Photohistoric represents part of a collection of photographs taken by Peter Robinson. Many of these are motor sport related and were from the late Sixties and early Seventies.
Personalities photographed include Graham Hill, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini, Phil Hill, Brian Redman, Richard Attwood, Derek Bell, Jackie Stewart, Colin Chapman, Bruce McLaren, Hannu Mikkola, Simo Lampinen, Timo Makinen, Stig Blomquist, Tony Fall, Paddy Hopkirk and many others from that period. From the personalities involved it will be seen that the collection includes photographs from motor racing, rallying and rallycross. Some of these photographs are unique in that they were taken during private test sessions where there was no press presence. Some were taken whilst spectating in positions and situations that would be impossible to experience today whilst others were taken on specific events where his participation prevented more typical action shots.
The result is a collection of personal memories from a period of Club and International motor sport that has emerged as one of the most interesting and relevent in motor sport history given today’s public fascination with historic racing and rallying.
The web site allows these pictures, displayed in low resolution format, to be purchased. Those purchased will then be digitally transmitted to the purchaser in high density format. The size of those files requires broadband connection for successful receipt.
In addition to these photgraphs copies, of Peter Robinson’s book Memory Lanes…..revisited can also be purchased through Photohistoric (commencing November 2011). This book is about the Motoring News rallying championship and covers the years 1970 to 1973 with detailed accounts of 57 rallies and includes some 275 period pictures. It is a second edition of Memory Lanes, a highly successful book first published in 2008 The pictures within the new book were not taken by Peter Robinson but have been collected from a wide range of sources many of which are published by kind permission of Ferret Fotographics. All of the book’s pictures attributed to Ferret can be purchased through this site.
There will also be an increasing number of modern photographs added to the site covering not only motor sport but also sailing (traditional and modern), travel and other topics of interest
Peter Robinson is a life long motor sport enthusiast dating back to the early 1960s. In the late sixties he was a very active rally enthusiast and subsequently took part in his first Motoring News rally in 1970. After a break of many years he re-entered the sport in Historic stage rallies, firstly with a Renault Alpine and then a Lotus Cortina. Both of these were 1965 cars and with the latter he won Class awards and attained top ten results in both UK and Belgian rallies. In 2008 he released his firstbook on rallying, Memory Lanes (a history of the 1970 to 1973 Motoring News Rally Championship) and this year will release a further book on the subject, Memory Lanes.......revisited.