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Phyllis Nicklin Photograph Collection

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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
https://62.105.110.193/search/results.bhtml?collection_id=10032

The link is to the collection which disappeared from the web. Phyllis Nicklin was a tutor at the university, she photographed Birmingham before she died at a young age. Her 450 slides disappeared from the web, Keith Berry had copied over 200 of them but now the link takes you to the whole collection. If you haven't seen them be prepared for a long session, they are wonderful
 
Thanks so much for that info Di. I was hoping he would be able to scan them.
I will look forward to viewing them later. The detail in the ones that he had already copied was just amazing. Thanks again.
 
Brum photos

Langstraat said:
Alf,
Try the back door:

https://www.pbase.com/beppuu/pnicklin
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Langs,

Thanks for that, they are really great to see and after making some photos this week of my (new since 40 years) home town, Ghent, you have inspired me to get out again and look for those sites in danger of disappearing. Even though here they are more careful with what they pull down.

Click on the image and then on slide show.
 
This link should get you into the E-Bank site, 446 photo's, make the most of them before they plug this hole


bren
 
Great photos Di Poppitt and it was great to see where my mom and my uncle worked, Parker Hale I had never seen the place before, thanks you.
 
So far so good, the links seem a bit tenuous, Bren.:)

Glad you found where your Mom and Uncle worked Marie. They are such great photo's, and there are reputedly hundreds more at the University. They only released part of the collection.:(
 
What super photo's Di Poppitt. Me and my husband were having a good look at them last night. Love all the old brick buildings. Even the semi demolition sites have that special something. Thanks! :)
 
A great quality collection let's hope the Uni allow access to the rest. Many wonderful buildings evoking many memories suffocated by concrete atrocities! They certainly had no style or vision in the 50s/60s/70s, those architects who don't even live here.
 
Phyllis Nicklin took the photos to encourage the students in a photo club which she set up in the University where she was a lecturer but not in photography, she deserves to be acclaimed as one of the best historians of Birmingham, she died at an early age RIP Phyllis. Len.
 
Phyllis Nicklin's photos are back!


I’ve just had a very interesting email via my website, A History of Birmingham Places & Placenames . . . from A to Y - https://billdargue.jimdo.com/ from Edward Craft, the Digital Library Systems Specialist at the University of Birmingham who is - developing a web site to make the 446 Phyllis Nicklin photos available to all. The photos are the *unretouched* scans of the original slides from the 2004 Chrysalis Project. The site is part of the ePapers project and a good starting point is https://epapers.bham.ac.uk/chrysalis.html . This is still in development and parts may change over the next couple of weeks. Any feedback on the site is welcomed !



Bill

 
Hi

Thanks for the new Link. its great to have the colection back on -line.
Other than the late Keith Berry's work I have been stuck since the old
link was removed.

Many thanks

Mike Jenks
 
Hi Bill: Thanks very much for letting us know about the Phyllis Nicklin slide collection becoming available
on line in it's entirety. That's great because everyone interested in Birmingham History should be able to view Phylliis' legacy. Thanks again.
 
Wonderful photos, and well worth another look...and another...and another..........
It particularly saddened me to see the buildings in Easy Row that were demolished (not to mention The Woodman)!!
 
Oh golly gosh, Phyllis took the best photo's I think I have ever had the pleasure of looking at. I will spend a few hours this week looking at them. I just took a peek at a Bennetts Hill/Waterloo Street slide, I stayed at Witherspoons in Bennetts Hill a couple of years ago, and felt I could walk into the photo it has real quality.
Thanks Bill for the link.
 
What a brilliant link and what fantastic photographs! Could anyone enlighten me as to Ms Nicklin's equipment and technique? I've picked up that she used slides. Does anyone know which film she used? I imagine the almost surrealistic effect she obtained is thanks to the use of a particular filter. Any idea which? db84124
 
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