Catalogue description The Humphrey Household collection of railway photographs

Household was a prolific photographer and his images are generally good quality, atmospheric views of trains in motion. He photographed the GWR, including both trains and ferries, the LMS, Southern and London Electrics (Metropolitan) trains, the NER, Great Central, Great Eastern the Midland & South West Junction Railway and for the LNER locomotives, trains, engine sheds and Hull docks. He visited and recorded the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railway and the Derwent Valley and Nidd Valley Light Railways. The collection also includes views of narrow gauge railways, Welsh railways, the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, and the Harrogate Gas Co Railway. Household also photographed the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway (of the GER/LNER) in 1927 and 1928, and the construction of Scar House Dam in North Yorkshire between 1923 and 1928. He had a keen interest in industrial locomotives and quarrying, photographing the Leckhampton Quarries Co Ltd in 1923 and 1924. Other locations Household covered include the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Railway, the Swansea & Mumbles Railway and the Kent & East Sussex Railway.

The collection also features overseas railways, including the US Pullman Car Co, European Wagonlits and lines in France, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, the Canary Islands, South Africa and Serbia.

The Household collection also comprises the work of John St Aubyn FRPS with some forty-five glass, celluloid and stereo negatives covering the LBSCR and Southern Railway from about 1922 to 1959.

Over 750 images were identified by number, and catalogued by Household.

Household, Humphrey, fl 1906-1986, London & North Western Railway employee

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