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April Fool

So on April 1st I decided that my old Voigtlander Bessa-L camera which I'd not used for years needed a run out so I went down to the Amberley Museum, camera fitted with Voigtlander 15mm Aspherical Super-Wide Heliar, which is the widest angle lens I have, and loaded with a roll of Ilford Pan F+.


Here are a few shots from the day.

Bus Stop



And here's a bus. 


But I didn't get the bus, I got the narrow-gauge train that runs round part of the disused lime quarry the museum is located in.


Getting off the train by a bunch of old electrical stuff, and the electrical equipment gallery in the background.



This claims to be a bomb shelter, though I suspect it wasn't very good!


Some unused bits of narrow gauge rail which might be used sometimes?


Looking down to the old lime kilns.



One of the stations for the narrow gauge railway behind the telecomms gallery.




A variety of old buses. Some frames were affected by a scratch and this was one of them. Not sure how the film got scratched for just four frames.


An early form of telephone box predating the more well known type. 
Wild perspective from the 15mm lens!


One thing to note about using such a wide angle lens as this is just how very very easy it is to get part of your hand in the shot. Whoops!

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