Memories of British Airfields in the 1960s (images restored)
Mar 23, 2015 22:57:07 GMT 1
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Post by viscount on Mar 23, 2015 22:57:07 GMT 1
GERRY MANNING'S PHOTOS FROM AROUND BRITAIN IN THE LATE 1960s.
I am delighted that Gerry Manning has entrusted me with a further batch of his b&w photographs, mostly from the second half of the 1960s. From his negative collection, sometime in the early 1990s he selected some 150 or so photographs to be professionally printed on near A4 size paper. These he kept safely stored away until recently, a mix of classic views of regular airliners mixed with opportunity shots of the rare and unusual.
I'm pleased to bring you these images from visits to a number of airfields around Britain. Indeed I have sorted these by region over several posts, rather than by aircraft type or chronology of date. What strikes me clearly is the freedom we had then on airfields to get up close to aircraft, be they dead on scrap dumps or active on taxiways and runways. Not a high-viz jacket or tall chain-link security fence in sight.
Enough of the waffle, on with the nostalgia by the bucket-load. No doubt there will be members who on looking at these, will mutter "Goodness, I was there!", while others will need to seek the caption to find the type. The captions are simply those written on by Gerry in the early '90s, with a little additional comment from me.
These are the work of photographer Gerry Manning and are his copyright, which I trust will be respected. If you want to contact him to ask permission to copy any, then PM him (there is post from him a couple of replies down with his straightforward 'user name'! My role has simply been to digitise, then clean, straighten (rarely), re-contrast where necessary and crop as required (usually leaving the width but cutting out sky and grass). Quite an eclectic mixture of airliners, some common sights, others somewhat rarer. Pure unadulterated memory evoking nostalgia for those around at the time - while those that were not can scroll through and wonder at the wonderful variety of airliners that were around in the later '60s.
More of Gerry's work, featuring aircraft at Liverpool during the 1960s can be found on:
derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/13603/airliners-speke-1966-1968
With even more, featuring airfields across Europe with a wide variety of mainly airliners:
derbosoft.proboards.com/thread/17753/photos-european-airports-images-restored