Comments on: Say cheese… http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/ All reet for those who likes' laffin... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shades http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-1776 Shades Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:34:50 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/#comment-1776 Steve, great of you to drop by and add to the comments with the authority of having lived it for so long. I have occasionally thought about responding via the Morley Obtiser but I gather that the images I am interested in (New Pavilion Interiors) have already been searched for in vain by others. I had seen LO credited with various train photos around the web but I hadn't made the connection with York and didn't know there was a collection of his in there. Steve, great of you to drop by and add to the comments with the authority of having lived it for so long. I have occasionally thought about responding via the Morley Obtiser but I gather that the images I am interested in (New Pavilion Interiors) have already been searched for in vain by others. I had seen LO credited with various train photos around the web but I hadn’t made the connection with York and didn’t know there was a collection of his in there.

]]> By: stephen white http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-1775 stephen white Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:09:48 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/#comment-1775 I'm the bloke responsible for setting up the website to Leslie Overend, former freelance photographer in Morley. I was left the collection - and copyright to the negs - in Les's will when he died in 1989. The chap James Higham refers to (Whitby photographer) is Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, but he was around way before Leslie. Leslie's collection runs to tens of thousands of negs. Just sorting them out into some sort of order was a mammoth task. Even now many of the old glass plates, taken before 1954/55, remain without captions. Les did indeed take many pictures of steam trains - but sold the vast majority of his negs to the National Railway Museum. They reside in York as the Leslie Overend Collection - I think you can get more detail from the museum's website. If anyone would like more information about Leslie's collection, please email me at info@leslieoverend.com SteveW I’m the bloke responsible for setting up the website to Leslie Overend, former freelance photographer in Morley.
I was left the collection – and copyright to the negs – in Les’s will when he died in 1989.
The chap James Higham refers to (Whitby photographer) is Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, but he was around way before Leslie.
Leslie’s collection runs to tens of thousands of negs. Just sorting them out into some sort of order was a mammoth task.
Even now many of the old glass plates, taken before 1954/55, remain without captions.
Les did indeed take many pictures of steam trains – but sold the vast majority of his negs to the National Railway Museum.
They reside in York as the Leslie Overend Collection – I think you can get more detail from the museum’s website.
If anyone would like more information about Leslie’s collection, please email me at info@leslieoverend.com

SteveW

]]> By: Shades http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-1768 Shades Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:00:43 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/#comment-1768 Welshcakes- you say what a service he did, but he was the press photographer. He may have been freelance though, as I don't think Johnson Press has the copyright. For a man, that is the ideal career- just imagine getting paid for indulging your hobby! It seems he took pictures of trains as well so he was probably a steam buff. Welshcakes- you say what a service he did, but he was the press photographer. He may have been freelance though, as I don’t think Johnson Press has the copyright. For a man, that is the ideal career- just imagine getting paid for indulging your hobby!

It seems he took pictures of trains as well so he was probably a steam buff.

]]> By: Welshcakes Limoncello http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-1765 Welshcakes Limoncello Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:02:48 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/#comment-1765 Photos of localities are always interesting because you can see how the place has changed. What a service photographers like Overend do for their communities. Photos of localities are always interesting because you can see how the place has changed. What a service photographers like Overend do for their communities.

]]> By: Shades http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-1761 Shades Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:02:57 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/#comment-1761 James and Jams, there are no doubt hundreds of similar people all over Britain with similar collections but they don't always get preserved. This is a very generalist collection but unique by its breadth if not depth. Indeed our local hisorical society frequently despairs at what can end up in a skip after a house clearance. I'm in the will of a future benefactor for his extensive and irreplacable theatre collection archive. He is leaving some furniture to the Theatre Museum but all his books and research to me. I have to say I'm dreading that it will happen in the next ten years as the house isn't big enough and I'd have to break the collection up. I then have to determine a successor as well, assuming I outlive him. James and Jams, there are no doubt hundreds of similar people all over Britain with similar collections but they don’t always get preserved. This is a very generalist collection but unique by its breadth if not depth.

Indeed our local hisorical society frequently despairs at what can end up in a skip after a house clearance.

I’m in the will of a future benefactor for his extensive and irreplacable theatre collection archive. He is leaving some furniture to the Theatre Museum but all his books and research to me. I have to say I’m dreading that it will happen in the next ten years as the house isn’t big enough and I’d have to break the collection up. I then have to determine a successor as well, assuming I outlive him.

]]> By: jams o donnell http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-1758 jams o donnell Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:48:25 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/#comment-1758 What a wonderful site. It is this sort of site that makes the internet worthwhile. What a wonderful site. It is this sort of site that makes the internet worthwhile.

]]> By: jameshigham http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 jameshigham Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:40:50 +0000 http://iangrey.org/2007/12/08/say-cheese/#comment-1755 There was another chap and I can't remember the name, in the Whitby area around 1900. Such photos are so vital to get the feel of the times. There was another chap and I can’t remember the name, in the Whitby area around 1900. Such photos are so vital to get the feel of the times.

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