Historian of C20th leisure, with a special interest in cinema-going and audience taste, follower of Portsmouth FC - seen some ups and downs...Views my own
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ALT Image shows a screenshot of Rob James's Bluesky page with the handle @robtjames.bsky.social
ALT Posed railway staff safety photograph, captioned 'Into the jaws of death', and showing a railwayman stepping out of the way of an approaching train, but into the path of a train approaching on another line.
ALT Eight pull-up banners, from the 'South coast's forgotten railway workers' exhibition, stood on a red carpet, around the edges of a room. The banners introduce railway work before 1939 in the Portsmouth area, and some of the employees' life stories. Above the banners and behind, a sign says 'Portsmouth History Centre', with 'Portsmouth 100' bunting on the ceiling.
ALT Close-up of a plaque attached to a wooden bench; it reads 'In memory of a Wilmcote man, George Booker, killed working on this railway 24th March 1922'
ALT A grassed cemetery, with the image focusing on a shared headstone and four footstones. Each of the footstones has a bunch of daffodils.
ALT A brick-built railway station building, with canopy over the platform, stands behind a group of people. Railway tracks are to the fore.
ALT Early twentieth-century Great Western Railway station, with lattice footbridge with a cover, a roadbridge over the line in the distance, trees and greenery around, and platforms and tracks running through the centre of the image. A brick-built station building stands to the right of the image, and outside it sit two GWR-style benches.
ALT Eight pull-up banners, from the 'South coast's forgotten railway workers' exhibition, stood on a red carpet, around the edges of a room. The banners introduce railway work before 1939 in the Portsmouth area, and some of the employees' life stories. Above the banners and behind, a sign says 'Portsmouth History Centre', with 'Portsmouth 100' bunting on the ceiling.
ALT Photograph of a poster in a frame, titled 'the accident can only be attributed to want of care on his part', detailing the life of goods porter Thomas Smith, on a waiting room wall, with a window beyond. Through the window the station platform and railway tracks can be seen.
ALT Logo with '100' in gold, with the middle '0' containing the star and crescent from Portsmouth's coat of arms. Underneath in blue text 'Portsmouth 1926-2026'.
ALT Photograph of a poster in a frame, titled 'Working at, but not for, the railway at Petersfield', on a waiting room wall, with a window beyond. Through the window platform and tracks can be seen. A piece of green tinsel sits over the poster frame.
ALT Photograph of a poster in a frame, titled 'A major recommendation after a minor injury', on a waiting room wall. A piece of green tinsel sits over the poster frame. The poster details the accident which hurt Albert Darnell.
ALT Three posters in frames on a station ticket office wall. One is a general introduction; the others detail the life stories of Frank Purdy and Joseph Simmons, including posed staff safety photographs, text and QR codes in a red border, with logos of the University of Portsmouth Centre of Excellence for Heritage Innovation, Hills to Harbour CRP and Railway 200.
