By Paul Perton | Interview
Author Mike Peart is something of a luminary in railway preservation in the UK. Back at a time when British Railways was making the owners of England’s scrapyards wealthy, he (and four friends) founded the Great Western Society to preserve some of the railway history that was being swept away with such indecent haste. That […]
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By Paul Perton | Opinion , Travel Photography
Ian Hislop, long-time editor of Private Eye magazine and regular TV personality, was interviewed on the radio while I was in London last week. He was promoting a new TV series which sets out to examine our oft-stated preferences for the past and to dispel some of the myths our remembrances construct. Anyone old enough […]
Continue readingBy pascaljappy | Travel Photography
This is a guest post by Paul Perton, a talented English photographer living in South Africa and with a passion for steam trains. A beautiful online essay on this subject is available here : http://issuu.com/paulperton2/docs/saving_steam?e=2443592/4847084 Thanks a lot to Paul for the contribution. We hope others will follow and invite other readers to submit theirs […]
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