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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.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 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; 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.
Acknowledgments Grateful thanks to The Weekend Telegraph Magazine for
their kind permission to reproduce these pages from their 1965 issue
which announced the competition winners November 26th 1965 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 NATIONALPHOTOGRAPHIC
COMPETITION. HE SUBMITTED AN ESSAYOF PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING THE
DEMISE OF THE BIRMINGHAMAND BLACK COUNTRY CANALS. Norman Fletcher -
Moseley College of Art 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. 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 heyday were
navigated by hundreds of brightly painted narrow boats, 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 achievement had been forgotten, decay and neglect
had replaced the endeavor 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 healing goods by rail by night and day, now they have all gone
away. Once there were factory chimneys, 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 e member 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 mongrel dog waiting patiently 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. 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.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
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; 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. Acknowledgments Grateful thanks to The Weekend
Telegraph Magazine for their kind permission to reproduce these pages
from their 1965 issue which announced the competition winners November
26th 1965 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
NATIONALPHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION. HE SUBMITTED AN ESSAYOF PHOTOGRAPHS
ILLUSTRATING THE DEMISE OF THE BIRMINGHAMAND BLACK COUNTRY CANALS.
Norman Fletcher - Moseley College of Art 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. 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 heyday were navigated by hundreds of brightly painted narrow
boats, 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 achievement had been
forgotten, decay and neglect had replaced the endeavor 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 healing goods by rail by night and day, now
they have all gone away. Once there were factory chimneys, 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 ming 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
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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.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 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; 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 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 NATIONALPHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION. HE SUBMITTED AN ESSAYOF PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING THE DEMISE OF THE BIRMINGHAMAND BLACK COUNTRY CANALS. Norman Fletcher - Moseley College of Art 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. 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 emember 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 mongrel dog waiting patiently 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. 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.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 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; 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 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 NATIONALPHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION. HE SUBMITTED AN ESSAYOF PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING THE DEMISE OF THE BIRMINGHAMAND BLACK COUNTRY CANALS. Norman Fletcher - Moseley College of Art 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. 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.