David Pendleton Author

David Pendleton was a signalman for thirty-four years at locations as diverse as Hellifield and Seamer. He recently left the railway to open a gin distillery in the North Yorkshire seaside resort of Filey. In between signalling trains, he studied at Leeds Metropolitan University and De Montfort University, Leicester. At Leeds his Master’s dissertation focussed on holiday making patterns on the Yorkshire coast, with a particular interest in events at Skipsea. David became a Doctor of Philosophy at Leicester via a study of commercialised sporting leisure in sporting Bradford. Photographer, Gavin Morrison got his first camera way back in 1943 and within a few years his hobby became an obsession. He has now amassed some 200,000 images in one of the largest personal collections still in hands of the original photographer. Unlike many, he did not put his cameras away when the age of steam ended in 1968 and he continues to record the changing railway scene. A dedicated Yorkshireman, he lives near Mirfield and has always had a special regard for the Thames-Clyde Express.