NONESUCH SILVER PRINTS  
Unique photographs on silver from the 1950s and 1960s
from Nonesuch Expeditions
 

 

1953 ENGLAND A GWR (Great Western Railway) coal train headed by a Hall Class steam locomotive. The picture was taken from a footbridge over the track at Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, close to the point where one of Britain's worst railway disasters occurred in 1941 in which 39 people died. The edge of the old Norton Fitzwarren station platform is visible in the bottom of this image.

Camera. This picture was taken on an adapted Kodak Autographic Camera made in the 1920s. It had a Kodak Ballbearing shutter and the exposure was 1/100 a second with the aperture set to average view. The film was Kodak Verichrome developed by hand in Kodak Universal Developer.

Negative: UK 19-02 © Tony Morrison

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