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Vintage industrial photographic prints From Quirky Prints

Starting with the industrial revolution, Britain has a long heritage of industry and over the years, vintage industrial photographic prints have preserved for us, many compelling images of industrial Britain.

Huge steps forward were continually being made, with what could be made and constructed and the camera was usually there to record the bridge-building, manufacturing and construction milestones.

When the team at Quirky Prints set about researching and finding vintage photographs for their website, their hunt for old images took them to hundreds of antique shops, collectors’ fairs, vintage photograph dealers and specialists around the country.

The resulting collection is literally thousands of hand-picked vintage photographs, on all manner of topics, including landscapes, people, shops, far-flung civilizations and transport from years ago. And among the many old black and white photographs that were collected, were some arresting and intriguing vintage industrial photographic prints from years gone by.

Within the INDUSTRIAL category on the website, Quirky Prints offers a selection of these unique vintage photographs. There are enormous machine parts being hauled off the back of lorries, colossal bridges being built stage by stage and factory workers in suits and cloth caps, streaming out of the factory gates. Factory chimneys billowing great amounts of acrid smoke.

All are captured in evocative sepia or black and white photographic detail. These old, forgotten, but delightful vintage photographs, make stunning framed pictures. They become unique fine art, which can be hung in our homes, or bought as original and unusual gift for friends.

No matter that we know nothing of the people or places in these old photographs. They are moments frozen in time. Unique pictures with their own unique story to tell. They have as much meaning and resonance with us today, as they had for those involved in creating the vintage photograph in the early 1900s.

The original vintage industrial photographic prints are all reproduced using the Giclee method on finest grade, heavyweight fine art paper, to preserve all the fine detail and quality of the image. They are then enlarged and presented in contemporary metal frames, which have been carefully chosen both to enhance the images and to complement any style of home decor.

For anyone who is completely uninspired and bored with the same prints offered for sale in the high street – those thousands of similar pictures that appear in thousands of homes across the UK - Quirky Prints offers something new, some different. Something Quirky in fact!

There are thirty-four other categories to choose from on the Quirky Prints website - from Agriculture to World War II – with thousands of images taken from original vintage photographs. Each of the old black and white photographs has been carefully restored to remove any damage, but preserve the originality of the image. Others have been painstakingly hand coloured or had their original colours restored.

The result is a remarkable visual time capsule of years gone by and of establishing the industrial revolution. Within the collection of vintage industrial photographic prints on the Quirky Prints website, we can imagine for ourselves, the ingenuity and scale, of the achievements made in industrial Britain all those years ago.