My second roll for September, they continue on from the first roll I took on a trip into Manchester last week. We went through Ancoats, then onto New Islington along the Rochdale canal.
Canonet QL17
Foma 200
Developed in HC110 for 4 minutes.
Ancoats
Rochdale Canal
New Islington Marina
FFP25 September roll 1
I had a trip into Manchester last week, my partner was donating blood. Afterwards we had a wander around Ancoats and New Islington, so I decided to take the opportunity to take a couple of films for Septembers FFP. Here is the first film.
Anita street in Ancoats was formerly called Sanitary Street and this was a boast because around 1880, these were among the first houses to have running water and sanitation! Before this, living conditions were terrible and Manchester was one of the worst places to live in the country. Having sanitation, you were posh! It was renamed Anita Street in the 60’s.
The area is quite different now, there has been a massive investment in the area.
Canonet QL17
Fomapan 200
Developed in HC110 (Dil ‘B’) for 4 minutes @ 20 degrees
This is something a little different for me, it’s a project I have been working on for a few years on and off. My partner and I love listening to live music. To go and watch the big bands costs far to much for entry and usually is in large arenas of outdoors with thousands of people attending. We like to smaller intimate venues were there are only 200 to 300 people there. We go to The Met in Bury or St Mary’s Chambers in Rawtenstall,
The bands we tend to watch are all tribute acts from mainly the 1970’s and 1980’s, as I said earlier the originals are expensive or no longer playing together.
Here are few images taken at these gigs over the last couple of years. All taken with my iPhone and processed in Lightroom.
A band called Malice. (The Jam tribute)
The Smiths Ltd (The Smiths tribute) along with a photo of my partner Jan outside Salford lads club, used for one of the bands album artwork.
Fleetwood Bac (Fleetwood Mac tribute)
Lastly Jean Genie, Total Clash, Yourythmics and Stax of Soul. (David Bowie, The Clash and the Eurythmics tribute) Stax of Soul just play soul classics.
Dave Wilkinson 