Catalogue description W E Hayward ('Weh-Lyn') collection of official railway lantern slides

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Details of The Hayward Collection
Reference: The Hayward Collection
Title: W E Hayward ('Weh-Lyn') collection of official railway lantern slides
Description:

Features scenic publicity photographs of places served by the railways. There are images of Yorkshire, East Anglia, Lincolnshire, Scotland, Northumberland, Durham and the Isle of Man; a lantern slide lecture on York includes views of the original Queen Street Railway Museum founded by the North Eastern Railway; there are also images of Horwich Works, Germany and Switzerland.

 

The lanternslides are accompanied by scripts used in lectures. They are available for consultation by special request. A small number of the Horwich slides are also held as negatives in the official works collections
Date: c1920-1950
Held by: Search Engine (National Railway Museum), not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Hayward, W E, fl 1920-1950
Physical description: Approx 2,265 slides
Administrative / biographical background:

The collection is sometimes known as the 'Weh-Lyn' collection, a combination of Hayward's initials and the name of his house.

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