I have a amassed a vast collection of Victorian books packed to the gunnels with beautiful and often fascinating illustrations.
Their detailing can be exquisite, and think it’s such a shame that these beautiful images are being lost to time, consequently I’m trying to scan and save as many as I can.
Over the last few years I have been contacted by people galore asking where I got my illustrations from and did I have any of grief stricken women/happy children/beach donkeys/steam trains/Weymouth/Portland and any manner of subjects.
I have now decided that I’ll start putting them into my portfolio on IStock/Getty, that way they are easily searchable for interested parties rather than me randomly leafing my way through my library looking for specific things.
https://www.istockphoto.com/gb/portfolio/cannasue?excludenudity=true&sort=best
But should there be something specific you’re looking for, send me a message and I’ll try my best to find it.
VICTORIAN TALES FROM WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 
Hello Sue, sorry to use this page to contact you, but I have lost your e mail address.
Do you have any information on an “Echo” article from some years back about a “Wingnut Tree” that was planted as a seed during WW2 by an American serviceman in a Weymouth garden. When it became too big for the garden it was relocated in Radipole gardens. Len Collins Queens Road.
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Hello Leonard, no i’ve not heard about that, but as i’m on the Friends of Radipole park and gardens committee I can certainly find out for you, we’ve recently had a survey done of existing trees, so it should be on there hopefully, if it still exists. even if not that’s a wonderful story that can go down in our living history archives, especially with its links to the army and Radipole gardens.
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Re. the steam engine in Brewer’s quay. There’s a booklet produced by the Road Locomotive Society entilted Reading Iron Works. I no longer live in Weymouth but believe the engine was made by this firm.
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