An alley in Wetherby, Yorkshire : photo by Malcolm Aslett
This one is a bit of an oddity. Wakefield in a small Yorkshire town. The old stone shops and houses in this part of the country are very distinctive. This is a wintry day looking down an alley at a couple of establishments with a variety of distortions involved. An alley means you can't see much properly, as you are viewing things askance most of the time. Everything seems to merge into the idea of 'alley' rather than seeing any of its parts as a whole. The left hand side is kept vertical while the right is a mixture of verticals, slants and bulges. Things are 'bitty'. The old bricks and stones have taken a pounding, You can see the stone on the lower right has been worn by rain and wind so that it is depressed further than the mortar between it. The whole thing has a cave-like quality, weathered and eaten away, an effect helped by the stone merging into the paving at bottom right. |