Ian Stubbs (Bolckow) is Middlesbrough born and bred and extremely proud of it and lived here since 1955. (so you can all work out how old I am!). Married father of two and grand father. Local historian, author, ("Middlesbrough A Century of Change" with Jenny Parker published by The History Press - see sample pics in set of that name) www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/middlesbrough/97807... retired Asistant Museum Curator, still a Lecturer, researcher, historical adviser and broadcaster.
Member of The Captain Cook Society.
Post Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies (Faculty of Arts, Newcastle University, 2000). "Colligo ergo sum" “I collect, therefore I am.”
Chairman of the Middlesbrough Heritage Group. See the Middlesbrough page on openplaques.org
Committee Member of Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society (C&TLHS)
Member of the "Friends of Linthorpe Cemetery and Nature Reserve"
Member and Director of The Tees Heritage Trust.
Volunteer researcher and photographer for War Graves Online and The Gravestone Resource Project
Volunteer photographer for the national war memorials online project
Eyes On Hands On (EOHO) Volunteer for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (C.W.G.C.) www.cwgc.org/
Volunteer Tour Guide for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (C.W.G.C.) www.cwgc.org/
All photos are taken by me and and my son James (his pics are mostly but not always, trains, transport, military, industrial, police, fire, other emergency services and vehicles etc. His are mostly taken with the Sony DSLR and Nikon Coolpix AW110 and also Apple i-Phone11;) my daughter Rosemary; her albums include Port Sunlight, The British Museum, London, St. Hilda's, Battlefields of France and Belgium, Cuba; and my wife June Elizabeth has also been taking pics where she visits places so I can add them, Two of my sisters and my oldest nephew now do the same for me too!!! (they are all credited as the photographers).
"A country without heritage has no future." - African Proverb
"When we build, let us think that we build forever." - John Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849).
"Industry without art is brutality" - John Ruskin, "A Lecture on Art" - 1870
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” ― Andy Warhol.
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” - Ray Bradbury
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cameras:-
Kodak V1233 Zoom
Kodak Easy Share Camera, M552. (Bolckow)
Sony DSC-RX100 (Bolckow default as of October 2015)
Sony DSC-RX100M5A (Bolckow default as of August 2023)
My phones
TCL 5033X_EEA
Apple iPhone 11 back dual wide camera
Cameras:-
Sony DSLR-A390
and Sony SLT-A65V. (My son).
TEESSIDE (54:30:33N, 1:25:45W, Elev 120 Ft)
I have visited the U.K. because I live there, and also France, Germany, Malta, Norway, Scotland and Turkey
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All of my Images are under copyright © Ian Stubbs.
All rights, for any usage, are reserved worldwide. They must not be used, downloaded, shared or reproduced in any way without my express permission. Copyright and Photographers. ... Photographs are protected by copyright just like any other piece of creative work, and is protected in UK law by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and some EU directives that came into force in 1989, and under these acts they come under the classification 'Artistic Work'.
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If you would like to use one of my images for any reason, and many people have, please contact me, it's easy just send me a flickr mail.
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