PHOTOSTREAM & ALL ALBUMS UPDATED UP TO AND INCLUDING MONDAY 09 JUNE JUNE 2025

 

PHOTOS TO BE ADDED WHEN TIME ALLOWS - 640 SCANNED SLIDES

 

Welcome to my Flickr site, the main purpose of this site is to display photographs taken since the 19th Century of my family and friends along with my main two hobby's railways and tramways. Why is it called 'Ian10B'? The reason is that for a short period of time in the 1960's '10B' was the British Railways steam locomotive shed code for Preston and later Blackpool North, the two places that I am connected with.

 

ALBUMS The best way to view my images is to look at the subject you are interested in their respective album

 

NOTE: All the photos displayed on this site are displayed to give everyone pleasure in viewing them and I have set Flickr settings to prevent them from being downloaded. Despite this several images have been “lifted” and placed on to other websites including facebook. Therefore please note that you do NOT have my permission to copy, reproduce, manipulate, publish or distribute on any medium (including websites and blogs) without explicit written permission. In particular on Bispham... Past and Present, Blackpool Past - The Original! and History of Blackpool and any other local history groups. This also applies to all railway, tram, tramway, bus and trolleybus groups. The best way to let others see a photograph is to make a direct link this Flickr page. © All rights reserved. As far as it is known Information relating to each image was correct on the date of downloading.

 

Photographs on here have mainly been taken by myself, my family or friends. If possible I always try and credit each photograph to the actual photographer and I am very grateful to them for kindly allowing me to display photographs taken by them over the years. There are also some pre digital camera photographs on here which over the years I have bought or they have been given to me. These images simply say “Ian 10B collection” as the original photographer or source of the photograph is unknown. I will remove any of these photos if anyone can prove that they own the original negative / colour slide / copyright and does not want them displayed on here.

 

COLOUR SLIDES

August 1968 - August 2011, I took around 18,000 colour slides, of these 14,700 were scanned and digitally enhanced over a seven year period 2015 - 2023 and they have been/will be placed on to here by the end of 2025.

 

JIM INGHAM COLLECTION

Some years after the death of my good friend Jim Ingham who sadly died suddenly in May 1980 his widow Maureen offered me his collection of slides, photographs, black & white negatives and tramway memorabilia. I bought these from her. Stuart Ibbotson and I then split the slides between us and I also retained the majority of his black and white prints and all the negatives. Any remaining slides and some of his tramway memorabilia were then sold at Fylde Tramway Society (FTS) meetings to help raise funds for the restoration of Blackpool Brush railcoach 298 (635). In 2011 in order to make space at my house anything remaining tramway memorabilia was donated to the Lancastrian Transport Trust, now renamed Fylde Transport Trust. The majority of Jim's slides that I own have now been scanned and are/will be displayed on here. The photographs and negatives have yet to be scanned, hopefully during 2025/2026. I own the copyright for all images taken by Jim Ingham that are displayed in my flickr photo-stream

 

PAUL HENRY ABELL COLLECTION

My friend Paul Abell who I had known for 51 years died suddenly in October 2021. In August 2022 I was offered all his transport slides by his family. In October 2022 I acquired all of his tramway, trolleybus and bus slides that I was interested in mainly Blackpool, Bradford, Isle of Man, Portugal and Canada covering the years 1970 – 1975. Another friend agreed to take all his railway and aircraft slides and he had many of these scanned during 2022/2023. I have also had Paul's slides that were added to my collection scanned and these will be placed on flickr during 2024/2025 as time permits. The remainder of the tram slides were then sold by the family to an enthusiast in the midlands.

 

OTHER TRAMWAY NEGATIVES AND SLIDES GIVEN TO ME

Over the years I have been given around 20 original black & white negatives and prints from other tramway enthusiasts of photographs that they had taken. Some of these have still to be scanned and they include photographs of Blackpool and Llandudno trams taken by Keith Pearson and Nigel Jolliffe.

 

RESCUED PRINTS AND SLIDES

During 1985/1986 I was given several hundred black & white photographs which were being disposed of, these were taken between the 1930’s and the 1960’s by Blackpool photographers Saidman Brothers. Many of the negatives some of which were glass plate no longer exist and I know that I in some cases I have the only copies of the photos many of which are 10” x 8” or 7” x 5” hence the good quality of them. If it was not for a friend and I many of these would have simply been thrown away at that time, these include photos of the demolition of the Palace buildings and the building of the Lewis’s store in Blackpool. I gave any duplicates I had to Ted Lightbown of the Blackpool Historical Society. Most of these photographs have now been scanned

 

County Surveyor's Department, Lancashire County Council

From 1967 the majority of Lancashire County Councils County Surveyors Department photographs and archives were kept in the basement of ‘Guild House’ Cross Street, Preston. During the early l990’s a clear out of a section of the basement began and I managed to rescue from disposal a few slides and some opening brochures for the motorways that were built in the North West (Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside).

 

In the mid – late 1990’s one of my work colleagues and friend Mike Stevens started to sort out what was left so that it could be transferred to the Lancashire County Council Records Office on Bow Lane, Preston. Unfortunately Mike became seriously ill and his efforts ceased, by this time I had moved jobs and was working in Blackpool otherwise I would have continued his project. Sadly in the end most of the photographs, plans and slides of the construction of motorways and other major road schemes in the North West were destroyed when the building was vacated a few years later. Some of very few photographs, slides and opening brochures that I rescued in the early 1990’s that i now own have now been scanned and placed on here, more will be added from 2023. I just wish that I had managed to save more of the rare photographs from destruction.

 

ALBUMS

The best way to view my images is to look at the subject you are interested in their respective album. The second way to look at the photographs is to view them all randomly page by page. You can also view a photo at a larger size than you first see on here.

 

The photographs on this site are in various categories shown below.

 

Family

Mum & Dad and I. Mum’s relatives (with a section for those living in Holland), Dad’s relatives. Also friends of my Mum & Dad are included. All the family and friends "photographs" (not slides) that I have are now on here.

 

Friends

Most of my friends I have met through school, college, work or hobbies. Some have just been met by chance such as by starting to talk to them on a train.

 

School & Work

Infant and Junior School photos. Lancashire County Council (LCC); Photos taken between 1973 and 1998 while working at the County Surveyors Department or the Headquarters of the North Western Road Construction Unit (NWRCU).

 

Army

Dad during Word War II, in England, Belgium, France and Holland (1940 - 1946).

 

Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows

Dad joined when he 15 (1930) and was a member for over 75 years. The last meeting he attended was in June 2006.

 

Preston Light Orchestra

Dad played the Violin and was in this Orchestra for 57 years (1933 - 1990).

 

Preston Ramblers & Holiday Fellowship

Aunty May was a member of both these clubs. Photos of May, her friends and other members along with some of her walks are included. Some photos date back to the 1920's.

 

Gardens and Houses

The gardens of my present house, Mum and Dads house and Aunty May’s house are shown, along with gardens and houses of other Relatives and Friends.

 

Year by Year

All the above are also displayed in chronological year by year order starting in 1888 through to the present day.

 

Hobbies

Railways (UK) Tramways (UK & World-wide)

 

I have also placed on here a few railway photographs taken between 1966 and 1968 of locomotives in the Blackpool and Preston area. These are mainly black and white photos scanned from 3" by 3" prints and are not good quality. Unfortunately the negatives for these photos were lost in the Summer of 1970, so it's not possible to reprint them. I took black and white and also a few colour prints for about three years before going over to colour slides on Tuesday 06 August 1968 just five days before the end of steam on British Railways. My last slide was taken on Saturday 02 July 2011.

 

Other hobbies / interests

I also take photos of the following: People (Family, friends, groups, portraits and candid); Cooking and food; Goth /alternative; Fell walking; Historic buildings; Local history; Public Houses and real ale related; Historic buildings; Scenery and views.

 

Holidays

In the UK and abroad, including America, Canada, China, Hong Kong also Eastern and Western Europe.

 

If space permits a couple of paragraphs will eventually be written for each "Set" of photographs ie, each relative or friend or subject etc.

 

My Cameras

Canon SLR EOS 550D.

Bought June 2011 this is my primary camera (and my first digital camera).

First used: Saturday 18 June 2011

 

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS16.

Bought July 2011 to use on occasions when it is not practical to have the Canon camera with me.

First used: Friday 08 July 2011. Hardly used since 2024.

 

Samsung Galaxy S24 (2024) Mobile phone

Bought Friday 21 June 2024, to replace my Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017). It is used when it is not practical to have the Canon camera with me.

First used: Saturday 20 July 2024

 

Cameras (Film) I own but are no longer used

Ilford Sporti

New circa 1960 / 1961, made by Dacora in West Germany and has a Kamerawerk Reutlingen lens

I have never used this camera. It uses120 films (12 pictures)

 

Kodak Instamatic 133-X.

First used: 1970.

Last used: Sunday 03 September 1972

 

Olympus OM-2 SP

First used: Friday 21 November 1986.

Last in regular use: Monday 06 November 1989

Used occasionally between Sunday 06 July 2003 and Friday 27 May 2005

 

Olympus XA 2

First used: Saturday 05 May 1990

Last used: Friday 13 June 2003

 

Minolta AF101R

First used: Saturday 28 June 2003

Last used: Thursday 03 July 2003

 

Minolta Dynax 5,

First used Monday 13 August 2003

Las used Saturday 02 July 2011

 

Mobile Phone Cameras (Digital), I own although no longer used

Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)

Bought February 2017, used on occasions when it was not practical to have the Canon camera with me, also mainly took over from the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS16

Last used mid-June 2024

 

Other film cameras I have owned but no longer have

Kodak Instamatic 25

This was my very first camera

First used: Saturday 18 June 1966

Last used: 1970 (exact date not known)

Disposal: 1970 Scrapped

 

Praktica (Pentacon) LTL

This was my first SLR camera

First used: Sunday 27 August 1972

Last used: Saturday 12 June 1976

Disposal: Sold (date not known)

 

Olympus OM-1 MD

First used: Thursday 24 June 1976

Last used: Sunday 14 September 1986

Disposal: Friday 19 September 1986; Lost (left on a train) :(

 

TO BE CONTINUED ....................

 

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