
Spring is here – No2.
A late Spring.
Spring is here at long last and with luck, no more morning frost.
