A “steampunk” exhibition by a Victorian eccentric

An exhibition is opening soon showing off rediscovered and restored photographic work of one the 19th century’s strangest characters, Samuel Heracles Gascoigne-Simpson. The photos look like modern day steampunk, but are all over a hundred years old.
(c) Nick Simpson
Actually, scratch that – they are modern day steampunk — being the work of artist Nick Simpson.
However, unlike some, he has also woven a fantastic tale of a Victorian eccentric who made these photographs on glass p