Visited Halifax for a change and wandered round a very sparsely populated Piece Hall though there was lots set up for people to do, there were very few people there. The shops also seemed to be only partially occupied – however there was a show in the Gallery – Nudrat Afza and Paul Floyd Blake‘s images of Park Ward – an area of Halifax. Alongside the artist’s photographs there was some engaging images from a local school. Nudrat Afza‘s photographs were B&W images of Pakistani’s living in the area. Some nice shots from a good photographer. Paul Floyd Blake an ex-student of Bradford College photography course had photographed residents including people from the Caribbean – and there were some text describing people’s experience of moving to the UK – how they felt when the first arrived – one story of how on arriving one man had been taken upstairs to a cold top floor room and told this is where he would sleep. It wasn’t what he had expected on leaving the Caribbean and the reality of the UK for some of these people was far from their dreams of this new land.