PENELOPE HEMINGWAY
On October 14th, 1888, Augustin Louis Le Prince shot the world’s oldest surviving piece of film – in a Leeds suburban garden. Widely known as the “Roundhay Garden Scene”, the footage was shot by Louis Le Prince at the now demolished Roundhay Cottage, later known as Oakwood Grange, Roundhay in Leeds, and featured Le […]
Got a parcel, this morning. Getting parcels is always brilliant, but this was a particularly brilliant parcel. Some print copies of ‘The Old Hand-Knitters of the Dales’. These will be distributed around the shops of museums in the North of England who helped us during our period of research. I will put up details soon. […]
My blog posts are like buses – nothing for ages then two come at once. This is another pic found on my sons’ machine. Dad, outside his house, in Leeds, would be early 1930s. This house was technically a ‘back to back’ so it had two addresses. This side of the house I never […]
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 