Newcastle 360 degree panorama, circa 1910-1920
Our friend Bruce had been to a garage sale one Saturday morning where he found, sitting on a nogging in the frame of a neglected shed, a little cardboard box of glass plate negatives. They didn't cost him much and that same night he passed them into our hands as a gift, asking only that we give him copies of whatever images we scanned from them. When I first scanned them I could see that at least a few were from the Newcastle area, but the others seemed mysterious to me. One was clearly taken on…