Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire in the late 1980s.
A competitor in the Cheshire Ploughing Match using a little grey Fergie, the nickname for the Ferguson TE20 farm tractor. TE20 meant Tractor English 20 horsepower.
Throwback Thursday travels back to a steam rally in southern Cheshire in the late 1980s.
This is a steam powered fairground organ, also known as a calliope.
Travel Tuesday is visiting the Cheshire Ploughing Match in the 1980s.
This is a competitor using an old Fordson tractor in the ploughing match.
Travel Tuesday this week is a follow-up to last week which featured the South Cheshire Pipe Band drummer.
This is the band performing on The Square in the town of Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England during a Medieval Fair.
Travel Tuesday is traveling back to the town of Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England in the mid 1980s.
There was a Medieval Fair on the town square although there wasn’t much sign of anything medieval. The South Cheshire Pipe Band were performing on a section of the square.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Nostalgic prompt.
It took me a while to come up with a theme for the challenge. Then I thought about my ‘getting back to basics’ project and I had my theme.
A few years ago I put together a kit of manual focus prime lenses to shoot digital the same way I used to shoot film in the 1970s and early 80s. It was a way of getting back to the basics of photography.
Then an accident last year left me with restricted movement in the right shoulder and a weaker right arm and I slimmed the kit down further to three small, manual focus primes and a small mirrorless camera.
My Travel Tuesday blog post this week is traveling back to the market town of Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England in the mid 1980s.
This is part of the town square and some of the buildings surrounding it. Known locally as The Square it’s the center of the oldest part of the town. The town has one of the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England with lots of good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture.
A fire in December of 1583 destroyed most of the town to the east of the River Weaver which runs through the town.
