Midcalder
Camera Club
5th
March 2010:
The
Mid Calder Camera Club has been active around the region and
has been actively taking images of the remaining shale era
landmarks. Some of the images are reproduced here....
27th
September 2009:
The Midcalder
Camera Club has been established for twenty five years
and has a proud track record of contributing to various local
and county-wide projects for many years.
For their Shale Villages Project, members
of the club came to the Shale Oil Museum at the almond Valley
Heritage Centre and, over a couple of visits, became familiar
with the museum archival collection of historical photographs.
From the museum collection and other images sourced from the
History HQ in Blackburn, the Camera Club is in the process
of analysing key images of the county with the aim of allocating
task-projects to club members based on the understanding of
the research.
As reproductions of the images are allocated,
club members will return to the point of the original photograph
and take a series of new complementary images. In many ways
this is very significant historical research. Not only will
there be the opportunity to compare and contrast the photographs,
but thanks to the efforts of the Mid Calder Camera Club, there
will be a systematic collection of images and data of what
remains of the shale oil industry, as well as a greater understanding
of just how much has changed in the last 50+ years. |
