A town museum has been presented with a set of historic pictures thanks to the generosity of photographer Phil Chisholm.

When the news, wedding and arts photographer, who runs Studio Tristan, heard the lost ‘Graham collection’ was on the market from a private owner, he was determined the photographs should stay in Redcar.

Graham was a prolific Redcar Photographer in the very early part of the last Century.

The collection of 54 boxes of 5x7in glass plates is now at the Kirkleatham Hall museum, where it is being sorted and catalogued.

Phil said: “I was delighted to be able to track down and buy for Redcar the Graham collection of 5X7 inch glass pates.

“These photographs were taken by Graham of Redcar in the early 1900s.

“My next step is to raise funds to restore the collection and have an exhibition made around Graham’s photography.

“Being able to help keep this collection in Redcar gives me a fantastic feeling and is well worth the money.

“The Graham collection, along with the Harry Picknet collection of Redcar Postcards in the Zetland Lifeboat museum, really pull together the jigsaw of how life was in early Red Scar.”

Redcar derived its name from being built on the Redwood petrified forest the scars that run from the sea under the town theatre and across into Station Road.

To see some of the Graham pictures,
click here.

Phil has been a professional photographer since 1969 and has gained the ‘Portrait of the Year, and ‘Wedding Photographer of the Year’ (Northern Region) awards of the British Institute of Professional Photographers.