Category Archives: England

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

A 1950s Scottish Photo Album + Soho London 1966 & 2007

Posted on 24th Feb 2017 by petegrafton

A 1950s Scottish Photo Album + Soho London 1966 & 2007. (Two Worlds) ____________________________________ A 1950s Scottish Photo Album Photo captions: Pete Grafton. A selection of photos from a Scottish photo album, bought in Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, 2007. The black and white and … Continue reading →

Posted in England, France, Germany, People, Scotland, Scottish Rural, Vintage Photos | Tagged 11 Air Formation Signal Regiment, 127 film, 1950s Scottish photos, BAOR, Caffe Nero Old Compton Street, Compton News, Dirty White Boy Old Compton Street, Dundee tenement, Ford Anglia 1948, Ford Consul 1951, Ford Prefect 1953, Frank Norman, Harold Macmillan Never Had it So Good, Jeffrey Bernard, Lina Stores Brewer Street, Moulin Rouge 1957, Parmigiani Figlio, Police Internationale 1957, Purma Special camera, Queens Theatre Soho, Soho 1966 photos, Soho 2007 photos, Soho Books Old Compton Street, Soho London 1966, Soho Night and Day, Tony Abbro | 1 Comment

Coffee/Cafe

Posted on 27th Jan 2017 by petegrafton

Coffee/Cafe photos Pete Grafton _________________________________________________

Posted in England, Germany, Holland, People, Scotland, Switzerland | Tagged Amsterdam Schipol, Border Books, Buchanon Street Glasgow, Charing Cross Embankment cafe, Haarlem, Haarlem Grote Markt, Lavassa at Bern railway station, London Waterloo station, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, National Portrait Gallery cafe London, South Bank cafe | Leave a comment

Girls and Young Women 1914 – 2006 + Scottish Rural: Carnwath Agricultural Show

Posted on 18th Nov 2016 by petegrafton

Girls and Young Women 1914 – 2006 & Scottish Rural: Agricultural Show, Carnwath ______________________ Girls and Young women 1914 – 2006 All photographs are from the pete grafton collection, except as detailed. ____________________________ The two … Continue reading →

Posted in England, Germany, Scotland, Scottish Rural, Vintage Photos | Tagged Calla Carnwath, Carnwath Agricultural Show, English Public Schoolgirls 1930s, Falconhall Schoolgirls Edinburgh 1916, FCUK Top High Street Edinburgh, Flensburg, Garry's Disco Van Carnwath, Ginestri's Ice Cream, Girl Scotland 1940, Girl with straw hat England 1914, Prize Rabbit, Scottish Country Dancing competition, Sheep shearing competition, Shepherds Crooks, Sisters 1920s Flensburg Germany, Swimwear 1930s, Texel sheep judging | Leave a comment