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Pete S
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Header photo - passenger ferry 'Orcadia', Orkney North Isles, my photo 1990.
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Handsworth library, got me into art in the 1980s, marvellous.
A photo of a library card, placed on a page from a book about the Pre-Raphaelite artists.
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Standing stones at Callanish (or Calanais), Isle of Lewis.
My photo 1988.
A group of standing stones silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Evening at Bromford Bridge, Birmingham, looking in Washwood Heath direction.
I was having a go with a borrowed 500mm mirror lens.
My photo May 1978.
An evening railway scene. An extreme telephoto lens has been used - gives severe foreshortening. A train in the distance, its tail light just visible. Signals and other railway equipment, and two gas-holders in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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King's Cross station, London. My photo December 1977.
A night time photo of a scene at a major London terminus station (King's Cross) in December 1977. Two trains in the platforms, luggage trollies and a notice saying 'Danger do not connect engine to train, shore supply on'. Various buildings, some lit up, others in darkness.
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Whitemill Bay, Sanday, Orkney. My photo Jun 2010.
A photo of a sandy bay. Light-coloured sand, water of varying shades of blue, and a blue sky with light clouds.
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Birsay, Orkney. My photo 2009.
An evening photo looking towards the setting sun. A field in the foreground and a house with smoke rising from a chimney. Looking out over a loch (Boardhouse loch) with a hill in the background and a tower (Kitchener Memorial) showing on the skyline.
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Ex Great Central Railway loco 'Butler Henderson' at Loughborough. My photo 1984.
Steam loco (ex Great Central Railway 'Butler Henderson') in the foreground, with some blue and white coaches behind. Part of a factory building is in the background with a painted sign on its wall.
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Near Claypole, Lincolnshire. 55003. My photo Jul 1978.
A summer countryside scene. Fields and trees and a railway line running near left to far right. The yellow front of a diesel loco and the train's coaches stretching back into the distance.
October 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Near Tamworth, train approaching Coton Crossing. The wires are raised to give clearance at the level crossing. My photo July 1977.
A road heads off into the left hand distance. A Vincent motorbike in the foreground and a train approaching.
October 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Buildings at La Défense, Paris. My photo 2012.
Detail of modern buildings, La Défense, Paris.
September 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a cheese shop. My photo 2012.
Frontage of a cheese shop in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
September 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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A scene during the demolition of the old Birmingham Snow Hill station. My photo 1977.
A partly demolished station building. An interior wall with bare bricks, and remains of notices and pictures. More of the buildings and structures at the left hand side.
September 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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An easy mistake on a quick trip, the whole area there is full of archaeology - a World Heritage Site.
My photo of Stones of Stenness, 1991. They are bigger stones than Brodgar, but fewer of them.
A photo of three standing stones in a green field with a hill in the background and a blue sky with white clouds.
September 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Class A4 loco 4464 'Bittern' painted as 2509 'Silver Link', at Great Central Railway, Loughborough.
My photo June 1994.
A steam loco painted in shades of grey. Railway tracks in the foreground, parts of sheds visible, and a blue sky with white clouds.
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Grantham station, a then fairly new class 56 diesel on one of the early test trains.
My photo April 1977.
A scene at Grantham station, April 1977. Tracks in foreground, a signal at the left hand side, coaches at the right, a train approaching and trees in the distance.
September 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I got this camera for 'spares or repairs' to do a trial pulling it to bits before working on a good one. Maybe I could make a pinhole camera with this - put a piece of drinks can with a hole in it where the lens was.
The photo is of the Stones of Stenness, Orkney.
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An old camera with the lens removed and a piece of metal with a small hole in it put in place of the lens. The Stones of Stenness, Orkney. Photo usung a pinhole camera.
September 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Deserted buildings on the small island of Faray, Orkney, (pron. 'fairy'). Now abandoned, the last people left in 1947.
My photo Sept 1998.
Dark green grass, silhouettes of abandoned buildings and a blue sky with white clouds.
August 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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York diesel depot. My photo Dec 1979.
Photo inside York diesel depot. The side of a diesel loco, four pistons with con-rods attached on a rack. A trolley with engine parts.
August 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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My photo Aug 2025.
August 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Birmingham, Aston Expressway. My photo April 1980.
A night-time photo of a road with several lanes. Streaks of light from the lights of cars. A long road sign, and lights from buildings in the distance.
August 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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King's Cross station, London. My photo Feb 1978.
Loco is 55009.
A dark winter day at King's Cross station. A train is leaving, with a diesel loco's smoky exhaust. On the right hand side - a trolley loaded with bags, and coaches of another train.
August 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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King's Cross station, London. My photo Feb 1977.
Locos 55015 and 55016.
Three diesel locos in a rather dark interior of a station (King's Cross, London).
August 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Was looking through a 1970s Giles cartoon book and admiring his attention to detail.
My photo of twin-lens Rolleiflex, Aug 2025.
Part of a Giles cartoon of a wedding photographer from one of the books of his cartoons. A camera is on a tripod and the camera case and an open film box are on the ground. The photographer is attracting the attention of the group, about to take the photo. A photo of a Rolleiflex camera - in the foreground is the camera case, and the camera upright behind it.
August 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Birmingham's 'Air-Rail', the shuttle between the airport and the station. my photos 2012.
A photo from the inside of one of the cars, the same as the one shown. Raised trackwork, a small blue vehicle. A view from a small airport shuttle vehicle. Trackwork and modern multi-storey buildings.
July 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Paris - Gare du Nord, or Paris Nord.
My photo Oct 2014.
A scene at a station platform at Gare du Nord, Paris. Assorted railway equipment visible, and two members of staff examining something between the loco and a coach.
July 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM