The Cheshire Dreams book is now available on www.lulu.com both as an e-book and as a printed book.
The e-book contains higher resolution versions of the images. It’s possible to enlarge them to examine detail within the picture or to print them out using a photo printer.
The print book is a test version that is currently under evaluation. It is paperback, perfect bound, full colour. The quality is up to the standard of cheaper paperback books or magazines.
In future I hope to publish a volume of Cheshire Dreams in limited edition to an extremely high standard.
Go to www.lulu.com to see the Cheshire Dreams listing page.
There are some attractive old street lamps on the road linking the village of Morley Green with the A538 to Wilmslow.
Lamps such as these help to define the quality and atmosphere of a place. They are precious historical artifacts in themselves, which should be restored and maintained. Unfortunately many lamps such as these are being taken down and replaced with modern style lamps.
The historical, the ancient, the quaint, that’s what often makes a place unique. That’s why tourists flock to Chester rather than Runcorn new town.
Putting a modern functional lamp post in a context of older buidlings is like putting an IKEA uplighter in a Victorian drawing room.
Lamps like these are a link with the past that ought to be preserved for the future. Long after modern lamps will have gone out of date or broken down, these antique lamps could continue working, providing light and helping to preserve the unique atmosphere of the location.
Bramall Hall is one of the most magnificent half-timbered houses in the country. Once a family home, for many years it has belonged to the town of Stockport.
Until comparatively recently it was surrounded by countryside. Today it is in the midst of the pleasant suburb of Bramhall. It looks magnificent at any time of year, but during snowy weather it has a special magic.
I enjoyed coming to Bramall Hall as a child, and at night imagined the ghost stalking the house and making the floorboards creek.
More information about Bramall Hall at www.bramallhall.org.uk.
