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Sheldon

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The village of Sheldon stands a short distance from Magpie Mine. It’s a pretty and picturesque place, although these days slightly blighted by the number of cars parked on the streets, I think. But that’s progress, and the inhabitants have a need for transport.

Pictured below are the village pub, The Cock and Pullet, the village hall, a nativity scene including two tyre snowmen (it was just after Christmas when these pictures were taken), some cottages, and a wreath on the church gate.

Sheldon also has an interesting local story:

Sheldon has a curious tale in its history. In 1601 a duck was seen by a local resident to fly into a hollow tree and not to come out again. It gained the name from then on as the Duck Tree. Some three hundred years later when the tree was felled and sawn into planks, each plank contained the life-sized outline of a duck. The wood was reputedly used to make a mantelpiece for Greatbach Hall in Ashford.

Cock & Pullet
Village hall
Monochrome festivities
Village houses
Wreath

Nikon F80, Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD on Kodak Tri-X. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°.

Taken on 27 December 2025

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The Chapel of Our Lady on Rotherham Bridge

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The Chapel of Our Lady on Rotherham Bridge is one of only five surviving bridge chapels in the UK. It dates to 1483 and survived as a chapel for 64 years before being closed during The Act of Dissolution in 1547. In 1569 it became an almshouse until, just over 200 years later in 1779 it became a dwelling for the deputy constable, and a jail. 109 years after that it became a tobacconists / newsagents.

In 1901 a petition by Rotherham residents was raised to restore the building back to a place of worship. Sir Charles Stoddart purchased the tobacconist’s business twelve years later, subsequently closed the shop, and proposed to restore the building. However, Sir Charles passed away before the repairs could be completed. In his will, he left £500 to be invested, with the income intended to support the maintenance of services in the Chapel on the Bridge.

Following the end of World War One, the work was completed, and the chapel was re-consecrated in 1924. Services are still held there to this day.

Chapel on the Bridge
Chapel on the Bridge-2

Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.

Taken on 7 September 2025

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The Bridge Inn

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Built in the 1930s using stone from the original Bridge Inn (dating to the 1700s), this Rotherham town centre pub is now (like so many others) permanently closed.

It’s not a pub I’ve ever visited and I only photographed it as I was visiting the new cinema on the other side of the road, and the light was nice. Despite being built in the 1930s, the use of the older stone makes the building look much older.

The X-Fujinon 50mm lens is pretty sharp!

The Bridge Inn
The Bridge Inn-2

Fujica STX-1 & X-Fujinon 50mm f/1.9 FM on Agfa APX 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10.5mins @ 20°.

Taken on 7 September 2025

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Outside The Minerva

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I thought I’d finished posting my pictures from the day-trip I took to Hull a few months back but then I remembered this lone medium-format picture I took.

I’d planned on shooting more pictures with this camera – my 1950s Zeiss folder – but when I retrieved it from my bag after I took this shot I noticed that the film advance knob had fallen off! Luckily the bits were in the bottom of the bag but, without a screwdriver, I was unable to make a repair. Later, when I got home I put it together again, but something wasn’t right – the dial was wobbly in a way it hadn’t been before, so I feared that I might have lost some of the mechanism after all.

Then, a few days later, I decided to take another look in the camera bag and there, squeezed right under the padding at its base. was the final missing piece of camera. After fixing it back together properly I then shot the rest of the film on a couple of further outings – although there were further problems to come… I’ll reveal those in a future post.

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Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 on Fujifilm Pro 400H. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 9 August 2025

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A pub with a shelter

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Many pubs have shelters for their customers who choose to sit or stand outside the premises with their drinks, often in the form of gazebos or large umbrellas. The Hop Monkey in Halifax has taken things to a whole new level though, placing a shelter over the entire pub…

The Hop Monkey

Yashicamat 124G & Ilford XP2 Super. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 16 August 2025

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More Lincoln scenes

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Another batch of Kodak Pro Image photos from Lincoln today. Again, I’m really enjoying the colours from this roll.

Today has been a nice day. I started off with a bit of a lie in (nothing to extravagant – the days of laying in bed all morning are a thing of the past, my free time is too precious these days – but staying in bed till 8:30 is still a joy).

Later in the morning my wife and I went to view a bungalow (as we are planning on moving house). The property had a lot of potential, but would no be somewhere we could move straight into as it has too many things that would need to be done to make it liveable. It would cost quite a lot of money to carry out the necessary work too. The house was vacant and we were told that the lady who originally owned it had moved into care and the council was now selling the house to pay for this. While all the furniture had been removed, there were still a few small signs of the person who had lived there before, including a certificate of her husband’s retirement from his job on one of the walls, beside which was stuck a sheet of paper listing names and birthdays of people the owner had once known. It was quite sad to see these small reminders of lives now moved on.

Then, this afternoon, we went strawberry picking. The weather had forecast rain showers, but this changed and it was a lovely warm day with blue skies scattered with fluffy lumps of cumulus. We got three large punnets of strawberries, most for us, but also for my day, my sister-in-law, and our niece. I snuck a few berries while picking them and they were delicious. I’ll enjoy more of them this evening with a bit of cream.

It’s very nice to have a day like this.

Terrace
Castle Hill Club
Eastgate Post Office
Man on the roof
Background cathedral

Olympus OM-10, Zuiko Auto-S 35mm f/2.8 & Kodak Pro Image. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted using Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 1 March 2025

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From beer to bikes

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This curiously shaped building on Queen’s Road has been a bicycle repair shop for a number of years now, but it’s original purpose, until 2012, was as a public house – The Earl of Arundel and Surrey Hotel.

The building has a small date plaque on the front denoting that the building dates from1879 and also used to have a sign affixed which read:

“These premises have a unique claim to fame as the only remaining official pound house in Sheffield. It was built in the late 1880’s on land belonging to the Duke of Norfolk who was also the Earl of Arundel and Surrey and Lord of what was then still the Manor of Sheffield. These premises inherited the manorial rights of being a pound house. The Landlord was known as the Pinder and he had the right to round up and hold any stray animals-horses, cows, sheep-until their owners collected them. He could charge a fee for their return. The stables are still used to this day, to house two percherons belonging to Vaux Brewery in Sunderland, when they visit Sheffield for their processions and other person appearances. They are to be found at the rear of the building.”

Bicycle shop

Nikon F80 & Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD. Ilford HP5+ (@800), Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 22 February 2025

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Beer and chips (and a lazy Easter Sunday)

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Although the weather has been nice today, I’ve spent most of it sat on the sofa with our cats, browsing the internet on my phone and reading a photobook (England Observed by John Gay. You can see a selection of his wonderful and evocative photographs here).

My dad visited this morning and we agreed to visit Newark Air Museum this week while I’m on leave – we attempted a visit last autumn, but when we arrived they had had a water outage and were unable to admit visitors!

I also checked in with my son on WhatsApp to see how our daughter-in-law was getting on in the 5k run she was doing as part of the Leeds Running Festival (which she admitted she was doing largely to get the medal that all participants receive 🙂 ).

Now I’m sat here attempting to digest the large Sunday dinner I’ve consumed (featuring a very large leg of lamb). I didn’t receive any chocolate eggs, although I don’t think I could manage any chocolate after the dinner.

I slept better lat night, thankfully. I’m not sure if my mind was just in a bit better state, or if it was a result of my tried-and-tested “eat a banana before bedtime” method of combating anxiety-caused insomnia, but I’ll do the same again tonight. Getting a decent amount of sleep makes a lot of difference to your day.

Kelham Island Tavern
Hicks Street Fish & Chips

Yashica Mat 124G & Lomography Color Negative 400. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 2 February 2025