Suddenly there's a rash of 'inside Standedge' photos on Flickr. The latest is the Standedge Tunnel set from the user 'Urban Outlaw', and was apparently taken yesterday lunchtime (if the date in the camera was set correctly).
My favourite of the set is this untitled one, because it shows a sense of the scale of the tunnel. It appears to have been lit by a torch held to the left of the photographer, and makes the place feel like an empty film set, waiting for a ghostly lighting director to materialise.
The photo 'Tunnel ghosts' tries to suggest exactly that, but I guess it simply shows the three or four photographers who made the trip. Is this tunnel just available for people to stroll into casually, or is there a booking system? How do you get into it?
It set me thinking about what I could do with this tunnel. I'd love to go in with some sophisticated lighting and illuminate the whole three miles, positioning the lights within the Standedge canal tunnel adits (cross tunnels) to highlight their position.
Other ideas might include a fashion shoot within the tunnel. Or a time-lapse of a walk-through, perhaps punctuated with little son et lumiere tableaux at each adit, telling the story of the men and women and children who worked the tunnel and the Huddersfield Canal two centuries ago.
And I can imagine a 'conceptual art' installation of (men dressed as) soldiers marching in a line into the dark depths - towards their doom - raw recruits, as it were, for Pluto.
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