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		<title>being in a place</title>
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		<title>A miserable day</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ormskirk Street, St.Helens, Merseyside 1978. Building site for the Nat West Bank. Wearing a long coat, a head scarf and with a plastic bag in hand a lady makes her way across the road. In photography it&#8217;s easy to glamorise, to photograph the extra ordinary. It&#8217;s harder to document the ordinary. In the gloom and ... <a title="A miserable day" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2025/01/11/a-miserable-day/" aria-label="Read more about A miserable day">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>4th and 5th form official schools photographer</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I never got into rugby myself but was fortunate to miss games periods to do photography. A side effect was to become the sports teams photographer for the school. All the moneys from the sale of prints went back into buying film, chemicals and paper.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Extra maths class 1978/9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So greatful to the teachers who had the patience to help me understand mathematics.  I won a school prize in the 5th form, £5 towards a book, I chose the focal encyclapedia of photography. A little certificate was pasted into the front of the book, the award was for &#8220;Progress&#8221;. I went from being very ... <a title="Extra maths class 1978/9" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2024/11/16/4660/" aria-label="Read more about Extra maths class 1978/9">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Making Clouds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1979. Most of the Chimneys at Pilkington Glass Works in St.Helens were the original Brick ones built in Victorian times. When I was born Queen Victoria had only been dead 60 years. Time moved slower in the North of England and the change from Victorian times was slow. Growing up in a house with a ... <a title="Making Clouds" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2024/11/04/making-clouds/" aria-label="Read more about Making Clouds">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fellow Photographer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Atherton Street, St.Helens. 1979. I took this during an exchange visit in 1979. Musicians and choir from the Fanny Leicht Gymnasium in Stuttgart were visting Cowley school and they were all staying with local families. I was walking with a large group of the visiting pupils into the town centre; they were due to meet ... <a title="Fellow Photographer" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2024/11/04/fellow-photographer/" aria-label="Read more about Fellow Photographer">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Guided by the universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I dont show all my images here, some have meaning only for a small group of people. Last week I was looking through some old pictures from my time at Cowley School in St.Helens and came across this picture of two fellow pupils enjoying a tea break in the sixth form centre. Not the best ... <a title="Guided by the universe" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2023/06/26/guided-by-the-universe/" aria-label="Read more about Guided by the universe">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Summer day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 21:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[View down Victoria Park from the North Road , Rutland street entrance (St.Marks Gate). Rare 35mm colour transparency, Mid 1970s. Zenit E camera 58mm Helios 44 lens.]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I was keen to study Photography after school and Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham offered a three year course in visual communications photography and film. I turned up for an interview there with a very small portfolio of images, I was still at school and in retrospect should have done a foundation course at the local ... <a title="Getting into Polytechnic with only one A level" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2022/06/17/getting-into-polytechnic-with-only-one-a-level/" aria-label="Read more about Getting into Polytechnic with only one A level">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Preparing Sunday dinner in the 1970s</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 20:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Approx. 1978. In the kitchen in our house in Haydock. Mum prepares the meal. Dad is in his Sunday best in the pub across town with his brothers drinking beer, a drive home in the Austin 1100 then a short sleep before eating.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bicycles</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two bikes in the garage of our house in Ledger Road, Haydock. Taken in approx 1978. I seem to remember playing with depth of field and perhaps using a small aperture (f16) on my Russian Lubitel II 6&#215;6 camera to get the most depth of field. Transparency film in this format was expensive so I ... <a title="Bicycles" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2021/12/09/bicycles/" aria-label="Read more about Bicycles">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reluctantance at the start</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Haydock Racecourse N.W. England. Summer 1980. Lining up for the race. Pentax K1000 camera, Kodachrome 25 transparency film.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Escaping the rain at the Gamble Institute, St.Helens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The rain was coming down hard. As a young lad in the late 1970s I t was not long before I tried a frame of film in my cheap Chinese Seagul 203 camera. I had just completed a Saturday morning photograhy class in the days when local councils held free education classes for its people.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Disdain in the lab</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Chemistry lab in the newly mixed 6th Form centre at the old Cowley Boys site. Home processed E4 transparency film.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chalon Way Car Park</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[View from Chalon Way Car Park, St.Helens approx 1977. Taken on a Saturday morning walk from the photo department of the Gamble Institute. Given freedom (and film) to walk around town and document what we saw. I headed to the multi-storey car park and photographed Pilkington Glass works next to St.Helens town centre. Looking down ... <a title="Chalon Way Car Park" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2021/04/20/chalon-way-car-park/" aria-label="Read more about Chalon Way Car Park">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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