More from the Archive - a Mixed Bag

Here's a link to a few more pictures from the Leicester and Leicestershire Photographic Society archive, digitised from old glass plate negatives. These are a mixed bag with no common theme, and with no information other than that contained in the image itself:

 

LINK --- --- LLPS Archive

 

The gates with some boys outside are believed to be at the entrance to the now demolished Hillcrest, built as the Leicester workhouse, later used as a hospital. I don't know where the large weir is. The picture of the two ladies sitting on a fallen tree may have been taken at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire.

 

I would not have wanted to cross the woman in glasses and check skirt in the first picture.

I would not have wanted to cross the woman in glasses and check skirt in the first picture.

Why is that?

Why is that?

 

She strikes me as being a pretty feisty sort. She looks strangely like the lady in the white cloche hat in the second weir picture. But that was surely taken much earlier.

Just think about it.

I've discovered that the Seacroft Hotel still exists although it's now called The Royal Hotel, it's at Skegness, Lincolnshire, a popular seaside resort..

 

I would still love to know the location of the huge weir seen in two of the pictures.

it's at Skegness, Lincolnshire, a popular seaside resort.

Popular?

I was forced to go there out of season a couple of years ago. It furnished me with some of the bleakest pictures I've ever taken. Quite good in an "it's grim up't' north" kind of way.

 

High point of the day was getting a decent breakfast at 7 a.m. for only £2.50. Boy, that greasy-spoon cafe was nice and warm after an hour of taking in the bright lights of Skegness.

Another interesting set, thanks! Mysteries and questions.

Popular?

 

I used the word in its widest sense. And bear in mind that many photo.net members are not from our neck of the woods, and it would be a shame to give them a negative perception of the resort.

 

Here are some of my own pictures of "Skeggy"

 

LINK --- --- The Ensign Autorange 16-20 - The Camera for the Discerning Masochist

Never having been to Skegness, which is my loss, the pictures make it look very attractive in the classic English P.G. Wodehouse way, but I am sure times change. I remember my mother laughed heartily that Cromer in Norfolk was (is?) described as "gem of the Norfolk coast", and that was a long time ago. It has probaby come "up" since then, whereas as Skeggy has gone "down".

Because it’s Harry Butt, a local prizefighter and bully, in drag.

 

Nah she's "Pug" Smasher, nothing like good ol' 'Arry