.... He worked as a musician every weekend in Working Men's Clubs in and around Bradford. He occasionally wore a suit of armour and a feathered hat.

.... I didn't even have a coloured picture to illustrate this, so my original monochrome image has been tinted by an intelligence that is both artificial and has clearly never visited Halifax.

..... or Bournemouth, or Pontypool, Wales, or Skibbereen, Ireland, or, even, in downtown San Francisco!

..... there's more traffic these days, of course, and those elaborate tram poles are long gone. The photo must date from around 1910 when the Victoria Hall became, for a brief period, the home of Premier Pictures.

..... By the 1860s, when this little photograph of mine was taken, you had real faces in real settings. History could now be documented.

.... It's a brilliant photo from almost a century ago: whatever your starting point, your eyes are taken on a journey to his face, and then sent off on a voyage over the sea.

My photo captured it about ten years ago in the late autumn sun.

.... Just look at that face: formed in the nineteenth century, photographed in the twentieth, and restored in the twenty-first century.

.... Throw in a concrete road and a graphite sky, and you get something that, to me, is beauty.