shotrobert
Inclined
Wainhouse Tower, Halifax. January 2023
Ilford FP4+ pushed to iso 250
Ricoh 500G ZF35 zone focus (c1977)
Ilfotec LC 29 1:19 - 14 minutes
EPson 4490
What gives the tower its local name of The Tower of Spite is a dispute between Wainhouse and his neighbouring grandee, industrialist Sir Henry Edwards. The two men were forever squabbling on all sorts of matters in the local courts, and Edwards, a Justice of the Peace, had on occasion to stand down from the bench to fight his corner. Newspaper coverage of the time shows that those in the public gallery thoroughly enjoyed these spectacles, and their reaction is scattered throughout the reports in parentheses: (laughter), (groans), (hear hear), (applause).
One exchange centred on an accusation that Wainhouse had said that ‘if he had a knife, he would have plunged it into Edwards’.
Wainhouse denied this and was asked to vouch for his honesty:
Mr Bond: will you swear on that?
Mr Wainhouse: I will swear on that and he is a #x@£x@%**!
The two men appear to have gone out of their way to rile each other. In perhaps the ultimate example Wainhouse literally allowed the masses to look down on his enemy.
Inclined
Wainhouse Tower, Halifax. January 2023
Ilford FP4+ pushed to iso 250
Ricoh 500G ZF35 zone focus (c1977)
Ilfotec LC 29 1:19 - 14 minutes
EPson 4490
What gives the tower its local name of The Tower of Spite is a dispute between Wainhouse and his neighbouring grandee, industrialist Sir Henry Edwards. The two men were forever squabbling on all sorts of matters in the local courts, and Edwards, a Justice of the Peace, had on occasion to stand down from the bench to fight his corner. Newspaper coverage of the time shows that those in the public gallery thoroughly enjoyed these spectacles, and their reaction is scattered throughout the reports in parentheses: (laughter), (groans), (hear hear), (applause).
One exchange centred on an accusation that Wainhouse had said that ‘if he had a knife, he would have plunged it into Edwards’.
Wainhouse denied this and was asked to vouch for his honesty:
Mr Bond: will you swear on that?
Mr Wainhouse: I will swear on that and he is a #x@£x@%**!
The two men appear to have gone out of their way to rile each other. In perhaps the ultimate example Wainhouse literally allowed the masses to look down on his enemy.