All work and no play makes Jack and dull boy.
The medieval stone cross at St Leonard’s Church, Thrybergh
I’ve been intrigued by this medieval stone cross for a few years and managed to get some decent pictures of it whilst photographing St Leonard’s Church in February of 2017. Despite it’s worn and torn look it’s quite fascinating in it’s own right. jon rosling
Last year I published my first book, THE SLEEP OF REASON: Modernisation, Intention and Nazi Race Policy, an addition to the mass of existing Holocaust literature. jon rosling
Admittedly the title is not one to leap off of the shelves at Waterstones and it’s more of a thought piece and academic text than coffee table fare as it looks at the development of racial policy in Nazi Germany after the National Socialists took power 1933.
Clearly something for niche historians and students of the Holocaust and the period generally.
Steelmaking in Rotherham at it’s peak
Back in 2010, and as part of the Rotherham Steelos Songs of Steel project I had the great pleasure of working camera on an interview with Ted Thompson, a former Rotherham steelworker, who was then in his 1990s and living alone in Rotherham. jon rosling
It was one of the most fascinating interviews I’ve ever watched and I could’ve sat and listened to Ted recall his childhood and working life long into the night.
He recalled his school days with such incredible clarity, describing places in Rotherham that I could recognise (though only just recognise for the town – and the world – has moved on) and remember even his first day as a Rotherham steelworker in the early 1930s, still a boy and barely out of short trousers.
I found out last week that Ted passed away recently and I was touched by a genuine sadness, both at this elderly gentleman’s end and at the loss of memory and history that he takes with him.
The town where I lived, that has such a rich, varied and interesting past, and how that place used to be dies a little more as the generations blink out and fade into memory themselves.
RIP Mr Thompson. It was a pleasure to have met and talked with you. jon rosling
Lincoln Cathedral was home to me for a few hours last month while I spent time happy snapping with the Fuji Finepix I have. Finally, I got around editing the photos.
Click the images to enlarge each one.
I particularly like this one of the arches and vaulting at the end of the south aisle.
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