WELCOME TO MY PHOTO GALLERY
I hope you enjoy looking round and would welcome any comments and further information you have. This blog is to help you find your way around the gallery by telling you what's new and giving you tips on using the gallery. I will continue to expand it and if there's any topic you think needs clarifying, please let me know.
Manchester and Ashton trolleybuses
I've added a smaller gallery on the trolleybuses of these two operators, the majority of the material relates to the last months of operation and features the final tour. The gallery is at http://davidbeilby.zenfolio.com/f480400271
New photos
The Christmas/New Year break has given me time to add to the gallery again, developing some new themes introduced in the last year. A second gallery from South Wales sees my tribute to Pontypridd Urban District Council, later Taff-Ely Borough Council. With 127 photos it is quite a large gallery and I was rather surprised to find I had so much material on this operator. Despite being the largest UDC operator the fleet size peaked at around fifty buses. The gallery can be found at http://davidbeilby.zenfolio.com/f533760805 and here is a sample:
Another theme developed this year is industrial railways. I visited a lot of installations (mainly collieries) in the early seventies and took a lot of photos almost exclusively of steam locos, but most have remained as negatives until now. I'm approaching it on a location-by-location basis, adding all my material relevant to the location at the same time. So far I have covered two pits in the Barnsley area with a small gallery relating to Emley Moor colliery (Skelmanthorpe) and a much larger one at North Gawber colliery (Mapplewell). Industrial steam photos are at http://davidbeilby.zenfolio.com/f817456669:
Finally, a bit more on a more familiar theme is a small selection of Rotherham trolleybuses. Some of these appeared in the recent Middleton Press book on Rotherham trolleybuses and it was only as a result of that I came to realise that the English Electric photographer captured some rarely-seen locations and workings. Enjoy a few Daimler trolleybuses at http://davidbeilby.zenfolio.com/p216309036:
I hope to add another Saddleworth Buses update before long. Thanks for looking!
English Electric factory aerial view
For those spending some time looking at the English Electric bus photographs in particular, there is a 1937 view of the site on the Britainfromabove website which can help orientate you. The photograph attached provides a link to the specific view.
Saddleworth Buses - Last gallery added
The end of a six-year project is nigh! The last planned gallery on Saddleworth's Buses has been completed tonight and new ones will only be added if there are new developments that warrant it. This last gallery focuses on the coach services which passed through Saddleworth without stopping and can be found at:
http://davidbeilby.zenfolio.com/p385437336
What will follow soon are a series of updates to complete the project, as much as a project of this nature can ever be finished!
Thank you all for your interest over the years.
A note on dates and times
I try to give date information whenever I can. Digital photographs have the date contained in the EXIF data and this is read by the Zenfolio software and displayed following the title "Taken" in the top left hand corner of the image page. However, in the case of scanned images there is no EXIF data and it displays the date of the file, which is not the date of the photograph. I have therefore adopted the following convention so that you know which date to believe!
Digital photos always use the EXIF data and display it with the title "Taken". I don't then normally put a date in the caption.
Scanned images will have no EXIF data. On the right hand side they will say "No EXIF information is available" which is how you determine that they are scanned images. If I have date information I will put it in the caption, except where the image is one clearly taken at the same time as the previous photograph.
When a gallery is composed entirely of scanned images I will sometimes disable the "Date taken" display to avoid confusion. At the moment this has mainly been done with the Bradford trolleybus gallery.
If you look at the EXIF data that will also give the time of the photograph. I always now set my camera on GMT and leave it at that as that remains constant and adjustments can always be carried out to correct to local time afterwards. In practice I couldn't guarantee changing the time zone at exactly the right time in autumn and spring and also whenever i travelled to or from abroad. This does not apply to photographs from 2006 and a few in July 2010 (new camera syndrome!).