{"id":784324,"date":"2026-09-27T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784324\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:16:13","slug":"bradford-photographer-inspired-by-pubs-walks-for-new-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784324\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford photographer inspired by pubs walks for new exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beesley, who grew up in Eccleshill, said the walks and pubs in the exhibition were not the &#8220;pastoral ideals&#8221; often featured on TV programmes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Particularly if you live in a city, if you live in a post-industrial area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What you normally do if you&#8217;re walking to a pub, you&#8217;re probably walking down a nondescript street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You might go down a snicket, you might go across a bit of industrial wasteland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the idea that it&#8217;s good for you to walk and the benefits of walking and walking with a friend.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But also the other thing is it doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re walking in the countryside or the urban environment &#8211; it&#8217;s just as good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The thing I&#8217;m putting forward is if you actually walk through the post-industrial landscape it&#8217;s amazing what you can see.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beesley, who grew up in Eccleshill, said the walks and pubs in the exhibition were not the &#8220;pastoral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}