Neil
Western Thunderer
Earlier this week I saw the final episode in the excellent BBC series, Britain in Focus. As well as featuring the work of John Bulmer whose fantastic book, The North, I recommended some time ago it also mentioned Leeds photographer Peter Mitchell. The images rang a bell as many years ago I picked up a set of postcards of his work from Leeds art gallery. I was taken on many trips to Leeds from my home in York when I was growing up during the sixties and seventies and these photos bring memories flooding back. Here's a link to some of his work depicting the Leeds of that era. Though it captures that era to a T, it looks significantly different to most models set in that time and place. I'm convinced that many modellers while building or buying accurate models of stock and railway structures appropriate to the sixties and seventies than go on to surround them with domestic and industrial architecture more suited to recent times. Many art photos are monochrome, these colour images are particularly valuable as they set the scene over the railway boundary fence in an unambiguous way.