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		<title>Gasometer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Higher Parr Street]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A miserable day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Fellow Photographer</title>
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		<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>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>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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		<title>Social Photography, The Fleece Hotel, late 1970s</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A well turned out couple at an event at the Fleece Hotel, St.Helens. Circa 1979. My first commercial work (being paid money for photography) was the team photos I shot at Cowley Boys School. My second experience of earning an income came in the 6th form when I got a job as a social photographer ... <a title="Social Photography, The Fleece Hotel, late 1970s" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2020/11/03/the-fleece-hotel/" aria-label="Read more about Social Photography, The Fleece Hotel, late 1970s">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Plant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wasteland</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 22:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No, not a shot of a failed Mars Lander. Abandoned carcass of a black and white valve TV set, possible early 1960s vintage. Photo approx 1976/7. Taken in St.Helens on some wasteland, possibly after some street demolition. This shot reminded me that I used to enjoy taking the backs off old TVs to poke around ... <a title="The Wasteland" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2020/03/01/the-wasteland/" aria-label="Read more about The Wasteland">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cup-a-Soup</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2019 20:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St.Helens supermarket, late 1970s. Mum and sister Susan discuss the weekly shopping, Cup-a-Soup is 40.5p (the half pence was always written very small on the card so on first look the price seemed to be 40p.) I seem to remember wearing my school uniform when I took this so it may have been after school. ... <a title="Cup-a-Soup" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2019/08/10/cup-a-soup/" aria-label="Read more about Cup-a-Soup">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Local Streets</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 08:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Late 1970s image showing the corner of Cooper and (I think) Argyle street in St.Helens (since demolished). The houses and shops of my youth were still pretty much unchanged from when I grew up there in the 1960s. This particular shop was a favourite of my sisters and myself in the 1960s as they sold ... <a title="Local Streets" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2019/05/15/local-streets/" aria-label="Read more about Local Streets">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Foggy hometime</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I have come to love this hopeless light, neglected and fading. Two memories come to mind. Ladies in their  older years always wearing scarfs over their heads, though I don&#8217;t think it was for religious reasons. Memory is of them hiding curlers or perhaps a bouffant protected from the wind. A visit from the ... <a title="Foggy hometime" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/10/04/foggy-hometime/" aria-label="Read more about Foggy hometime">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Meeting ourselves</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Waiting for the lights to change at the pedestrian crossing on Bickerstaffe Street, St.Helens approx 1975. I was returning to the large building on the right which is the Gamble Institute and needed to finish the film I had been given at the photo department there. I had been loaned a twin lens reflex camera ... <a title="Meeting ourselves" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/09/05/meeting-ourselves/" aria-label="Read more about Meeting ourselves">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Burchalls Butchers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of my earliest images, shot on a twin lens reflex camera borrowed from the photo department of the Gamble Institute in St.Helens. Given a roll of film and the instructions to &#8220;go for a walk and photograph what you see&#8221; was the perfect way to explore photography in both the &#8220;mechanics&#8221; sense and also ... <a title="Burchalls Butchers" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/08/27/burchalls-butchers/" aria-label="Read more about Burchalls Butchers">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bitter colours</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St.Helens Industrial area from the late 1980s]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>1975 Street scene</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2018 14:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The St.Helens I remember from my youth. I was thirteen and a half when I took this (I have a very clear memory of taking this image). Very self conscious at the time, there was a break in the traffic but I was not nervous of the traffic just of what people might think. Going ... <a title="1975 Street scene" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/05/28/1975-street-scene/" aria-label="Read more about 1975 Street scene">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Connie Kelly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2018 14:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Family friend Connie Kelly outside her antiques shop at 164 Duke Street late 70s / early 80s. St.Helens]]></description>
		
		
		
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