An Evening with Father’s Slides

The speaker tonight is David Cross lives locally in Brentwood. He is the son of Derek Cross a photographer who took many photographs and wrote a number of books in the Sixties and Seventies. David now holds his collection. This evening he will show slides of diesels at work on the four BR Regions in England over the 25 years between 1959 and 1984. David says that his Father Derek was unusual in so far as towards the end of steam and after 1968 he actually took pictures of diesels at work. A number of his peers did not bother and David hopes these slides this evening will go some way to filling the gap on early diesels.