The LNER Encyclopedia

Hope these are of interest - I have a 1917 Kodak No 2 Autographic camera, which I can still get film for as it uses 120mm film available from Ilford. I've been using it to take photographs over the past few years and have been using it a lot more often this year.



The camera itself

Photographs taken in 2008;



Cross of sacrifice at Tezze British Cemetery, Italy



Privates Lambert and Knowles of the Middlesex and York & Lancs Regiments respectively, on the Piave



Italian troops prior to the crossing of the Piave



A canal running by an old mill in Yorkshire



Canal basin and industrial buildings in the West Midlands

Photographs taken this year;



Nearly the same viewpoint as the Black Country Museum photograph taken in 2008, this was taken in January 2011



1915 Motor Narrowboat 'Peacock'



Men of 'The Warwicks 1914-18 Living History Group'



High Force, in Teesdale, County Durham



Hendon's 1915 Watch Office



1923 built North Eastern Railway Y7 Locomotive number 985 leaving the reconstructed Rowley Railway Station at Beamish



The train passing the Hall's Distemper advertisement





Garage and Motor Showroom in the 1913 Beamish Town



Sunderland Tram 16



A view of the Garage and Co-Operative



Gateshead Tram 10



Industrial equipment behind a Coal Mine



1914 British Infantry in camp







Small section on the march



1916 British infantry in camp



Officer's tent



1916 Matchless motorcycle and sidecar with Vickers machine gun of the Motor Machine Gun Corps





Battle order, 1916



Moving up the line on the War Department Light Railway, 1917



Royal Flying Corps Crossley Tender



RFC Pilot and Observer

Very nice, too. An antique camera taking shots of bygone scenes seem to give the photos a quality of antiquity itself. Thanks.

I agree with Giners remarks above. BTW was the Halls distemper advert on the ECML near Cramlington. I remember seeing an ad like this from a window of a Newcastle bound DMU.

52D wrote:I agree with Giners remarks above. BTW was the Halls distemper advert on the ECML near Cramlington. I remember seeing an ad like this from a window of a Newcastle bound DMU.

there used be another halls distemper sign at south gosforth east junction in company with another of the same ilk but i cant recollect what it was like

Smashing photographs! Can you imagine a modern age digital camera still working when it is over 90 years old? I dont think so!
What speed is the film you are using?

Really top shots, very evocative. You would not really know they were modern. Do you do all the developing yourself?
thanks
Simon

Hi Simon, I cheat i'm afraid - my brother studies photography at University so he develops them for me (he used to do them at college but moved to Uni this year, hence the large gap in having any processed). Originally I had Jessops develop them but the cost was so, so prohibitive it wasn't always worth it when I can't guarantee the results of the photographs

My latest batch of three films - still another two slightly older ones to be done in the new year



Sentinel six wheel steam bus



Newcastle Tram 114 of 1901



Royal Flying Corps Pilot in Sidcot suit



RFC Air Mechanics



1914 Sunbeam Tourist Trophy Racer



1911 Daimler 38hp Landaulette



Whitby's old Lifeboat Station





1904 Humberette (one of the first movie star cars - a Humberette like this starred in 'The ? Motorist' - http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com ... -1906.html )



Two RFC Air Mechanics



It's 1914, and the recruits of the 'Durham Pals', who haven't received their uniforms yet and so are still in civilian clothes, are learning to fire the SMLE (Short Magazine Lee Enfield) Rifle



On the march







Edwardian North Eastern Railway tiled map, installed around 1901 and still on display at Whitby railway station

Here's my latest batch;



Boer War 17th Lancers



Boer War British Infantry





Early WW1 - new recruits for the Durham Pals Battalion, still in civilian clothing, are taught to fire the Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle





Men being instructed on the use of the Webley Mk VI Revolver



A well earned break for fish and chips



A 1917 Ford Model T Ambulance



German Soldiers of IR28



French 'Poilus' in camp



French soldiers at a Hotchkiss machine gun position





British soldiers in a trench, 1916



Recently returned from the front, these men of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment are having a break in a small Estaminet set up in a camp



Two Royal Flying Corps Pilots of a Home Defence Squadron