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August 2025 Part I

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  "August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied." - Joseph Wood Krutch -  "Twelve Seasons" A Walk to Ponden Kirk, Stanbury Moor  Goit Stock Waterfall, Harden, Bradford August in Haworth, Brontë Country

Publication of "Let me in The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar" book

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  A new, exciting and long awaited book has just been published at the Brontë Society of which I am a proud member as well as employee of its Brontë Parsonage Museum. The book is co-written by our distinguished and devoted Principal Curator of the BPM, Ann Dinsdale and a Brontë biographer and award winning journalist, Sharon Wright. The title, "Let me in The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar" is about a personal journey of the authors around the houses with Brontë connections in England and Ireland and the significance of the houses in the lives of the Brontës including the authors' intimate thoughts and feelings as well as secrets and little known stories related to these places. It is a large format illustrated book with some old as well as never-seen-before photographs, and I was thrilled to be chosen to supply photographs for the Haworth sections of the book. Below are the seventeen photographs of mine in the order they appear in the book. This is a truly beautiful, intere...

March 2025

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  "Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King, When blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jugge, jugge, pu we, to-witta-woo!" - Thomas Nashe - from Summer's Last Will and Testament Dreamy Early Spring Mornings Around Haworth Crocuses at Cliffe Castle, Keighley Spring morning at Brontë Parsonage, Haworth When you step outside after work and pause to behold a magical sunset Morning Steam Gala train View over West Lane from Penistone Hill, Haworth Windows of Ponden Hall Facebook Video