Birth of Industry

Jamie: 5th May 2005 - 07:59 GMT

do you know what? that photo has reawakened a distant memory of a primary school trip to derbyshire many moons ago. we visited chatsworth house and i'm sure we totally visited this place. wow, that's made my morning. fandabidozi.

elaine: 5th May 2005 - 08:05 GMT

maybe you did. i went to chatsworth that holday too, but this was better. i also dragged my mum off to see some standing stones as well, but made up for it by letting her buy me tops from the john smedly factory outlet...
i know loads more about it and have plenty more rant inside me as you may well imagine, but tried to keep it short and palatable!

Jamie: 5th May 2005 - 08:24 GMT

wow, another surpressed memory. we went to see some standing stones too. small ones. they were in a clearing of sorts set in a circle. i remember thinking even then, at the age of 9 or 10 that they were pretty cool

elaine: 5th May 2005 - 08:54 GMT

mmm, perhaps they were the nine ladies OS 119.249636. i went to see them another time when i was trying to seduce this boy, but that's another story.and another photo somewhere... now i can't remember which ones i took my mum to but they were further west

Jamie: 5th May 2005 - 09:00 GMT

Yes. The nine ladies. That was them. What a haphazard coincidence.

elaine: 5th May 2005 - 09:32 GMT

not at all, switched on sort of a teacher, but, yes, manageable in a day, just about. cromford mill is just south of matlock walking distance, nine ladies just north west short drive, and chatsworth another short drive north again. what a great day out
either that or i am a super stalker and have hacked your 9 year old history day trip memory

elaine: 5th May 2005 - 09:53 GMT

or, it's a strikingly manageable very good day trip spanning a lot of history and something likely to appeal to everyone

elaine: 5th May 2005 - 09:57 GMT

no, seriously, i am an uber-stalker, i can see inside your head and read files you thought were deleted. RA!

elaine: 5th May 2005 - 16:59 GMT

i'll say. it is my private belief that you can't put that much human suffering somewhere without it being haunted

" Hazel ": 6th May 2005 - 11:27 GMT

...it's the 1st factory anywhereever, of course its haunted, and haunting all of us everywhere all the time... x x x

elaine: 10th May 2005 - 07:32 GMT

jamie: here is your memory of walking to nine ladies;

photographs are so weird, now with the freedom to shoot and delete i am a lot more likely... but still a bit cagey about people (though i take a nice dog portrait) oddly on that walk i did not photograph 9 ladies or the handsome boy, but i did photograph this path - no, really, i stole it from your mind while you were sleeping!

Jamie: 10th May 2005 - 08:11 GMT

as before, stop hacking into my childhood subconscious (check my kikass spelling). i too am cagey about people when photographing, but i'm working on it.

elaine: 10th May 2005 - 09:36 GMT

well, so you can spell! the school was good for more than day trips then? ok, that's all i got from your subconscious... for now

i have no idea if i will ever overcome the people thing, really. i make a crap subject as well, for the most part

ea: 17th May 2005 - 22:17 GMT

ooh elaine I love that image perspecive (1640), tis rather traversable, I nearly felt my ankle twist

elaine: 18th May 2005 - 07:27 GMT

it was a slippery day as well, and i had new shoes on. plus we had been out drinking late in nottingham the nigh before, and despite a fry up in matlock providing ballast, i spent most of the walk in agonies of dehydration. the worse for the great idea i had of taking a longer route to the stones, which got us lost and took ages. and then when we got there there were two women sitting on the stones talking in loud voices so we could not enjoy them quietly or alone, and of course i did not take a photograph. however, on the way back i noticed the drama of this path, and i am glad it has a new life here now