Catalogue description W Beckerlegge collection of railway photographs

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Details of The Beckerlegge Collection
Reference: The Beckerlegge Collection
Title: W Beckerlegge collection of railway photographs
Description:

Comprises 4¼ x 3¼ ins glass negatives, mainly copies of LMS official photographs from the inter-war years, together with a small number of earlier images featuring the Caledonian Railway, some of which date from the 1890's.
Date: c1923 --1939
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Beckerlegge, W, fl 1923-1948, railway photographer, of Brighton
Physical description: 107 negatives
Subjects:
  • Railway transport
Administrative / biographical background:

Beckerlegge, who lived in Brighton, was a prominent member of the Stephenson Locomotive Society from its early days. He was a prolific photographer who covered the operations of many different companies and his collection was acquired by the NRM in 1985, as part of the archive of Kenneth Leech. The majority of Beckerlegge's negatives, however, form part of the Photomatic collection.

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