S/S Moss Brow – Prologue

It's an evening on 21 October 2021. A couple of hours ago I came back home after visiting a local cemetery here in my home town, Porvoo. I went there to lit a candle on the grave of six English seaman, who lost their lives when S/S Moss Brow wrecked on 21 October 1896 in...

Music Archive, Part VI ~ hide with Spread Beaver: Hurry Go Round (Universal Victor, 1998)

Music Archive is a series, where I write about albums or singles that have been released years ago, too long time ago to be enclosed in the “Reviews” category. Music Archive is thus forming its own subcategory under “Reviews”, even though these write-ups are not reviews, maybe not always even presentations.  They are just stories...

hide: Psyence A Go Go Tour (1996)

Hide’s second solo tour, Psyence A Go Go, took place in September and October 1996. The tour started on 4 September and the last two shows took place in Tokyo on 19 and 20 October, exactly 25 years ago. When I was watching the very last show of the tour show on DVD at the...

The Crystal Palace, Part I – The Great Exhibition 1851

The Great Exhibition in London was closed on 15 October 1851 being open since the first of May that year. Twenty years ago I wrote an article for a Finnish newspaper about the exhibition and visited Crystal Palace Museum and park and went to see the famous dinosaurs. I will come back those things hopefully...

Music Archive, Part V ~ Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (Cherry Red Records, 1980)

Music Archive is a series, where I write about albums or singles that have been released years ago, too long time ago to be enclosed in the “Reviews” category. Music Archive is thus forming its own subcategory under “Reviews”, even though these write-ups are not reviews, maybe not always even presentations.  They are just stories...

The 125 Years Old Snowdon Mountain Railway – My Visit in 2002

The Snowdon Mountain Railway was opened – and closed – on Easter Monday in 1896 and thus the year 2021 is officially the railway’s 125th anniversary year. I visited this very special railway 19 years ago when exploring this part of Wales, and its railways. This is a photo story of my visit. The only...

My Anxiety – September 2021

It’s September 2021. I was reading what I had written last time regarding my anxiety. So I was feeling I have to update this a bit. But first, I am doing quite fine. It’s there, but I am able to handle it. I might still be lonely, that might have caused the whole problem several...

The Vanished St Pancras/King’s Cross Cityscape in Five Shots

Here are five photographs that I took exactly twenty years ago, on 17 September 2001, in an area between St Pancras and King’s Cross railway stations in London. I had written on my diary that after visiting bookstores and Science Museum I went to shoot gasholders. The strange thing is that I actually took only...

110 Years Old Elbe Tunnel in Photos

One of my favourite places in Hamburg has been the Old Elbe Tunnel, officially St. Pauli Elbtunnel. It opened on 7 September 1911. I have visited the tunnel three times, in 1 May 1999, 11 April 2006 and 18 May 2010 and took some photos there. Now it's time to show my pictures. The parts...