Roy Avis

A retired local government officer, Roy Avis was born in 1935, at 7 Higham Road, Little Irchester, a terraced cottage overlooking the former Wellingborough London Road railway station. Much of his early enthusiasm for steam began at Kettering Grammar School, in 1947, when he joined the Ian Allan locospotters' club; railway artist Don Breckon was also a pupil there at that time. His first railway photographs were taken at Kettering Junction where the family had an allotment on the embankment;...See more

A retired local government officer, Roy Avis was born in 1935, at 7 Higham Road, Little Irchester, a terraced cottage overlooking the former Wellingborough London Road railway station. Much of his early enthusiasm for steam began at Kettering Grammar School, in 1947, when he joined the Ian Allan locospotters' club; railway artist Don Breckon was also a pupil there at that time. His first railway photographs were taken at Kettering Junction where the family had an allotment on the embankment; his father, grandfather and two uncles all worked on the railway. Unacquainted with digital technology, he still uses a Pentax medium format camera, negative roll film and transparencies. See less