Photographic recollections from Peter Kerslake from his time spent working in East Anglia between August 1954 and December 1955.
In attempting to portray some of the better efforts from my enforced period spent in East Anglia from August 1954 to December 1955 I have set out the circumstances by which I was fortunate enough to capture on film just a few scenes from those days when steam reigned supreme on Eastern metals, as I think we tend to overlook that every picture in today’s journals has been secured by the efforts of the cameraman concerned, and with a story to be told, often dating many years previously.
My leaving school in Plymouth in 1954 heralded the start of a 37 year long career in the courts service, but immediately took me far from my familiar West Country lineside haunts, as I was told at short notice to report for duty at Cambridge County Court, where I served from August to December 1954, not something which I had expected or welcomed aged just 18 years of age. In those days, as a single male clerical officer I was expected to serve as and where my departmental superiors decreed, but Cambridge proved to be a delightful centre for any railway enthusiast, with a variety of locomotives working on the King’s Lynn, Liverpool Street and King�
