NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM.

The National Media Museum is in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The museum has seven floors of galleries with permanent exhibitions focusing on Photography, Television, Animation and Videogaming.

Photographer`s Studio around 1843.

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Soho Pilot Camera (top row middle)---All Distance Ensign 1927 (bottom row right)---Ensign Cupid Camera 1923 (bottom row middle)---No2 Portrait Brownie 1928 (bottom row left).

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A Russian made Photographic gun consisting of a Zenit Reflex camera body fitted with a fast focusing 300mm telephoto lens attached to a gun stock with a pistol grip.

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Canon F1 camera with a 500mm mirror lens attached.

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Ottewill Folding Wet plate Camera, 1853.

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Kodak 120 film dispensers.

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Vinten Cine Film Camera.

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Lee and Turner Projector, 1902.

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Old Televisions and Monitors.

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Sony Video Camera.

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The following photographs are of old Television Studio Cameras.

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WILD FLOWERS.

I enjoy going for a walk with my cameras along a country lane taking photographs of the wild flowers I see, also a walk along the canal`s towpath can turn up some interesting pictures. I am not clued up with the flowers names, so I hope I have identified these correctly and if I have not I do apologise.

Bilberry.

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Biting Stonecrop.

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Bristly Oxtongue.

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Dog - Rose.

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Fuchsias.

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Marjoram.

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Meadow Crane`s - Bill.

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Orpine.

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Poppies.

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Spear Thistle.

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CROYLANDS ABBEY.

Croyland Abbey ( also spelled Crowland ) is a Church of England Parish Church, formerly part of a Benedictine Abbey Church in Crowland, Lincolnshire, England. Croyland Abbey is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, Saint Bartholomew and Saint Guthlac. The town of Croyland was captured after a short siege by Parliamentarian Forces in 1643 and this appears to have been when serious damage was done to the structure. The Nave roof fell in 1720, the main south wall was taken down in 1744.The north aisle of the nave was refurbished and remains in use as the parish church. The church contains a skull which is identified as the skull of the 9th century Abbot Theodore who was killed at the altar by Vikings. The relic used to be on public view until it was stolen from it`s display case in 1982. The skull was returned anonymously in 1999.

Entrance to the church, and yes your eyes are not deceiving you, the outer arch has a lean to one side.

This shows the foundations which hold up the stone pillars.

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ROYAL ARMOURIES LEEDS ( part three ).

ARMOUR ( Tosei Gusoku )

Japanese 18th century. By the first decades of the 17th century the Tokugawa Shoguns had imposed peace on Japanese society. Never the less members of the military class were expected to maintain their arms and armour ready for war at all times. This figure represents a middle ranking Samurai around the end of the 18th century, his armour being based on the practical styles developed during the civil wars of the 16th century. The flag attached to the backplate displays the warrior`s personal device, his Kamon. The size of his horse reflects the improvements to the native bloodstock, the result of the importation of Arab Stallions by the Dutch. The saddle is of the late Edo period, the horse trappings modern replicas.

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MASS PRODUCTION.

The early years of the 19th century heralded a period of unprecedented industrial development. Technology leaped ahead in every manner of industrial process, and nowhere was it more warmly embraced than in weapons manufacture. Always a labour - intensive industry, the production of firearms by the early 1850`s had become largely mechanised. American manufacturers like Colt and Whitney showed that it was perfectly feasible to use unskilled labour to produce effective weapons by machine.

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HALF ARMOUR.

North Italian, about 1570 - 80. Composed of various pieces of the same period and fashion. It is a type known as a corslet, intended for infantry use. It is decorated with etched bands of classical ornament and was probably for wear by an officer of infantry.

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EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I ARMOUR FRONT VIEW.

EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN I ARMOUR SIDE VIEW.

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BATTLE SCENE.

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HENRY VIII`S FOOT COMBAT ARMOUR.

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ROYAL ARMOURIES LEEDS ( part two ).

Crossbow.

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Centrefire semi - automatic pistol.

Mauser C96 Broomhandle, German about 1899. Automatic pistols had become very fashionable and the Mauser was the most advanced and expensive. It had a magazine capacity of 10 rounds, and it`s 7.63mm bullet had a range of over 500 metres.

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Semi - automatic pistol.

Luger Artillery Model, German, Berlin, dated 1917. This model has the longest barrel length issued during the war. To improve accuracy at extreme ranges, the wooden shoulder stock could be attached to the pistol to turn it into a carbine. 

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The Machine Gunner.

A British soldier of the machine gun corps man`s his MK 1 Vickers Gun during the bitter fighting for Passchendaele in 1917. Conditions in the line were so bad that men had to be replaced every 24 hours. The wounded could not be rescued and many sank without trace into the mud. The battle was to become a byword for the horror and suffering of the Great War. Vickers MK1 machine gun , British about 1917. Designed by an American, Hiram Maxim, the .303 inch Vickers gun was the standard medium machine gun in service with the Commonwealth Forces throughout the war. It was water cooled and could fire at a rate of 550 rounds per minute, it was extremely reliable. Individual guns often firing 100,000 rounds with no more than regular maintenance. It remained in service until 1965.

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Animal Hunt Scene.

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Duck Hunting Scene.

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Boar Hunt Scene.

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TIGER HUNT.

These scenes shows a wounded Tiger turning and attacking his pursuers. The incident is described in Sport in many lands, a book written by Henry Astbury Leveson. The old Shekarry, one of the most famous big game hunters of Victorian Times. Leveson served in the Indian army from 1845 to 1854 and returned on Hunting Trips between 1856 and 1860. The events described here took place during his Army Service.

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To Be Continued.