Siesta

A quiet moment during afternoon tea in a lovely old cottage in the Blists Hill Victorian Museum in Shropshire, England, and given an old masters treatment.

 

The Bank Manager

Queen Victoria, Empress of India, looks down on the manager of the bank in the Victorian town at Blists Hill open air museum.

 

Worlds Apart

Two shop interiors and double portraits, one taken in Kochi, India and the other in a museum of a Victorian town in Shropshire, England.

One is relaxed, smiling and cluttered. The other is formal and ordered.

 

Cottage Bedroom

A homely scene of a Victorian bedroom that has a true lived in feel about it despite being found in a small cottage in the grounds of the Blists Hill open air museum in Shropshire, England.

 

Barmaid

Not only can museums be highly photogenic places, but here the staff were at ease with having their pictures taken which allowed me to add to my collection of environmental portraits without the sometimes tricky need to negotiate. In most other situations you would have to explain why you wanted to take a picture.

Another of my Ironbidge Gorge museum pictures taken at the Victorian town. This barmaid wasn’t just for decoration though, as the pub was a working establishment serving a wide range of real ale.

 

The Doctor’s Wife

This is another charming period scene taken inside the house of a doctor that is a recreation of a nineteenth century property at the Victorian town of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum next to the river Severn in Shropshire, England.

I love the way that local people who work here manage to get into the character of the times through their dress and manner.

 

Blakemore’s Shop

This is Blakemore’s grocery store and is one of many Victorian period shops at the Blists Hill Museum at Ironbridge in Shropshire. This is one of a series of images taken on our visit here with the family, so there are more to come.