P B WHITEHOUSE

摘要

A phenomenon of the golden age of railway enthusiasm - those four decades of the 1950s to 1980s -Pat Whitehouse was a supremely well-organised and persuasive 'Mr Fixit' with a string of achievements to his name. Preservation, books, broadcasting, photography, he contributed greatly to them all. Patrick Bruce Whitehouse was born in Warwick on February 25, 1922. In later life his photographs and notes were often initialled PBW and for brevity that is how I shall refer to him. His father, Cecil Whitehouse, owned a substantial construction company - B Whitehouse & Son - that was heavily involved in post-First World War renewal, new housing estates, blocks of apartments, and commercial and public buildings, mainly in the West Midlands. His mother Phyllis, (nee Bucknall), came from the Ellerman & Bucknall Lines shipping dynasty, a somewhat haughty family, who did not approve of their daughter marrying into 'trade' (shipowners were not trade, they were merchant princes).