Event: Maurice Deane's Branch Line Photography - Mike Fenton
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Start Date: 02.06.2023. Start Time: 19:45
End Date: 02.06.2023. End Time: 22:00
Location: The Manor, Slough Railway Station, Brunel Way, Slough
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Maurice Deane's Branch Line Photography - Mike Fenton
Mike Fenton's third visit to the SWRS is a presentation on the photography of Maurice Deane. Mike got to know Maurice whilst engaged upon research for his recently published Malmesbury Railway Companion book (Lightmoor Press), which features a chapter on Mr Deane's life and work.
Maurice was a famed modeller and raconteur, a bank manager by profession, and was a photographer who really understood the operational detail involved in his subjects. He had a great reputation as 'the branch line man', who in the late 1940s set out to photograph all the dead-end termini on the old LSWR and GWR networks. His favourite branch terminus on the GWR was Malmesbury, through which Mike and Maurice had an obvious easy rapport!
(Photo: Collett 58XX class 0-4-2 5804 at Tetbury in 1962. (Maurice Deane))
Mike has written four major hardback railway books, with two more in preparation on the GWR in the Stroud Valley, and will have copies available on the evening. There will be a short musical interlude before the break - Mike is a well-known exponent of the chorded zither and will also have CDs available of his playing.
All are welcome.
See you there!
Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park.
Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
Maurice Deane's Branch Line Photography - Mike Fenton
Mike Fenton's third visit to the SWRS is a presentation on the photography of Maurice Deane. Mike got to know Maurice whilst engaged upon research for his recently published Malmesbury Railway Companion book (Lightmoor Press), which features a chapter on Mr Deane's life and work.
Maurice was a famed modeller and raconteur, a bank manager by profession, and was a photographer who really understood the operational detail involved in his subjects. He had a great reputation as 'the branch line man', who in the late 1940s set out to photograph all the dead-end termini on the old LSWR and GWR networks. His favourite branch terminus on the GWR was Malmesbury, through which Mike and Maurice had an obvious easy rapport!
(Photo: Collett 58XX class 0-4-2 5804 at Tetbury in 1962. (Maurice Deane))
Mike has written four major hardback railway books, with two more in preparation on the GWR in the Stroud Valley, and will have copies available on the evening. There will be a short musical interlude before the break - Mike is a well-known exponent of the chorded zither and will also have CDs available of his playing.
All are welcome.
See you there!
Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park.
Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
