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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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Old Milverton Lineside Views
The length of line from Leek Wooton, a village outside
Kenilworth, to Old Milverton which lay just before Warwick, appeared to fire
the imagination of some local photographers including 'Stretton-Ward'. Although
the following photographs are attributed to Gordon Coltas, they are in fact
undoubtedly the work of Stretton-Ward, a Leamington photographer, whose
interest in railways started before the First World War. The story of the sale
of his collection is a little bizarre because apparently Stretton-Ward had been
living with his wife and girlfriend at the same address and it was his
girlfriend who sold his collection when he died, both prints and negatives, to
a number of collectors. Roger Carpenter, who bought some of the collection,
recounts that both photographs and negatives of the same subject were sold to
different people which is why the same photograph may be attributed to two or
more people.
Patrick Kingston also bought some of the photographs which
have subsequently been credited to him (Patrick said those of Tile Hill station
fall within this category). Old Milverton was a favourite location of
Stretton-Ward, probably because it within a short distance of home and a
location where he could take photographs with long panoramic views. In a number
of instance we have included a close up of the original image because we
believed whilst the panoramic view was evocative there was a case to include a
close up image too. With a web site we do not have to consider costs or the
limitations of space so we can just indulge ourselves. We hope you agree.
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