Figure 1.-- John Tindale got involvd in photogrphy as a boy working for his father. For several decades he took photographs of the people of Whitby and environ going about their everyday lives. It is a marvelous record of Whitby and its people. The photograph looks like it was taken in the 1950s. Notice that two of the boys are Scouts. .

A British reader tells us, "On a visit to Whitby I came across this story of John Tindale. Charles Tindale was John's father. He ran a chemists (pharmacy) shop. One part of it was taking street photographs of people on holiday. Ehitby bis a North Sea port. The address of where they were staying was recorded. Later that day after the photographs were delivered to them. This was the job John did. He cycled from address to address delvering the photographs. This is how John got involved with photogrphy. John took up photography and proceeded to recorded Whitby life in photographs over the decades, especilly beginning in the 1950s." John lived all his life in Whitby, except for a brief stent in the RAF during World War II. His father apprenticed him to be a pharmacist, but he always intended to be a photographer. Asan adult, he built darkrooms in the attic bove his pharmecy and recording studios and worked on weddings, commercial contracts, and news photography for the Whitby Gazette. Through all of this first as a hobby he began recording every day life in Whitby and environs. He drove a distinctive green Land Rover with a photographer’s eye displyed on the door. John roamed around the the Whitby areae lookin for evocative images and people for 40 years. He captured wonderful local characters and stories, as wll as senic vistdas. He also began recording the voices of his subjects describing their lives. A good example of his work is a a group looking out to sea at Whitby harbor.

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