KESR volunteers in spotlight as Victorian camera returns to its railway roots after 135 years
A Victorian camera that was used in the 1880s to take official photographs of locomotives built by Beyer Peacock at its Gorton works in Manchester, has taken on a new lease of life nearly 135 years later, photographing engines and volunteers on the Kent & East Sussex Railway.
The camera was designed and made by Josiah Chapman, a Manchester chemist and businessman, in 1886, and was used by James Mudd, a pioneer of industrial photography, and his assistant and
