Well I'm Gabberflasted! Photographic content ;)

[pepper]

This morning after a busy weeks work all over the lovely North West of England, I sat down to my yummy bowl of porridge and opened my mail.

I then sat there for an hour and a half going through some lovely photographs that a certain Lord Admiral of these parts had sent me.

Thank you Ian, they are some excellent photographs I will endeavour to get some posted up on the forum for everyone else to see.

Do you think that the ones that had restrictions placed on them will be OK to post these days?


I then opened another envelope and found some information Ian had sent me about a lovely looking mill in our village in France that had been up for sale a few years ago. The vendors had gone to an awful lot of trouble providing lots and lots of local information, some of which I didn't know about!

Ian we shall definitely have to go and have a nosey to see if the rest of the work has been completed.

Thank you once again. I shall be busy trying to get decent copies of the photos for everyone else to see.

 

[ian Stanbury]

..Pepper dear boy..

..I am so pleased they have all arrived and am thrilled to hear you are pleased with both packages.

Cant wait to see some of them here but I didnt want to bore everyone with them but if you are going to post some, then here are 3 interesting ones of my own.

My Uncle Frank Stanbury was attached to 807 Squaron - Fleet Air Arm out of Yeovilton during the war and was on lots of carriers, including the carriers HMS Illustrious and HMS Indomitable.

He says in his log that they didnt spend much time on HMS Indomitable as 3 weeks after they embarked on the Clyde for the Mediterranean campaign, they were hit by an Italian bomber and disabled.

Luckily the carrier didnt sink and made its way under its own steam to Malta.

HMS Illustrious was attacked constantly and here is his pic of her original ships bell - I hope no one was ringing it at the time of the attack!!

Frank serviced 807 Sqadrons Seafires (seen here in the bottom pic lined up with their pilots) and the other pic is him (in the middle) is giving one of the Seafires an MOT !!

 

[pepper]

Great pictures! Ian how are you getting your pictures onto digital media? Scanning photographing how? They come out ace whichever way you're doing it!

 

[ian Stanbury]

..I just use our Printer / Scanner Pepper..

..Most Printer / scanners should be able to scan old photos in digital format.

Cant wait to see your 'old crashes' photos, if you know what I mean!!

 

[ian Stanbury]

..Nil desparandum Malcolm..

..You have warned me and now it only my photos that get published here including a few from my collection of old photos with fleeting glimpses of a R4, all bought from French flea markets...

And Uncle Franks pics? To help you sleep soundly, here I am surrounded by hundreds of them, but I promise not to bore you and the team with any more... I will leave that honour to Pepper..!!

...........................................................Bloody hell Malcolm you have removed the photos adding system - Boo bloody hoo!!!

 

[tim1casa]

They are nice pics. I can't even get mine off my mobile phone. Middle photo is a Fairey Fulmar though. I recently discovered a factory nearby (in deepest Suffolk) still making spitfires. They can't have realized the wars ended.

 

[pepper]

OH whats happened to the picture adding software?

 

[malcolm]

I've turned the photo uploading back on.

The mention of a whole CD full of photos from Ian and talk of uploading them had me terrified. We've got to be careful on the forum to make sure that any we own the copyright for any photo we upload or have permission from the copyright holder. Otherwise I risk being sued for a lot of money which would make the forum unsustainable.

Sounds like you do have permission for those images - I assumed pictures of R4s from unknown sources.

 

[Bluebell]

...........................................................Bloody hell Malcolm you have removed the photos adding system - Boo bloody hoo!!![/B]

.............I must upload all the pictures I've got of my Dad when he won the war. And what about my gite ads? And the B&B of that friend of mine..........:eek:

 

[pepper]

Phew its all back, we're all safe now! Bluebell lets see the photos of your Dad now.

 

[ian Stanbury]

..Confused of SE21 Bluebell..

..Hello Bluebell and hope all is Renault 4ish in Burgundy

In your above thread you seem to be suggesting something that I cant quite understand.

Are you saying that you do want to post loads of interesting old family pics of days gone by, advertise your and anyone elses Gite and your neighbours B and B or are you suggesting that only things Renault 4 should be discussed here?

I suspect the latter, as very few of us ever go off message - am I correct?

Cabin Boy Stanbury

 

[malcolm]

Didn't mean to stir up a birds nest.

Clementine's Cafe is intended to be off-topic where we can post things like our Turner Prize entries.