Jim Blake was born at the end of 1947, and he soon developed a passionate interest in railways, buses and trolleybuses. In 1961, he began transport photography, and throughout the 1960s and 1970s captured on film what are now very rare scenes of long-lost buses, coaches, trolleybuses and steam locomotives. These photographs have been published in various books and magazines over the past forty-five years, but there remains much unpublished material, which appears in his Pen & Sword books. Jim also started the North London Transport Society and, in conjunction with the group, he compiled and published a number of books on buses, trolleybuses and railways between 1977 and 2013, featuring many of the 100,000 or so transport photographs he has taken over the years.
