| Description | Hot bath platinotype print. Photographed by James Simkins, Lyncombe, Kings Norton at 12.00 hours, 4 May 1891. Exposure time 2 seconds F32. Sunshine. Focus of lens 7.75 inches Paget XX. A note on the back of the photograph reads: 'The old man in the smock [?] is Thomas Pegg, who laid claim to being the oldest inhabitant in the 3 villages of Austrey, Seckington and Newton Regis'. |