Our plan is to digitise the whole collection (there are 1,000 of them) and to identify where the pictures were taken. In some cases, the subject is obvious, but some are difficult to pin down and we appealed to members for help in recognising the locations.
This photograph of the vintage paddle steamer the Waverley, is a good example. We can see that she is on one of her occasional trips along the Bristol Channel but we needed to work out both the beach and the direction of travel, as the slide may have been reversed when copied.
Thanks to many who contacted us to help, we have now confirmed that the photograph was taken from the beach at the Salmon Weir at Lynmouth and that the original photograph was reversed incorrectly. Waverley is sailing westwards as shown in this additional photograph from our Brian Pearce archive collection.
