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Graham Collection' saved by freelance photographer By Holdthefrontpage staff A town museum has been presented with a set of historic pictures thanks to the generosity of photographer Philip Chisholm retired in 2007.

When the news, wedding and arts photographer, who ran Studio Tristan, heard the lost 'Graham collection' was on the market from a private owner, he was determined the photographs should stay in Redcar.

Graham was a prolific Redcar Photographer in the very early part of the last Century.

The collection of 54 boxes of 5x7in glass plates is now at the Kirkleatham Hall museum, where it is being sorted and catalogued.

Phil said: "I was delighted to be able to track down and buy for Redcar the Graham collection of 5X7 inch glass pates.

"These photographs were taken by Graham of Redcar in the early 1900s.

"My next step is to raise funds to restore the collection and have an exhibition made around Graham's photography.

"Being able to help keep this collection in Redcar gives me a fantastic feeling and is well worth the money.

"The Graham collection, along with the Harry Picknet collection of Redcar Postcards in the Zetland Lifeboat museum, really pull together the jigsaw of how life was in early Red Scar."

Redcar derived its name from being built on the Redwood petrified forest within the scars that run from the sea under the town theatre and across into Station Road.

Philip Chisholm a professional photographer retired 2007 after 40 years and 3500 weddings has gained the 'Portrait of the Year, and 'Wedding Photographer of the Year' (Northern Region) awards of the British Institute of Professional Photographers.

Saltburn Photographic Club recently awarded him with the title of 'Honorary Life Member', only the second such award in the 80-year history of the club. He told the meeting: "To be awarded such an honour by my local peers is one of the hardest things in life to achieve, I am very moved to receive this accolade from a group of professional photographers who enjoy amateur status for their art, stating their photography is truly of an art form of professional standard."