Description
Two high-resolution downloadable scans of photographs of the aftermath of the Boardhill Moor steam wagon accident.
On the evening of 4 July 1916, a seven ton steam wagon hauling over four tons of machinery ran out of control whilst travelling from Manchester to Sheffield. It crashed near to the Dog & Partridge Inn on what is now the A628 to Penistone, killing the driver Ernest Jarvis (aged 20), steersman Fred Hughes (38), and haulage contractor Robert Hookham (51) who was the owner of the wagon. Although several theories were suggested at the inquest, the jury felt that none could fully account for the cause of the accident and a verdict of “death by misadventure” was returned. For further information, see the Huddersfield Exposed article on the crash.
At least four photographs of the crash site are known to exist, with the two shown here rather morbidly published as souvenir photo postcards. The postcards are rare and are usually priced around £30 each on eBay.
The photographs were scanned at 2,400 dots per inch (DPI), giving a final image with dimensions of 12,901 by 8,341 pixels and 12,971 by 8,331 pixels. Several minor blemishes were sympathetically restored using Adobe Photoshop.
Once purchased, you will have access to the following files to download:
- 2 x JPEG images (68MB & 62MB) 16 bit colour (full size)
- 2 x JPEG images (16MB & 14MB) 16 bit colour (resized to 50%)
- 2 x JPEG images (4MB each) 16 bit colour (resized to 25%)
All JPEG images were saved with 3% compression to ensure minimal loss of quality. The files are stored in a ZIP archive to ensure that they download without error.
Licensing
The downloadable files are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) licence. You may make use of the downloaded files for any non-commercial purpose permitted by the licence, e.g.:
- You may print off an unlimited number of copies of the downloaded items, but you may not sell these or in any other way profit from them.
- You can upload any of the files to your own non-commercial web site and make them freely available but you must provide suitable attribution (e.g. a web link back to the Huddersfield Exposed web site home page).
Allowable non-commercial purposes include private use, display at a free exhibition, a personal web site that does not generate income, and educational use. Prohibited commercial uses include uploading to a commercial web site and inclusion in non-free publications (such as a published book).
By ordering this item, you are agreeing to the above licensing conditions. If you have any questions relating to allowable use, please email shop@huddersfield.exposed before placing an order.
Samples
The following samples show the quality and level of detail of the full-sized images.
