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Post by radiostationx on Nov 19, 2017 23:39:26 GMT 1
Another graphical image showing development of the airport site and the demise especially of the freight railway sidings that served the factories in the area of Speke . Click on 500 x 500 pixels image below to enlarge into another page, click again on image to zoom to full sizeStrange as it may seem, there have been several proposals put forward to install new rail infrastructure around Liverpool in the very same areas that it was removed from some decades ago. It seems at times we go full circle with planning , transport in particular. Credit Bing/Microsoft for the satellite image and OS historical maps open licence.
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Post by Samba on Nov 20, 2017 8:04:45 GMT 1
BMA Viscount. Have any of our Forum members any spare slides of any BMA Viscounts at Speke, if anybody has can they get in touch. Bob.
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Post by jetdragon on Nov 20, 2017 8:11:20 GMT 1
No slides Bob but do have this
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Post by Samba on Nov 20, 2017 8:40:21 GMT 1
Thats nice, is it a print?.
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Post by jetdragon on Nov 20, 2017 8:51:48 GMT 1
Thats nice, is it a print?. Yes - it's scanned from a print as is most of my old stuff cheers JD
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Post by ronturner on Nov 20, 2017 13:39:13 GMT 1
here is one from me today, G-ASGA 19/3/1967:- I had some trouble with this, so Mike is taking a look. I have doubt it will be a lot better when he has finished his tutorial. Edit. After some comments and coaching, I clearly some hairs and which I did not see before; quite a few in fact. I blame my age or the pre lunch aperitifs..maybe both. Any way I changed the offering to the following:- Save0013G-ASGA Super VC-10 by Ron Edwards, on Flickr
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Post by radiostationx on Nov 20, 2017 13:42:32 GMT 1
Consulting the aerodrome runway map posted earlier and browsing these fantastic images I take it that early morning and summer evenings were the prime time for the most favourable lighting conditions when spotting and taking photos from the balconies ? It must have been bacon butties at dawn in the terminal then go and claim your place on the rails..
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Post by ronturner on Nov 20, 2017 13:45:05 GMT 1
Nice picture jet Dragon. Mind if I lift it into my Collection ?
Ron
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Post by Samba on Nov 20, 2017 14:01:31 GMT 1
Very nice, Mike work your magic.
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Post by ronturner on Nov 20, 2017 14:49:58 GMT 1
Looking at the shadows cast by the BMA viscount and on the VC-10, these must have been taken before mid-day. The VC-10 was probably a diversion from Manchester or Heathrow, departing sometime mid morning and same reason explains why the sky is so void of blue. Indeed looking at some of my pics where the subject is quite interesting, the mist. grey sky spoils a lot of them from beautifying and displaying.
After mid day the sun started to go around to the west and the photos are generally much better.
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Post by viscount on Nov 20, 2017 14:59:52 GMT 1
Oddly by co-incidence I got an e-mail last night with two poor images of Super VC-10 G-ASGA on her first visit to Speke January 1967 attached. March 1967 was the same aircraft, and the second visit by type to Liverpool. Not much wrong with your shot Ron, except perhaps four stray hairs and a dark speck.
I've discovered that a box I've had sitting around and last gone through over 10 years ago contains all sorts of 'goodies' in terms of b&w and colour prints of aircraft, people, events etc at Liverpool Airport, now known to a few as the NWAN Collection - they were once in a skip. Some, as prints, did get a public airing at the 2008 FoLA Airport 75th exhibition at the SAHG Air Fayre. Give me a few weeks to scan, clean, caption and add to my backlog of photos to post, and I'll be starting a few photo-heavy threads.
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Post by Samba on Nov 20, 2017 15:34:50 GMT 1
Well done Brian, this feels like a breath of fresh air.
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Post by ronturner on Nov 20, 2017 16:09:40 GMT 1
What I find strange and frustrating is that I did not see those hairs. I looked, and even when Mike mentioned it I could not see them. And yet, now they are as clear as day. Back to the drawing board.
Edit. So, now I replaced the image with a more sober one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 16:56:58 GMT 1
While we wait with bated breath for Viscount's slides, I'll put up a few of my own, though these are all b&w. I apologise in advance for the lack of detail on dates, because the logbooks which went with the photos were lost long ago in one of my many moves. I'm guessing 1960/61. All comments are from memory. So we'll start with a few DC-3s: One of my first-ever photos using 35mm. Nothing special, just a BEA DC-3 taxying in off the IOM/BFS flight I would guess. Not much activity, is there? This aircraft went to Channel Airways in 1962 and served with them until 1970 when it was broken up for spares. An occasional visitor at the time, the C-47 was here in connection with the USAF's departure from Burtonwood. The name is Fairways Rotterdam, though the image is not as sharp as I would like. An occasional visitor to Speke, bringing a change of ship's crew in the days when we had a thriving seaport. A much more exciting visitor! Euravia, the forerunner of Britannia/Thomson/Tui were running holiday flights to Spain even in the early 60s. No reg for this one, but what a sight from the balcony! Incidentally, that's smoke to the left of the picture. Judging by the windsock, there was a southerly wind and it wasn't unusual for the fumes from Stanlow to waft over the balcony! A busy day at the Starways hangar, as G-APYK is being prepared, perhaps to take pilgrims to Lourdes, while a B170 taxies out to 26. Yankee Kilo was sold to Air Ferry in 1963 after only three years in service with Starways and crashed near Perpignan four years later. Another picture from outside the Starways hangar. Much has been said about this aircraft and there is little to add, except to say it's nice to see it in flying condition! For us spotters, this was one of the rarest aircraft in the BEA fleet and there was much rejoicing when it appeared. For some strange reason, it appeared at Speke very infrequently. It was with BEA for ten years and then sold on to VASP in Brazil. By a strange coincidence, I once found myself looking at it in Jacarepagua, the old airfield and former Formula1 track just outside Rio. Little did I realise at the time that PP-SRI was the same aircraft! Last (for now), but not least, is Comanche EI-AMM. This aircraft seems to have had a number of different registrations and more owners than a clapped out Morris Minor. I see it was built in 1962, so that probably puts this photo as 1962/3. According to G-INFO, it's still around and lives in Leipzig as G-MOTO. I deliberately didn't crop this picture since it shows so much of the north end of the airport and surroundings at that time.
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Post by ronturner on Nov 20, 2017 17:27:44 GMT 1
Great stuff, Barry One of my many mistakes in life was to lend my B&W negatives to a friend and I never got them back. He had them hanging around for a while even though I asked for them back. His mother got fed up with his untidiness and binned them all.
Now here is a question for everyone using this bit of the forum When I have digitised all my slides and have them backed up on a portable hard drive too, What do I do with them. I want to bin them and Mrs T wants me to, desperately, but I just cannot bring myself to do it. What have others done?
I have a card index which cross refers them all. One card by each Type EG Viscount 800 series. Then a line for each photo more or less in date order with What where and when and its filing location amidst a couple of thousand slides. So far this is my only way to get back to a subject quickly. (The cards are a bit worn and musty,which is another bad mark for me, but again, I just cannot dispose of them.)
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