I find that the period setting of Beamish Museum, in County Durham, adds enormously to the feel of this photo. Taken at 1/400 and f9 and an ISO of 400 the image responds well to processing through Photomatix.

The Tramstop

Beamish Museum's Sunderland No 16 tram alongside a Tramways Inspector.

 

No 16 was built as an open-top tramcar by Dick, Kerr & Co., Preston, in 1900, however to increase capacity it was later rebuilt as double dekker.

 

Sunderland's tram system closed in 1954 and No 16 became the changing rooms for local football clubs.

 

Eventually it found it's way to a farm and was used as storage until the tram found a new home at Beamish in 1989. But it was not until 2003 that it finally entered service at the museum.

My first post to Flickr for 2016.

This image taken underground with, unusually for me, my Canon set to Automatic. Is of an enactor at Beamish Museum in County Durham.
Simply adjusted for tone and shadows it was converted to black and white and then a 20% tint added.

                                                              The Pit Deputy

 The deputy could be compared to a supervisor, he was responsible for an area of the pit underground, known as a "District".
He would walk the roadways (tunnels) and crawl along the coal face where men were working. He would be supervising all aspects of health and safety and mostly stop and speak to the men on his District.

 There would be a deputy on that distrct/area every shift and they would "hand over" to each other.

Although an official, he would mostly be part of the team and would most likely be part of the community above ground.

He would have a senior man higher than himself, that person being an Overman who would be responsible for a number of districts.

One below the Deputy would be the shotfirers, which as it's name suggests were responsible for exploding the powder to break the coal or rock into smaller pieces.

Seen here in Beamish Museum's, Drift Mine (a mine that can be walked into, rather than a Deep Pit that required shafts and lifing gear).

Next up yesterday was The Farmers Wife. The Redhead and I chatted with this lovely lady an enactor at Beamish Museum, County Durham prior to the photo.
Simply converted to Artistic B&W and then brought back to 20% colour in Photomatix.