Category Archives: England

Tourists

Posted on 14th Sep 2020 by petegrafton

TOURISTS Photos by Pete Grafton on You Tube Tourist in Bologna and Lucca, Italy, in Edinburgh, in Paris, in Vevey, Bern and Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland and tourists in Bath, England. Click for video.

Posted in England, Paris, People, Scotland, Switzerland | Tagged Bath England photos, Bern phoitos, Bologna photos, Edinburgh photos, Lauterbrunnen photos, Lucca photos, Paris photos, Vevey photos | Leave a comment

Doggies – Love & Friendship, 1910 – 1960 0n You Tube

Posted on 23rd Jun 2020 by petegrafton

Doggies – Love & Friendship, 1910 – 1960. Photos of Doggies 1910 to 1960 from England, Germany, Scotland and USA on You Tube. Subscribe to Pete Grafton on You Tube. Link to video:

Posted in England, Germany, Scotland, USA, Vintage Photos | Tagged Dog photos 1910 - 1960, Dog photos England, Dog photos Germany, Dog photos Scotland, Dog photos USA, Doggie photos, old photo of British Bulldog, Old photo of long-haired Dachshund | Leave a comment

Windows of Desire Windows of Desire, a photo presentation by Pete Grafton is on You Tube. Leave any comments or get in touch via petegraftonphotos.com Subscribe to Pete Grafton on You Tube. Link to the video:

Posted in England, France, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland | Tagged Fashion shop windows, Fashion Shop windows Edinburgh, Fashion shop windows Exeter, Fashion shop windows France, Fashion shop windows Germany, Fashion shop windows Gothenburg, Fashion shop windows Hamburg, Fashion shop windows Paris, Fashion shop windows Scotland, fashion shop windows Sweden | Leave a comment

Torcross, South Devon

Posted on 15th Feb 2020 by petegrafton

Torcross, South Devon. 2015. Photos Pete Grafton. South of Torcross: defensive World War Two buildings and interesting strata. __________________________________________ Footnote (1) Next to the main A379 road at Torcross is a Sherman Tank, a memorial to the incident. The memorial is … Continue reading →

Posted in England | Tagged Exercise Tiger Slapton Devon, Pill Box Torcross, Slapton Sands, Torcross, US Signal Corps | 1 Comment

1930s School Girls

Posted on 13th Jun 2019 by petegrafton

1930s School Girls photos from the Pete Grafton Collection This is a story of three comfortably off British schoolgirls in the 1930s – an incomplete story, a story of guesses and detection, as all photos are. “The camera doesn’t lie” … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium, England, Switzerland, Vintage Photos | Tagged 1930s schoolgirls, ATS manned searchlight, Austin A30 - A35 Owner's Club, Blackie's Girls' Annual 1930s, British nurses on front line Army of the Rhine, Burcht Belgium 1930s, D.Collett Wadge 1946, German autobahn 1930s, German North Sea Coast 1930s, Kynance Cove Cornwall, Marriage Bar, Mixed cricket match Roedean 1930s, QAIMNS officers, Radio Wrens 2WW, Roedean School 1930s, Sunbeam 20.9 Fixed Head Coupe, Sussex Downs 1930s, The Listener magazine, The People's War Angus Calder, WAAF nursing orderlies, Women in Uniform, Wren steward, Wren welder | 4 Comments

Christmas Time in Paris, Hamburg, Scotland & England

Posted on 1st Dec 2018 by petegrafton

Christmas Time in Paris, Hamburg, Scotland & England. ________________________

Posted in England, France, Germany, Hamburg, Paris, Scotland | Tagged Altona Bus Station Hamburg, Au Bon Marche store Paris, BHV store Paris, Biggar Scotland, Dartmouth Devon, Dawlish Devon, Exchange Place Glasgow, Grosse Bergstrasse Hamburg-Altona, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, La Defense Paris, Leicester Square London, Mercado Ottenser Hauptstrasse Hamburg-Altona, Monckebergstrasse Hamburg, Ottenser Haupstr. Hamburg-Altona, Paignton Devon, Peebles Scotland, Rathausmarkt Hamburg, Royal Castle Hotel Dartmouth Devon, Rue de Sevres Paris, St Pauli Hamburg, Teignmouth Devon, Yeovil Junction station Yeovil Somerset | Leave a comment

Summer by the Sea, 1903 (Sheringham),

Posted on 7th Jul 2018 by petegrafton

Summer by the Sea, 1903 (Sheringham). Photos from the Pete Grafton Collection. _____________________________ The railway came to Sheringham on the Norfolk coast in 1887. This was quite late for coastal villages and small towns that were to become seaside holiday … Continue reading →

Posted in England | Tagged boys in dresses, Edwardian Yarmouth photo, Family in Sheringham 1903, John Hassal, Kodak photo album 1903, London Liverpool Street station pre-1914, Paul Martin photographer, Sheringam, Sheringham 1903, Sheringham fisher men 1903, Sheringham garden 1903, Sheringham lifeboat 1903, Sheringham storm 1903, The Grand Hotel Sheringham, The Promenade Sheringham 1903 | Leave a comment

Trees/Tree

Posted on 26th May 2018 by petegrafton

Trees/Tree photos by Pete Grafton ________________________ ________________________________________

Posted in England, France, Germany, Paris, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland | Tagged Albi France, Bath England, Beattock Summit, Bellagio Italy, Belsay Gardens, Biggar Scotland, Carnwath Scotland, Climpy Forth Scotland, Clyde valley, Clyde valley blossom, Clyde valley orchard, Crawfordjohn Scotland, Crwaford Common Scotland, Currie Edinburgh, Dawlish Devon, Formby, Gothenburg, Hamburg Altona, Inverewe, Lausanne Switzerland, Lochranza Isle of Arran Scotland, Midi region France, Morpeth, Mouse Water Lanark, New Lanark, North Medwin Scotland, Park central Paris, Pisa, Quai de Bourbon Paris, Rockcliffe Scotland, Sannox Isle of Arran, Selkirk, Vallorbe Switzerland | Leave a comment

Dawlish: Is a Bird, Is it a Plane?

Posted on 30th Apr 2018 by petegrafton

Dawlish: Is it a Bird, Is it a Plane? A Happening. 2015. Photos by Pete Grafton ________________________________ This is how it begins…. Is it a Bird, Is it a Plane? – Planes. _____________________________________ Coming next, late May, 2018 … Continue reading →

Posted in England | Tagged Dawlish, Dawlish planes, Dawlish sea front, Dawlish summer 2015 | Leave a comment

Photo Exhibitions – 1/60th sec on a wall.

Posted on 15th Nov 2017 by petegrafton

Photo Exhibitions – 1/60th of a second on a wall or Looking at Ourselves ___________________ Photo Exhibitions of the following photographers Brassaï (Gyula Halász) 1899 – 1984. Hungarian. Paris based. _____________________ Robert Doisneau 1912 – 1994. French. Paris based. _______________ … Continue reading →

Posted in England, France, Germany, People, Scotland, Vintage Photos | Tagged Albert Watson exhibition, Brassai exhibition, Hayward Gallery, HCB Foundation, Horst P Horst exhibition, Izis exhibition, Kids at Place Hebert, Lee Miller exhibition, Martin Munkacsi exhibition, National Portrait Gallery London, Odeon Renfield Street Glasgow, Olympus RC camera, Robert Doisneau exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Willy Ronis exhibition | Leave a comment