On Saturday 18th March 2023, BBC Radio Scotland’s programme Out of Doors broadcasted an interview about Travel in Time and the W.S. Thomson series.
It is highly recommended to listen to the entire programme. If you don’t feel like it, you can fast-forward to 56:00. The programme is available until 17th April 2023.
This is the highlighted photograph of Edinburgh Castle taken by W.S. Thomson from the Princes Street Gardens.
One of the interviews was recorded on the old Invercauld Bridge. That bridge was also pictured in W.S. Thomson’s The Highlands in Colour.
Photo book on Lochaber, Scotland
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Series
A series on the more than 70 villages in the Melton Mowbray Borough. An eclectic selection of old pictures and postcards from the end of the 19th century to the 1970s, highlighting each village with one or more views and their stories: street views, buildings, remarkable trees, monuments, local pubs, churches and chapels…
Old photograph: © W.S. Thomson
The Scottish photographer W.S. Thomson MBE (1906-1967) roamed his country from the 1940s to the 1960s. He left hundreds of photographs (see map) published in books and as postcards, which make a unique series of landscape photos in a timeframe of developing Scottish tourism.
Old postcard: Valentine Series
Brings the history of its places from the 19th century up to the post-World War II period back to life. Additional to the joint Woodland Trust and National Trust project to reconnect Grantham to its historic landscape, highlighting Londonthorpe Woods, Belton Park, Bellmount Tower and Alma Park Wood.
Highlighting the past of the Grantham Canal and showing the past of the bridges, locks, wharves, winding holes, towpaths and buildings along the canal.
Earlier series
When still living on the continent, I completed two series on two villages in the southwest of The Netherlands near the Belgian border with local historian André Bauwens and local photographer Peter Verdurmen.
The project, originally in Dutch, was called Zo was het | Zo is het (As it was | As it is). Each series comprised a book, an outdoor exhibition and online interviews. The website is now part of this Travel in Time website.
Discover the remakes and stories…
Discover the remakes and stories…
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