Steve Kydd

Over the years I’ve accumulated a wide variety of interests, and this website has become a home for many of them. It’s a mixture of articles, photographs, ideas and projects—some serious, some nostalgic and some simply because they fascinated me.

There isn’t a single thread running through everything you’ll find here, other than my own curiosity. If something is worth recording, researching or photographing, there’s a fair chance it’ll end up on these pages. I hope you enjoy looking around, and perhaps stumble across something that interests you too.

  • T.S.S. California

    T.S.S. California

    The story of the T.S.S. California, a Clyde built ship from 1923.

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  • Loch Awe Hotel Postcard

    Loch Awe Hotel Postcard

    This postcard, probably produced by the Hotel, advertises the facilities available – Golf Course, Motor Garage and Electric Light!

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  • TS KING GEORGE V

    TS KING GEORGE V

    Built in 1926, T.S. King George V was a Clyde passenger turbine steamer.

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  • Los Angeles Portrait Studios, Edinburgh

    Los Angeles Portrait Studios, Edinburgh

    Los Angeles Portrait Studios was one of Edinburgh’s best-known commercial photography studios during the first half of the twentieth century.…

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  • Franz Hedrich

    Franz Hedrich

    Franz Hedrich was a German-Bohemian author and ghostwriter to Alfred Meissner.

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  • Alexander James Adie

    Alexander James Adie

    Alexander James Adie was one of Edinburgh’s greatest scientific instrument makers. Inventor of the sympiesometer and optician to royalty, his…

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