In praise of the humble snap …… Victoria Railway Station almost half a century ago

I am a great fan of the snap, that picture often taken with a cheap camera, on a whim, and then forgotten about.

This is Victoria Railway Station taken on a warms summer’s day in 1979.

Even by those days the camera was not cheap, its just that I wasn’t that good at taking photographs.

Added to this it was a colour slide film which once processed sat in our cellar for four decades.

And as a storage place the cellar was not kind to the pictures, many of which have deteriorated.

Some have acquired a motley appearance while others have faded, and a few have a creeping fog which renders the image difficult to see.

Still this one at least offers up those platforms where you could catch the local train to Ashton Under Lyne where we lived in the 1970s and if you were adventurous on to Stalybridge.

So despite its poor quality it is record of what was once.

Location; Victoria Railway Station

Picture; waiting for the train, 1979, from the collection of Andrew Simpson