Knitted Tie Portrait.

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Ephemera, Knitted tie, Knitting, Leeds, old photographs, Photography, Retro, Studio Photograph, studio portrait., Vintage, vintage fashion, Woodhouse Street Leeds

For at least the last five years I have favoured the knitted tie above all other styles, although I can’t recall exactly when I purchased my first, but I think I might have discovered it in a vintage shop in the Grand Arcade, Leeds. The trend doesn’t seen to have caught on however, because I’ve never met anyone else wearing one; not that I consider myself a trend setter! Hence my surprise at finding this portrait of a proud knitted tie wearer.

The photographers name and the address of his studio is printed on the back, “F. Scrimshaw, 46 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds”. The Leeds Museum and Galleries website informs me that F. Scrimshaw appears in the city’s trade directories between 1906 and 1914 at the afore mentioned address and they have a photograph of his as part of their on-line archive and the Leodis “photographic archive of Leeds” has a photograph of “Francis” Scrimshaw’s studio at 46 Woodhouse lane in the mid-1960’s.

Purchased: Haworth, May 2014.

Other photographs from my collection can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/121480122@N04/sets/72157643085991143/

On The Fence.

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bow ties, Edwardian, Fashion, flat cap, Hull, Hull City of Culture 2017, old photographs, Photography, Retro, Skinny trousers, Vintage

I’m loving this chap’s tailoring, flat cap and the rural idyll studio background; complete with rustic fence. The back of the photograph is blank, but I guess he is a Yorkshireman (as all the other photographs in the box I found it in had connects to Hull, Scarborough and Sheffield). Perhaps I should get myself some skinny trousers…

Souvenirs: Celery Pot, Rye.

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antique shop, Celery, Diane Setek., Price Kensington, Retro, Rye, Souvenir

“I picked up a very odd looking collectable from an antique shop”, reads my diary from 8th June 2005. I didn’t write a lot in those days so all the entry really tells us is that “It’s owner told me it was from a range of vegetable inspired ceramics from the 1950’s” and that even then I thought it was “A very eccentric thing”. My only other souvenir of Rye is the plastic bag with “Thank you for shopping in Rye” written on it above a drawing of the “Historic Town and Cinque Port” by Diane Setek.
I have never kept celery in it myself; I use it to keep my pens and pencils in.