Oldham

My purchase of a collection of photographic negatives unearthed a melancholy tale of alleged fraud, a premature death and legal argument over a sizeable bequest. Around 2020, in an antique shop near Tamworth, NSW, I bought a collection of photographic negatives. It was an interesting and quite large collection, with some glass plates and some film negatives, as well as some magic lantern slides and prints. The antique dealer told me the collection had belonged to a man named Bevis Platt, who had been a British officer serving in World War 1 and then later a…