Ever since seeing the Dr Who episode with the weeping angels, I have found angel statues rather creepy but I braved it and dusted off the cobwebs before taking a photo of this one Note: I am currently seeking the higher resolution material from Adrian's photographic collection, both negative and digital. His partner, Annie, has offered to let me use them as I wish, and I hope she is able to find this material in Adrian's extensive collection.
This has now occured and I have both her permission to use original PSD files and negatives and so I have therefore up-dated the mosaic material here, with the higher resolution originals.
Our meeting also resulted in my both getting some of Adrian's collected negatives and his digital camera files, from over the last 10 years or more, and agreement to use them with due credit to him, which is what I always do here of course.
This first mosaic looks south-east along the old M. I have been considering what might be the next option for using some of the pictures Adrian sent me in the year or so before he died in August, There were around two dozen in all, unseen, some of which I have already used here, see-. The present offering was one which arose from a recent visit back to Wardsend, which I last visited very briefly in early June last year, passing through, to photograph the material for the 'Shirecliffe Pigeon Lofts' piece, see above, and then, before that, 3 years earlier on 6th June, That visit was prompted by seeing two of Adrian's almost 40 year's old shots taken in the same location, and shown here at left, at top, a DMU heading to Leeds along what is now the 'Stocksbridge Branch Line' and beneath that, a view from one of the prominent gravestones in the Cemetery, looking up to the M.
I subsequently found a copy of these, and several others, which were to be published in his blog, in Part 4, 'Fire and Water: An Upper Don Walk in ', see-. Fortunately by September of that year I had a copy of the whole blog, and scanning through it, noticed a couple of years ago, there were more pictures in what I had down-loaded in part 4, than there were in the on-line version; subsequently forgetting all about it, until last week!
