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		<title>But What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taken on (my only)  skiing trip to France. Late 1980s? Kodachrome 35mm slide film. &#160;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mum</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 17:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taken on a late 1970s holiday trip to stay at a caravan in North Wales. Mum taking a rest with Cindy the miniture Yorkshire terrier dog beside her. Perhaps tea bags were considered to be a suitable replacement for cucumber? Mum would have been horified that I had taken the picture. As a learnt later ... <a title="Mum" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2022/02/18/mum/" aria-label="Read more about Mum">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A big job for the firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1980s walk around London taking some stock images, I came across a new guard at Buckingham Palace. 35mm fujichrome transparency film.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>King George VI Electric Suction Sweeper</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[London: Tyrwhitt Road]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Moving to London in 1984 was quite a step for me. My worldly posessions in the boot of a friends car and £40 in my bank account. I was very fortunate to have a lovely landlady (Adams mum). The supplied hover in the shared furnished flat worked well despite it being 30-50 years old.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The door in the wall</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2021 13:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love the short story by H,G.Wells &#8220;The door in the wall&#8221;, you can read it here Read as an allegory it touches something that was very tangible for me, since lost in the noise of life. This side of the doorway was in Haydock, Merseyside in the early 1980s.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>School show</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cowley school]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even Latin Masters could show their funny side when on stage at the school show. Cowley boys school, St.Helens, later 1970s.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Holiday Camp</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 22:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A gentle stroll down the beach in Prestatyn, Wales with my parents and sisters. We came across this holiday camp. It didnt look particularly inviting but things were a bit like that then. This may of course have been taken after 1984 when it was closed down and used to train police in riot control. ... <a title="Holiday Camp" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2020/05/20/holiday-camp/" aria-label="Read more about Holiday Camp">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Still Point</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial work]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shot at the London Marathon in Greenwich. This image was syndicated through Getty Images in the 1990s. A straight scan of a 35mm transparency with no image manipulation. (Please note that I do not provide sharing links for commercial images on this site, these are for viewing on this website only If you wish to ... <a title="Still Point" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2020/04/30/still-point/" aria-label="Read more about Still Point">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Haydock races</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 11:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Haydock]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How cats got fleas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Municipal Buildings, Truro, Cornwall, 1981. Loved my visit to Truro in the early 1980s. I was studying photography at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic and a group of us were staying at the cottage of a tutor in the County. Came across this scene and had to take a frame. Particularly impressed that the Flea market was ... <a title="How cats got fleas" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2020/01/30/how-cats-got-fleas/" aria-label="Read more about How cats got fleas">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rainy morning trip into work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Three London bus inspectors respecting each others space on the top deck, the rain rolling down the windows completes this little tableau. Taken in the mid 1980s. I would have taken the picture because even one inspector sitting down would have been an unusual sight, they normally were seen standing up and demanding to see ... <a title="Rainy morning trip into work" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2020/01/30/rainy-morning-trip-into-work/" aria-label="Read more about Rainy morning trip into work">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The egg</title>
		<link>https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2019/12/13/the-egg/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2019 14:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[London: Patrick Cook Plastics Collection]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Egg cups and props from the Patrick Cook collection]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Umbrella shop</title>
		<link>https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2019/08/27/umbrella-shop/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Places]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 1990 I went on a trip to Poland. It was in the later stages of the fall of communism. Among the extensive brutalist concrete buildings in the various cities I went to there was always a little place where the sunshine came through. Also reminiscent of aspects of &#8220;The Village&#8221; in the 60s tv ... <a title="Umbrella shop" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2019/08/27/umbrella-shop/" aria-label="Read more about Umbrella shop">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Team photos</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 09:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cowley school]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My first income from photography came from taking over the team photos at Cowley Boys School. I didnt charge very much, 50p bought a whole plate (8.5&#8243;x6.5&#8243;) print in black and white. Cheap even at the time this enabled me to buy short lengths of outdated film or chemicals for the darkroom. Sleet added to ... <a title="Team photos" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/09/17/group-photos/" aria-label="Read more about Team photos">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Deputy Heads</title>
		<link>https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/05/18/deputy-heads/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cowley school]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cowley Boys School. St.Helens. On a trip back in 1980 to pick up my A level certificate (singular!) The presentation was in the evening in a newly built building and the deputy heads had just switched the lights on in the room, they were keen that all lights were working in the new space. Thinking ... <a title="Deputy Heads" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/05/18/deputy-heads/" aria-label="Read more about Deputy Heads">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Selective focus</title>
		<link>https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/05/02/selective-focus/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[St.Helens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Town Center]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I must have taken this picture in the mid 1970s at about the age of 14 or 15. Its inside the museum part of the Gamble Institute in the centre of St.Helens. The formal (and quiet) atmosphere in the room seemed at odds with the doll and I think this is what caught my attention ... <a title="Selective focus" class="read-more" href="https://stephenjohnson.co.uk/2018/05/02/selective-focus/" aria-label="Read more about Selective focus">Read more</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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