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No. 2 Dam
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
Do you know this spot? 1978. 01. 454 This week’s idyllic lake scene comes from the Pick Collection, a collection of personal papers and images from Mr R. D.
Masonic Lodge
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
This small building of great mystery still stands in Grey Street, opposite Steele Park, as it has done since 1877, one hundred and forty-six years since the foundation stone was…
A man in tennis uniform
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
1981. 01. 96 Following on from Perry’s image last week to continue the tennis theme, this week we have a photograph found in the Norris Collection.
Tennis party
Friday 1 March | Camera Obscura,
The McCaw family HCL_02713 Anyone for tennis? A common call in the books of P. G. Wodehouse …, or was it?
Carols by Candlelight
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Programme for Carols by Candlelight Hamilton Christmas Festival held at Hamilton High School ib 16 December 1951. Proceeds went to the Hamilton Branch of Y. W. C. A.
Christmas window display at H. & J. Court Ltd 1965
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Christmas decorations used to go up all around towns and cities in December. Nowadays they are up alot earlier.
Hamilton Technical School workshop classroom
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Boys learning engineering trades working at benches, lathes, on a steam pump, and on a motorcycle.
Burley's Drapery Store
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Flier for Burley's Drapery Store advertising clothing, manchester, fabric and other items by mail order HCLE_00059 This flier promotes goods available at Burley’s Drapery Store in 1929, not long before the…
Two boys with meccano crane
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Boys pose appearing to maintain the crane. The boy at right is Ivan Alexis Tarulevicz HCL_2005. 64.
Church of England, Hamilton
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
HCL_00941 St Peter’s Church, to the left of the image, was replaced by the present cathedral in 1916.
Hamilton Harmonic Society
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
HCL_00267 July 1963 saw the tenth anniversary of the Hamilton Harmonic Society.
Frankton Primary School
Wednesday 28 February | Camera Obscura,
Pupils of Frankton School in class with their teacher standing at back of the room HCL_00515 A look at Frankton Primary School over 100 years ago.