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Resumption of normal service. We would like to thank everyone for their patience following Barry’s accident on 30 June and for all the get well wishes we received. We are pleased to announce that our normal service has now been resumed and that the backlog of orders has been cleared.
George Smith. George’s negatives have now been added and can be accessed in the normal way (15/8/10).
Nick Nicolson. More of Nick’s negatives have been added to roll film list (up to LN3817) (10/8/10).
Ken Coursey. More negatives have been added to the list. (12/8/10).
Mystery Pictures. At last we have added some more mystery pictures for you to identify(2/6/10).
Colour Images. We have decided to trial a colour gallery with Photobox and this is now available. We would be grateful to receive feedback on the quality and speed of service provided by Photobox. An additional 15 Roy Vincent colour images have been added to the gallery as at 5 April 2010. Please refer to the list on the Colour Images page for details of the pictures available in the gallery. If this venture is successful then we will add more colour to the gallery from our extensive collection.
Eric Sawford. Work has begun to compile a list of the negatives taken by Eric Sawford.
Leslie R Freeman. Finally, we have completed the listing of Leslie Freeman’s circa 9000 negatives. Our thanks goes to Pamela Freeman for making the collection available, James Harrold for his words about his good friend Leslie, and, last but not least, to Gina North who undertook successfully and without complaint the Herculian task of typing the list.
W A C Smith. It is our sad duty to report the death of Bill Smith of Glasgow whose
photography spanned 70 years during which time he amassed in excess of 35,000 images.
We had the pleasure of printing Bill’s negatives over the past 10 years and we were
honoured that Bill and Doris -
Royston Aubrey Yeomans. John Parkes, cousin of the late Royston Aubrey Yeomans, has donated the negative and transparency collection taken by Mr Yeomans. The subject matter of this collection is fascinating as Mr Yeomans took hundreds of photographs showing all the detail of locomotives, coaches and other infrastructure on the railway. The images will be invaluable to railway modellers and enthusiasts and we look forward to producing the list in due course.
Railway Magazine. Do take a look at the article on The Transport Treasury in the September 2008 issue of Railway Magazine.
Trams/Buses. We have now started the listing of some of our extensive collection of trams and buses. Lists will be updated continually so please be patient.
Hard-
Norris Forrest: We discovered that Norrie Forrest
developed a camera focusing fault beginning with film 122 and therefore we have had
to withdraw some images from the listings. The fault was not apparent from the 35mm
contact prints but was very noticeable when enlargements were ordered. We regret
to say that the fault continued until film 201 before the photographer became aware.
