Christmas Gifts
T E Williams - The Lost Colour Collection - Volume 3
IF YOU are looking for something unique as a gift or treating yourself this Christmas then Volume 3 of The Lost Colour Collection will not disappoint.
This further book adds to Volumes 1 and 2, published by Irwell Press, and provides a unique and fascinating window on late-1950s and early-1960s British Railways – and all in colour!
T E (Tom) Williams was somewhat of a pioneer when it came to the use of colour film. His interest was railways, but he also had an excellent eye for composition and getting that‘different’picture.
The images have been compiled by the late Tom’s sons, Phil and Owen, with the former spending hours painstakingly restoring each plate used. There are plenty of ex-GWR locomotives pictured in different settings, not least in and around Warwickshire, as Tom lived in GWR territory at Stratford-upon-Avon.
However, Volume 3 includes a Journey to Foreign Parts chapter, which features images of an ex-LMS‘Black Five’under newly erected but not wired OHE girders at Easenhall; ex-LNER‘A4’Silver Fox in 1962 at New Barnet; ex-SR‘Merchant Navy’, complete with Golden Arrow headboard, at Victoria; and an ex-LMS ‘Jubilee’emerging from the now-defunct Catesby Tunnel on the Grand Central.
Other shots include an ex-MR Fowler Compound climbing Hatton Bank and ex-GWR Lode Star in ex-works condition on a Pickfords Road Tractor. These are only a small sample from this third volume of what is truly a‘discovery’of excellent previously unseen photographs.
The narrative with each image is comprehensive and fascinating.
The Lost Colour Collection Volume 3 gives much pleasure, is a fitting addition to Volumes One and Two, and
