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n the 1980s, when I was Deputy Editor of , one of my responsibilities (because there was no one else to do the job) was to ‘look after’ the Locomotive Publishing Company negative collection. This collection of, we estimated, over 100,000 photographs had to be moved several times from one storage space to another. Glass plates are heavy and sharp and it was not a pleasant task. The collection, however, was always throwing up something

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