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Post by Samba on Nov 20, 2017 17:43:26 GMT 1
If i can add my two penny worth, Keep hold of the slides as long as you can , keep them dry and stored in a safe place, the history surrounding these images is unique and you can never replace it. With the advent of Photoshop and other such edditing software you can turn something that was destined for the bin a few years into a masterpiece. Now i'm retired i use my library for my articles, without this in the past year retirement would have been much harder. Thanks for your great work over the last week and we both owe Mike a few cases of his favourite beers.
Bob O'Brien.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 20:43:40 GMT 1
I would endorse Samba's comments. I have mentioned before that a dear friend and ex-colleague of mine got divorced and moved some distance away from home. He came back to see his (by then) grown-up children, only to discover that his missus had thrown out all his slides. I used to call him Stephen Piercey, because he had hundreds of slides taken in South America, Angola and Yemen - amazing stuff. I used to go to his house for slide shows when he still had them! Matrimonial difficulties aside, and let's hope no-one else finds themselves in that position, if there are a lot, would a bank vault be too ridiculous a suggestion?
Almost all my photos are from colour negatives and they are in strips and kept in special acid-proof paper, which in turn are in strong clip folders, but I appreciate that most people have the straightforward slides.
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Post by jetdragon on Nov 20, 2017 21:34:08 GMT 1
Nice picture jet Dragon. Mind if I lift it into my Collection ? Ron No problem Ron - go for it JD
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Post by gerrymanning on Nov 20, 2017 21:50:40 GMT 1
Ron, Slides, especially airliners, are sold for quite high prices as today there are many collectors who were not born when the great airliners flew. The prices for some would make your hair curl so if you do plan to get rid of them check various slide auction places and e-bay.
Love Barry's shot of the Mallard G-ASCS, I remember seeing this when it arrived parked outside Starway's hangar as I went home from school. I was delighted to find that when 20 or so years later I flew in a Chalk's one in the Bahamas it was that very airframe having got to Chalk's via a Canadian operator.
Gerry
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 13:34:53 GMT 1
A few more from the archives, circa 1962: Viscount mentioned that some people used to come to the airport on bikes - well here's the evidence! An Aer Lingus DC-3 on turnaround. The same aircraft, possibly on the same day, with what looks like an expensive piece of furniture being loaded. The freight door leads me to believe that it may have been doing the Wednesday freight run - Dublin/Liverpool/Birmingham/Dublin. Mushrooms inbound - anything else outbound! The loaders once found a washing machine in the space to the right of the doors, with no identification on it. When we phoned Dublin to tell them, they said "Ah, to be sure, we've been lookin' for dat for the last tree days!" Another DC-3, or rather an EC-47D, on one of the Burtonwood liaison flights. It looks as though the crew are intrigued by the ramps being positioned to the BKS B170 which had probably just arrived from Dublin on the car ferry run. An Oxford Aviation Apache, perhaps doing an executive charter. It crashed about a year later whilst on a flight from Gatwick to Lyons. The Starways DC-3 looks like G-AMPO ...and from the other side, showing the southern end of the old terminal. I think the lamps were called gimlet lamps or something similar and had a huge battery inside. They were placed at the wingtips, usually for aircraft which were parked overnight. I suppose you could describe this as an Auster GT, owned at the time by a Mr Haggis, who lived in Woolton. The official designation is an Auster D6 Series 180. Note the fairing on the tailwheel. According to G-INFO, this aircraft is still around. Yankee Kilo again. Note that the Starways titles have been removed, which may suggest that she was on her way to the Congo, as part of the UN presence there. Starways supplied a number of aircraft to the UN mission, and lost G-APIN to enemy fire at Katanga airport. Kilo Delta about to touch down on 26 on the regular Dublin run.
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Post by Samba on Nov 21, 2017 14:13:15 GMT 1
Lovely shots Barry, it's about time they saw the light of day again, any Eagle to come out? Bob.
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Post by vanguard on Nov 21, 2017 15:58:30 GMT 1
Hello Garstonboy,talking of bikes i to rode up to the airport and parked the bike in the bike stands provided at the other end of the terminal by gate 6 i think and it was still there when i came back to it.The "glims" as the lights were called were still in use up to 1972,maybe even a bit longer. Frank.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 16:03:00 GMT 1
Lovely shots Barry, it's about time they saw the light of day again, any Eagle to come out? Bob. Strangely, I have very few Eagle (or Cambrian) photos in either b&w or colour. I suppose, like many of us, I took them for granted at the time. I plead guilty, but insane!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 16:14:24 GMT 1
Hello Garstonboy,talking of bikes i to rode up to the airport and parked the bike in the bike stands provided at the other end of the terminal by gate 6 i think and it was still there when i came back to it.The "glims" as the lights were called were still in use up to 1972,maybe even a bit longer. Frank. Yes, I know where you mean. Bernie (Joe Egg) who collected the money on the balcony, used to ride a bike to work every day. I don't think it ever went missing - those were different days! I don't know who those bikes belonged to. Of course we were living in the days when you could leave a bike or two near an open entrance onto the apron and no-one would bother! 'Glims' that's the word! (I've been trying to think of that all morning!)
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Post by ronturner on Nov 21, 2017 21:49:25 GMT 1
Yes, I rode my bike there, from Huyton via Gatacre. (Steep hill that) When the weather was bad I took the 89 as far as the roundabout. Here is one from 1963. G-ASFF Aztec 235 operated by W.T.Clarke. No record of the registration of the Viscount. At first look I thought the Aztec was pulled up in what was called the Customs Square, (An area designation for those which came from foreign parts, usually Ireland, so the customs man did not have to walk too far, presumably.), but on closer examination; perhaps not. This machine passed away in 1977. G-ASFF Aztec 235 May 1963 W.T.Clarke by Ron Turner, on Flickr
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Post by philglt on Nov 21, 2017 22:19:19 GMT 1
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Post by ronturner on Nov 21, 2017 22:31:45 GMT 1
Blimey, what a coincidence.
At this point, may I say how grateful I am to Mike (radio stationx) for the help in getting my old scanner to work on my Windows10 machine and for his tutorials in the use of proper editing tools. With him in Liverpool and me in France: not the easiest of tasks. The downside to all of this is that the garden and other tasks have gone to pot whilst I am engaged with my new toys.......
Thanks Mike!!!
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Post by radiostationx on Nov 21, 2017 23:57:34 GMT 1
No problems Ron, Glad to be of help. I incidentally guys, I wondered when looking at all these great photos, what was the spotters camera and lens combo of choice back in the 1950s-60s ? I imagine the Feds were popular and perhaps Zorki rangefinders. Japanese slr cameras were very expensive back then. Needless to say, some of the images are outstanding. For example, The BMA viscount by jetdragon , has never ending depth of field. | G-BFZL - V.836 Viscount - British Midland Airways - Liverpool 090483 by Jet Dragon, on Flickr I would be interested to know something about what was in the spotters bag in the 1950s -60s.
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Post by viscount on Nov 22, 2017 0:21:53 GMT 1
Between 1961 and 1970, through my teenage years, I used a Kodak Brownie 127 - essentially a plastic 'pin-hole' camera - no focus, no aperture, no shutter speed. Film had to be loaded in a dark room (no cassette, just a spool) and you had just 8 large format negatives per roll. The viewfinder was only approximately what the lens would capture. I was not alone in such basic equipment, although some had refinements like focusing - a number of the b&ws on Burtonwood and Speke threads (which will be reposted in time after Photobucket's arbitrary deletion) were taken on such cameras and I've just cleaned up all my surviving early pictures to post shortly.
Around the age of 20 I entered the world of 35mm film, with the purchase of a Practika Nova 1B - an SLR with a light meter (but not TTL); you set speed and aperture manually for each shot as indicated by a needle in the viewfinder. The standard lens was 50mm, to which I added a 135mm and a 400mm screw thread lens. Zooms were beyond my pocket in the 70s. Main alternative to the Practika as a basic SLR was the Zenith (Zenit?). Had a succession of Practikas or similar, but now with manual or automatic shutter speed/aperture setting, TTL metering along with 35-135mm and 135-350mm zooms and bayonet fitting between lens and camera. These lasted right up until my first digital compact (Fuji) around 2005, and then later a SLR digital camera (Canon).
Well, foolishly you did ask.....
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Post by jetdragon on Nov 22, 2017 0:37:27 GMT 1
The Zenit was my weapon of choice - bought out of my pocket money from my mum's Littlewoods catalogue
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