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More Tickhill scenes

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Some more pictures from my wander around Tickhill – mostly taken after I visited the church.

I’m fond of the old-style road sign (or “fingerpost” as I believe they are called) and I’ve had it in my mind to maybe do some sort of project on them. I just need to pull my finger out and get on with it. 🙂 There are many of them still dotted about, mostly in rural locations (although there’s one five minutes walk from where I live, in the suburbs).

The second picture shows the market cross (although market temple feels more apt in this case), with the fingerpost hiding in the background.

The light had become a bit drab when I took these pictures, it being after the rain shower that had forced me to take shelter, so the pictures are a little flat (especially the last shot, of the butcher’s shop), I think.

Fingerpost
Market Cross
Between Castlegate and Market Place
St. Mary's Gate
Butcher's shop

Yashica Mat 124G & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°

Taken on 22 June 2025

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A selection of shops

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I find shops to be interesting subjects to photograph, especially older shops which retain some of their original charm and character (even if the business that resides within might have changed multiple times). Modern shops often lose some of this interest, I think, but they still feature displays that are of their time and which will, as the years pass, grow in interest.

I really like to see old photos of places I know and to remember how they used to look and note how they have changed in the intervening years. I think it’s a big part of why I photograph shops (and other sometimes mundane scenes) – one day I, or someone else, will find similar fascination in remembering and observing how things looked when I took my pictures.

Jalousie
Post office
Steep Hill antiques shop
Steep Hill Bookshop
Fast food and video games

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

Taken on 1 March 2025

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Getting closer…

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I thought that these three photos worked well as a set, with Lincoln Cathedral featuring in each as I walked through the city making my approach.

Sorry to not write more – it’s almost thirty degrees celcius in my office at present and I’m sat here with a damp cloth on my head to keep cool while I type! – so I’m trying to limit my time at the computer.

In Lincoln
At the foot of Steep Hill
Lincoln Cathedral

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

Taken on 1 March 2025

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Flags and bunting

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Something I’ve noticed when taking photos this summer are the number of places flying flags or draped in strings of bunting. While the reason for this is not hard to fathom – it was the royal jubilee just a couple of months ago – it’s still quite striking how much of it is still there in abundance. Perhaps people have decided they don’t want to spend the effort required to take it back down or, probably more likely, that it just looks nice and they want to see it for as long as they can. It certainly makes for prettier pictures.

Here is a row of decorated shops in the Yorkshire seaside town of Hornsea.

A row of shops

Olympus 35 RC & Kodak Gold 200. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 20 June 2022

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Break glass in case of emergency

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As I mentioned yesterday, I’m travelling for a business trip today (on one of the hottest days in UK history!). I might be delayed in getting home so I’ve broken out* an emergency post and scheduled it to publish automatically.

So please enjoy this photo of a couple of old-fashioned shop fronts that I shot in Harrogate last month.

* not really. I’ve just written it off the cuff.

Old-skool shops

Olympus 35 RC & Ilford FP4+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°.

Taken on 11 May 2022

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Golden Stars

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I liked the way the light was falling on this Chinese takeaway. Ironically, despite its name, the stars on the shop front are white.

The tattoo parlour next door has a notice stating no walk-ins. I don’t think there’s a Christopher Walken branded sign for that though. 🙂

A row of shop fronts
Body art and takeaways
Lit by the sunshine

Golden Stars

Canon Sure Shot Supreme & Kodak Elite Chrome 200 (expired 2003).

Taken on 17 April 2021

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Takeaways and tattoos

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Takeaways, a cafe, a tattoo parlour, and an empty salon make up this row of shops about a mile from home. This is probably a bit of a record shot really, but it’s the sort of thing that will mature with age as the shops change hands and purpose and the cars become old fashioned. I enjoy looking at photos depicting places how they used to be, and perhaps in a decade or two, this one will fit that bill too.

Time moves. Places change
So dull contemporary
Becomes nostalgic

Tattoos and takeaways

Fujica GW690 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 29 December 2020

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Pandemic scenes #7

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One of the significant changes due to the UK lockdown was the closure of non-essential retail. The local shopping mall, which has a large selection of stores, including big-name reatil outlets, a market hall, and a variety of other independent traders, has been largely shut down as a result. The two photographs posted today were made while queueing to get into Wilkinsons, a store permitted to open during lockdown. I think I went in to buy some anti-viral disinfectant wipes.

As the store was operating the now-familiar system of only allowing a limited number of customers inside at any one time, the queue stretched past a number of other, closed, shops, including ToyTown, where a large plastic knight seemed to be guarding against unwanted intruders.

Pandemic scenes - Guarding Toytown

Once inside Wilkinsons, my route through the store took me down the confectionery aisle, where I noticed the locked down pick’n’mix sweets and made the second picture.

These photographs were made almost six weeks ago now and the UK government have announced that non-essential retail can re-open for business (with social distancing precautions in place) on 15 June. Some members of the government’s own advisory council, SAGE, have warned against this (and other loosening of restrictions). The country is still recording 8,000 new infections each day and the R number is hovering perilously close to 1 (if it goes above this it indicates that each infected person is passing on the disease to more than one other person, which means the numbers of infected will increase). My fear is that the loosening of measures is premature and being done for political reasons, not public health, and that we could very well be paying the price for it before long.

Pandemic scenes - Pick & Mix

Canon Sure Shot Telemax & Ilford Delta 400. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8 mins @ 20°.

Taken on 19 April 2020