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Another digitised copy of Jim Lockyer’s photo album showing his eclipse camp on the Olliver Ducket Mound, Richmond, Yorks.
Sadly eclipse day was cloudy, but Gigglewick got it!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbRNkIVl9QY&t=326s
David
Cloud in Yorkshire? Whatever next!
Seriously though, another fascinating album. I presume “Collinson” was EH Collinson, who joined the BAA in 1920 and had gone to school in Yorkshire.Sadly eclipse day was cloudy, but Gigglewick got it!
As a girl of 7, my mother lived in rural Lancashire a few miles along the track from Giggleswick and recalled the 1927 eclipse. She remembered the chickens rushing back into the hen house thinking night had fallen !
These are nice albums to see. The latest posting does indeed show E.H.Collinson, as I know for certain that he was there. Unfortunately his notebook for that time has not survived, though there are both earlier and later ones in existence. Many years ago he gave me a framed print of the eclipse that he had been given from the team at Giggleswick, in fact another copy of the large print towards the end of the album. (He was also sent a copy of a photo of that well-known exploding bolide, which sometimes appears in books of a century ago, from the very same W.J.S.Lockyer.) In the same photo as EHC there is also Larkin, a BAA member too I think, and H.H.Waters, who had written a little book about astronomical photography. It is good to see him identified for certain here, for it confirms his identity on another print. And flying overhead in his own plane is Gerry Merton, who later would be President and Comet Section Director. Merton was very regular at attending the RAS monthly dinners, and over decades came close to beating the 19th century attendance record.
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