1950

ST0936 : Gate at Forge Cottage, Stogumber, 1950

taken 74 years ago, near to Stogumber, Somerset, England

Gate at Forge Cottage, Stogumber, 1950
Gate at Forge Cottage, Stogumber, 1950
The area beyond the gate now forms the garden of Forge Cottage. The 1:25k mapping still shows the public right of way running along this track, but the Current right of way mapping shows that it has been diverted to pass the cottage to the east on Wood Lane before rejoining the track visible above the gate approximately 100 metres further on.
Photos by David Murray-Rust

My father David was an enthusiastic and competent amateur photographer and owned a prewar Leica camera. These photos were taken by him in the course of family holidays principally in Cornwall, Somerset and Pembrokeshire, in the 1940s and 1950s when I was a small boy.

My parents kept holiday diaries into which the prints were pasted, so it has been possible to locate and date images with reasonable accuracy. A large proportion of the pictures in the diaries are of family members and not suitable for Geograph, although people do appear in some of the pictures where the scenic value makes them worthwhile for the historical value.

The photos are scanned from small commercial prints (about 3 x 2 inches which was the normal size in those days) rather than from original negatives (long since jettisoned!). Even so, I have been surprised how much detail is captured by using a large dpi scan setting; they are still equivalent to a 10-12 megapixel digital image, although reduced size images have been submitted for this series.


Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]   © Copyright David M Murray-Rust and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
Geographical Context: Lowlands Paths Roads, Road transport other tags: Farm Track Public Footpath Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Forge Cottage [4] · Wood Lane [3] · Form [2] · Gate [2] ·
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ST0936, 14 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
David M Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Contributed by
Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Date Taken
20 April 1950   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 19 January, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! ST 0999 3646 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:7.2198N 3:17.2465W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! ST 0999 3648
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SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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Image Type (about): geograph 
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