Throughout the late 1920s and ’30s, Mr Kille’s photos of West Somerset scenes regularly appeared across a range of national newspapers including The Daily Telegraph, The Manchester Guardian, the News Chronicle, The Daily Express as well as regional dailies.
His family has now found 400 fragile glass plates, each carefully preserved in brown paper sleeves.
The photographs depict the local area – the long since demolished Minehead Lido, the last launch of the wooden sailing lifeboat, old farming methods, ships and their sailors.