Household Collection
- Made:
- 1893-1986
Photographs, a collection of approximately 453 silver gelatin glass negatives, 3½ x 2½ ins to 4¼ x 3¼ ins and 437 film negatives on cellulose nitrate and safety stock, 35 mm to 4¼ x 3¼ ins. Featuring the Great Western Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway, Southern and London Electrics, North Eastern Railway, Great Central Railway, Great Eastern Railway, Midland & South Western Junction Railway and London & North Eastern Railway locomotives, trains, engine sheds and Hull docks. Also Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway, Derwent Valley and Nidd Valley Light Railways, narrow gauge railways, Welsh railways, Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway and Harrogate Gas Co. Railway. Collection also features Wisbech & Upwell Tramway, construction of Scar House Dam, North Yorkshire, Leckhampton quarries, Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway, Swansea & Mumbles Railway, Kent & East Sussex Railway, and the railways of the USA, France, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Canary Islands, South Africa and Serbia. c1893-1986. Mainly the work of H G W Household, but also including 41 negatives by John St Aubyn FRPS and copy negatives by Household. Complete with register of Household negatives.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Collections (Railway)
- Object Number:
- 1996-7886
- type:
- photographs
- credit:
- Household, H.G.W.