Percy William Pilcher

This article is about the photographer. For the aviator, see Percy Pilcher.

Percy William Pilcher (5 July 1866 – 3 May 1937),[1][2] ARCO,[3] was an organist, composer, and a railway photographer, who was one of the first in Britain to capture images of moving trains. 250 of his glass plate negatives from the F. Burtt collection are held by the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, the earliest of which has been dated to around 1881–2. Pilcher sold much of his work to F. Moore's Railway Photographs (later the Locomotive Publishing Company), who published them as uncredited prints and postcards. The corresponding negatives are also now in the possession of the NRM.[4][5]

  1. ^ Venn, John (1898). Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897, Volume II: 1715–1897. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 471. Retrieved 2 October 2022 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Sudden Death – Passing of Mr P. W. Pilcher". The Boston Guardian. No. 4297. 7 May 1937. p. 10. Retrieved 2 October 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "Tuition - Mr. P.W. Pilcher, M.A., A.R.C.O.". Shrewsbury Chronicle. Vol. 133. 15 December 1905. p. 1. Retrieved 2 October 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "The P W Pilcher collection of railway photographs". The National Archives. London. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  5. ^ Patrick, David J. (2007). The Railway Photographs of P. W. Pilcher. Chester: London & North Western Railway Society. ISBN 9780954695149.