THE CREW

Another Grand Yorkshire Day . . . and I again followed The Lifeboat Project to the Staithes and Runswick Lifeboat Station. I make it this is RNLI Station number 81 for photographer Jack Lowe . . . only another 157 to go! I featured his work last Sunday and I have fallen in love with this crucial social project ever since. His camera is a 110-year-old 10x12-inch Thornton-Pickard, made of brass-bound mahogany.

Their boat is a B Class Atlantic 85 Lifeboat, formally named Sheila & Dennis Tongue III earlier this year, from the family who left a legacy that is funding four new £235,000 lifeboats for the RNLI charity.
My image today shows The Crew . . . and one extra Darkroom . . . shows – from top left across – Jack showing the Crew a developing plate with their image, Jack taking the photograph and two glass negative plates in the final stages of washing and showing the view from the Lifeboat Station