General Information
During the year 2000 D J Clark built a visual record of the Lancaster &
Morecambe district using photographs and information submitted by those that
feature in the pictures. The project was conducted in association with Lancaster
Museum and has been archived for future generations to look back at the district
at the turn of the new Millennium. For more information on the project visit
the information page. If you find a caption is
wrong or there is a fault with the page please e-mail D
J Clark.
Date:
January 1st 2000
Location: Various
Photographer's Diary
Maggie woke me at 8 AM on her way in and said it was dull and overcast. The news was much appreciated as a bright morning meant pictures of dawn. I never got back to sleep and at 9 I rose to find the sun trying to break through. I set off around town to find the 2000 sun lighting up the City as a gesture of hope for the next 1000 years. I drove around the City to get a handful of safe images. The only picture I was really excited about was a man in a telephone booth silhouetted against the sun and Ashton Memorial.
On returning with a paper, I sat in front of the television for four hours watching a video tape of the events I had missed around the world the night before. Paris was fantastic, and London too. If I had not been in Lancaster I would most certainly have been in London.
As the day drew to a close I went with Maggie and my two boys to a family party on the marsh. We drank, sang and ate, trying to make up for the missed celebrations of the night before. We were all tired and I was no longer in the mood for celebrating. This was just another family party. The night before was very different.