Thanks in part to the recent donation of a set of the three books published on LB&SCR Locomotives by the RCTS over thirty years ago and written by the late D L Bradley, the pictures recently presented to the Trust by Mr Bernard Harris are slowly revealing their secrets

It appears that many of the scenes were taken by the late Walter Bennett of Hove who apparently reproduced them as postcards.  Preliminary indications are that some, if not all of the originals of his work passed into the late John L Smith/Lens of Sutton Collection though better copies of some of the pictures have been credited to other society and private collections.  The pictures were purchased at auction in 1969 and may have been valued by the esteemed author C Hamilton Ellis

Obviously if anyone having rights to the originals protests about these pictures being on TTT website, they will be removed but in the first instance they are presented here for educational purposes only and to request assistance for identification principally of location.  Even if previously published, corroboration of detail would be appreciated

The date of most appears to roughly encompass the Edwardian years

HN-21/08/2007