Vintage Portrait

Another photo from a visit to the Blists Hill open air museum of the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire, England.

This museum is highly recommended and is great for photography.

 

In The Parlour

An interior with an old time feel, taken at the Victorian Town, at the Blists Hill site of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Shropshire, England.

 

The Doctor Calls

A portrait taken at Blists Hill Museum’s Victorian Town in Shropshire, England.

 

Conversation

The late afternoon light filters into the cottage and the teapot stands forgotten as the conversation dwells on old friends and happy memories.

 

 

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.