Much of the street lighting was still fuelled by gas. Photographer Andrew's first photographs were taken as a child almost eighty years ago in 1919. He was a member of the Dennistoun Camera Club for many years and exhibited frequently in local and national exhibitions. Since retiring from his work as an insurance agent within the Co-operative movement in 1974, he intensified his work in photography and began to catalogue and annotate his large collection of negatives, prints and slides, whilst continually pursuing new projects. His work has been published in magazines, newspapers, calendars and books, and has been shown on television.
Mount Etna is visible on the port side.
The metal deck burns the skin. Etna on the skyline all day. After travelling 1200 miles by sea from Algeria and disembarking in the Gulf of Taranto, he took his first Italian photographs in the marshalling yards at Foggia, contributions to his collection of 160 annotated war prints. Amongst his Scottish work he has created an extensive photographic survey of the River Clyde from source to sea, including a study of the island of Ailsa Craig. The few intriguing images that are shown here, his first Web published work, barely hint at the fascinating and extraordinary collection of images that this consistent and unassuming man has created.