They were a series of photographs I took during the late 1970s into the ‘80s and have sat in our cellar for over thirty years.
They were taken in the old days of film, and were developed and printed in a dark room using smelly chemicals.
That said most never got beyond the stage of being negatives, and when I finally gave up on the hobby they were a neglected piece of history made all the more redundant because the enlarger, chemicals and all the other bits of chemical photography were thrown away.
But now with a new Christmas present which scans the negatives I am back in business.
The images are not always the best quality but they are a bit of our collective past
So here are the first of the hundreds, chosen at random, and are of the Steam Exposition at Castlefield on Saturday August 4 1980.
The old railway deport on Liverpool Road had closed and the Science and industry Museum had yet to move from Grosvenor Street and take over the site, and so on a Saturday in August lots of people came to enjoy the steam.
There was a band. lots of steam locomotives, a handful of vintage cars and buses and this old lady who had wandered into see what all the fus was about carrying her shopping bag and wearinger her slippers.
Location; Castlefield, 1980
Pictures; the Steam Exposition, 1980, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
That said most never got beyond the stage of being negatives, and when I finally gave up on the hobby they were a neglected piece of history made all the more redundant because the enlarger, chemicals and all the other bits of chemical photography were thrown away.
But now with a new Christmas present which scans the negatives I am back in business.
So here are the first of the hundreds, chosen at random, and are of the Steam Exposition at Castlefield on Saturday August 4 1980.
The old railway deport on Liverpool Road had closed and the Science and industry Museum had yet to move from Grosvenor Street and take over the site, and so on a Saturday in August lots of people came to enjoy the steam.
There was a band. lots of steam locomotives, a handful of vintage cars and buses and this old lady who had wandered into see what all the fus was about carrying her shopping bag and wearinger her slippers.
Location; Castlefield, 1980
Pictures; the Steam Exposition, 1980, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
No comments:
Post a Comment