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PETER DONNELLY
PHOTOGRAPHER & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
1932 - 2005
PHOTOGRAPHER & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
1932 - 2005
FORWARD BY PASSIONATE
BRUMMIE & HISTORY
PROFESSOR
DR CARL CHINN M.B.E.
PETER WAS BORN IN BIRMINGHAM 1932, EDUCATED AT CORPUS CHRISTI JUNIOR SCHOOL, STETCHFORD AND LATER AT THE HOLY ROSARY, SALTLEY.
WHILE AT THE HOLY ROSARY HE TOOK AND PASSED A DRAWING EXAMINATION FOR MOSELEY SCHOOL OF ART AT WHICH HE SPENT SEVERAL YEARS TUNING HIS ARTISTIC TALENT.
ON LEAVING THE ART SCHOOL HE JOINED BIRMINHAM PRINTERS, SAM CURRIER & SON IN BROOK STREET, ST PAULS SQUARE, AS AN APPRENTICE COMMERCIAL ARTIST.
AFTER COMPLETING HIS APPRENTICESHIP HE LEFT SAM CURRIER AND WORKED AT VARIOUS PRINTERS AND ADVERTISING AGENCIES GAINING VALUABLE EXPIERIENCE BEFORE STARTING HIS OWN BUSINESS DONNELLY BURNS DAVIS WITH HIS WORKING ASSOCIATE BOB BURNS (TYPOGRAPHER)
DONNELLY BURNS GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO WAS IN CHAPEL STREET LYE BEFORE MOVING TO LARGER PREMISES IN CRADLEY HEATH AND HARBORNE.
BEFORE STARTING THE BUSINESS PETER ENTERED AND WON THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION. HE SUBMITTED AN ESSAY OF PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING THE DEMISE OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND BLACK COUNTRY CANALS.
Norman Fletcher - Moseley College of Art
WHAT AN ARENA! WHAT POWERFUL EXITING SUBJECTS FOR THE CAMERA; NEGLECTED CANALS, WEED AND WEB WOVEN TOWPATHS, OLD WORN OUT NARROW BOATS – REDUNDANT AND HALF SUBMERGED IN SILTED MURKY BROWN WATERS;
HE WAS AT THIS TIME A MEMBER OF THE SMALL HEATH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY BASED AT HOBMOOR ROAD, SOUTH YARDLEY. THE IDEA OF PHOTOGRAPHING THE CANALS WAS DEVELOPED BY PETER AND HIS FRIEND, FELLOW PHOTOGRAPHER NORMAN FLETCHER. TO PETER AND NORMAN, MIDLANDS PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETIES SEEMINGLY HAD IGNORED THE ONCE GREAT INDUSTRIAL ARENA THAT SURROUNDED THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES.
STEAM TRAINS RATTLING, HISSING AND BUMPING THEIR WAGGONS INTO LINE AND THE RAILMEN WHO WORKED THE LINE AT THAT TIME. OLD FOUNDRIES, RUN DOWN FACTORIES AND SCRAPYARDS – THE INDUSTRIAL FLOTSUM OF A ONCE GREAT MANUFACTURING REGION.
Acknowledgements Grateful thanks to The Weekend Telegraph Magazine for their kind permision to reproduce these pages from their 1965 issue which announced the competition winners November 26th 1965
MANY SIX O’CLOCK EARLY MORNING STARTS WERE WALKED AND MANY MILES COVERED BY PETER AND HIS CAMERA.NOW OVER 40 YEARS LATER PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN DURING THOSE EARLY MORNING EXCURSIONS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AS POSTCARDS, PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS OR LIMITED EDITION GICLEE PRINT.
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Unlike English moggies Greek cats have sharp features and sleak looks making them very cool and very photogenic !
These photographs and some other shots of English cats are availabe as greeting cards.
A pack of twelve costs £5.99 inc postage with all proceeds going to Pete & Pams favorite charity
The greek Animal Welfare Fund.
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ABLE AS POSTCARDS, PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS OR LIMITED EDITION GICLEE PRINT. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS currently available "THE CUT" Journeys along Black Country Towpaths. 22 pages including pictures and verse The Cut (canals)- A network of watery highways that in their hayday were navigated by hundreds of brightly painted narrowboats, ferrying to and from mine, furnace and factory, their cargoes of ironstone, coal, slack and countless other industrial materials; materials that played a major role in bringing the regions, Birmingham & The Black Country, to their industrial greatness. The Photographs Peter Donnelly's evocative photographs taken during the 1960's, record the time and his verse the emotion looking back in retrospect. By the time the photographs were taken, the glorious achievment had been forgotten, decay and neglect had replaced the endeavour and taken their toll: towpaths weed woven, veiled in spiders' webs, crumbling wharfs and bridges, rotting hulks of once-proud boats half submerged, reeds and grasses growing in silt-clogged holds - the final dereliction of a once-proud a momentous engineering accomplishment. For the cut, its working time had passed and left only the memory. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS currently available "CHUFF-CHUFF" Journeys along Birmingham's Towpaths. 30 pages including pictures and verse Chuff-chuff (train)- Once steam trains huffed and puffed hualing goods by rail by night and day, now they have all gone away. Once there were factory chimineys, a slag heap piled high like a mountain soared skyward toward a setting sun; now they are gone. Time has rung the changes. The everyday sights and sounds of the 1960s are, to many, a fast-fading memory. The young of that time remember the Beatles, pop stars extraordinary. The fashion conscious will remember David Bailey, the fashion photographer; young and middle-aged will remember Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup winning team.The Photographs Peter Donnelly's photographs of that period, now over 40 years ago, remind us of a few of the places, the people, the cut, the steam trains and the mong outside the pub for his master to finish his pint. The subjects photographed were not subjects fashioned for newspaper headlines, yet were very much a part of our everyday scene; hardly noticed then - forgotten until now. Lamps, buffers, gas-mantled station signs, greased wheels and shunting wagons - all captured by the camera for time everlasting. “The Cut - Journeys along Black Country Towpaths,” and “Chuff Chuffs – Photographs from a time remembered,” and prints taken from the books. www.blackcountrynostalgia.com Heartfelt mood entrenched imagery and poignant moments captured on film represent the deterioration of the flag-posts of an era much forgotten – the canals and railways so integral to powering Birmingham’s industrial revolution and the development of the UK. Photographed by Peter Donnelley during the 60s - decaying vistas, time-worn monuments, or simply sublime snapshots in time - this selection of imagery and verse is history with a heart. Not only are these books captivating windows on a time gone by, they represent the love and respect between father and son, created by Simon Donnelley to honour his father’s plans made before he passed away in 2005. Press release to utilise some of Peter’s verses found within the books and to include a brief biography of his life and work as successful player in Birmingham’s advertising industry and photographer extraordinaire.