Category Archives: England

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 →

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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