Andrew Rothe

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"I'm talking rubbish to cover up the cracks An empty vessel who can't make contact" NTU (BA 2017, MA 2021) -Sales Assistant 💳 -Assistant Museum Curator 🏛️ -Heritage Rail Volunteer 🚂 -Photographer 📷 -History Lover 🖼️ -Geek 🎮

In a stubble field backed by woodland, a pair of farm workers are tilting a traditional blue and red balance plough on its centre axle. A black steam ploughing engine sits behind the plough and connected to it, with two people on the footplate. Further away, a very similar ploughing engine that is black with orange wheels is releasing excess steam through its safety valves.
A pair of railway lines leading up a steep hill, with moss growing on the sleepers and trees growing along the sides.
A photo of a double jointed arm pressed onto a desk top
A tree-lined Welsh valley illuminated by low sunshine under blue skies.
Two people driving & steering a green and black steamroller around a grassy event field on a bright summer's day.
A white lighthouse sitting on a small island just offshore, illuminated by low afternoon sunshine.
A dark red railway locomotive, specifically a standard gauge saddle tank with 6 wheels, chained down firmly to a flatbed trailer which is being moved around a car park in bright sunshine.
A single-engine WWII RAF aircraft painted in a matte-black finish, sitting inside a musem building.
A brick wall in a dark underground space
A photograph of a smartly-dressed woman wearing a hat with a wide-brim. She smiles through gritted teeth as Donald Trump leans in to kiss her on the cheek, but finds he is unable to reach her cheek due to the width of the brim of her hat.
A red traction engine with three people on the footplate, being driven across an old airfield.
A large green steam locomotive with a red buffer beam. The carriages behind the locomotive are a bright shade of crimson. The locomotive has two white oil lamps mounted on the front, along with a numberplate that reads '6880' and a grey board with the words 'Cambrian Coast Express' cast into it. The sky is blue, but filled with scattered clouds. The grass around the railway track is a mixture of yellows and greens.
A woman and two boys stood on the footplate of a steam traction engine in an indoor environment. The younger boy is holding the steering wheel of the steam engine.
The British actors/comedians David Mitchell & Robert Webb, both dressed smartly in suits, standing in front of a grand building with other buildings of a central-asian architectural style in the background. The word 'Ambassadors' is stamped inside a large circle, with the silhouette of a horned goat below it.
A large double decker bus with a red, white and blue striped colour scheme, parked on a grassfield with trees and houses in the background. Other buses are visible around it. The white writing on the side and front says 'Travel West Midlands' and the bus' destinaation blind says '126 Wolverhampton via Dudley'. The letters 'MCW' are present on the front grill.
A small green steam railway locomotive with an assorted rake of red coal hopper wagons behind it. There is a clear blue sky above it, small weeds growing between the rails and an old stone engine shed located in the background to the left.
A steam locomotive sits at a modern station under a clear blue morning sky. There's a cream-coloured metal headboard on the front that says 'The Shakespeare Express' in dark-brown serif letters. A wreath of yellow and white flowers is attached below it, just below a numberplate with '45596' in white characters. The buffer beam is a bright red and very clean, and the buffers are both highly polished steel.
A tall sailing ship with a white hull and pale yellow masts & funnel. A covered slip (a large building with many windows in its sloped roof) is visible behind it on the right. A sign on the side of a gangplank leading up to the ship on the left hand side says 'HMS Gannet (1878)'. A small crane can be seen in the bottom left of the shot, as well as the tip of the rounded bulbous nose of a black military submarine.
A large ornate fairground organ with a large hand-carved facade covered in gold gilt. Several small statues are placed on the front, the central one depicted as a traditional Spanish matador and holding a conductor's baton. The name 'Pat Collins' is written in lights at the top of the frontage and the word 'WONDERLAND' is sign-written in ornate orangey/red capital letters across boards at the bottom. The name 'C. H. Marenghi & Cie.' is visible above the matador figure. The Marenghi Company were the manufacturers of the facade, whereas the organ pipework and mechanism behind it was assembled by the firm Chiappas of London from various parts made by different companies.
A medium-sized black steam railway locomotive, carrying the fleet number 32424 on the front, sitting in a station with steam emitting from the safety valves and drain valves. The sky is mostly overcast and cloudy.
Two men operating a green & red coloured Aveling & Porter steam roller in the heavy haulage arena at the 2018 great Dorset Steam Fair. Various other steam engines, craft stalls, fairground rides and exhibits are visible in the background.