Talk by Kevin Illingworth: Then and Now - photographs of vernacular buildings by Ralph Cross (1893-1978) and Kevin Illingworth

The presentation will be very visual, showing photographs of buildings taken by Ralph Cross before 1978, compared directly with photos taken by Kevin, of the same building, in modern times. The buildings are mainly in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Pennines.

Kevin was born Galgate, near Lancaster and has had a varied career stretching from operating excavators and bulldozers in motorway construction to working with pigs in Lincolnshire. In between he studied at art college and Bath Academy of Art. He has worked as a self-employed ‘Landscape Builder’, especially in gardens of historic farmhouses. His detailed knowledge and photographs of vernacular buildings of Yorkshire and Lancashire are widely respected.