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Larry Fullwood. We have now added the first batch of negatives on the new Southern region list. The final batch of Midland region and some Scottish have also been added to Midland region list.
Mystery Pictures. 18 mystery colour pictures probably Shap or Settle & Carlisle. (16/12/11).
Eric Sawford. A further 100 negatives have been added to the Eric Sawford listing (15/12/11).
Roy E Vincent Collection. We have finally listed the remainder of the Roy Vincent collection (see Medium Format negative list). There were no details with this last batch of negatives so information is rather sparse. We would encourage anyone to inform us of any additional detail that they may be able to add so that we can update the listing.
Colour Images. We have neglected our collection of colour images for far too long and so hope to include more in the Colour Gallery in the near future. Please be aware that colour prints are ordered directly from Photobox through the Colour Gallery and not from the archive in Insch.
Martin Conway Cook. We are indebted to Jenny Howells for donating the transparencies of the late Martin Conway Cook to the archive. Martin travelled extensively through Europe and Asia and amassed many images from his travels as well as a large collection of video.
Mystery Pictures. 17 more pictures added on 23/6/11. Be sure to refresh your cache using Ctrl+F5 when visiting the page.
New Collections. We are grateful to David M E Lindsay for donating his collection to the archive. David was resident in Edinburgh in steam days but now lives in Anglesey. We are also grateful to Richard Roberts for donating his late father’s (Sydney Roberts) negatives and slides to the archive.
Postage Increase. Whilst we have absorbed for now the last 4 increases in the cost
of photographic paper we regret that it is not cost effective for us to also absorb
the latest 5% rise in postal charges. Therefore with immediate effect, our postage
and packing charges will rise to £1.50 for first-
Ian Bowman. We have been very fortunate to acquire the photographic collection of the late Ian Bowman from his family.
Ian’s negatives number circa 16,000 (1954-
George Heiron. We are no longer able to supply images from the George Heiron collection as the negatives have been returned to Mrs Heiron at her request.
Ilford Price Increases (again!). We have received advice of price increases on Ilford black and white materials effective on the 1st February 2011. Paper increases by around 20%, some items 35% & chemicals by around 5%. This is the third price increase by Ilford in the last 12 months and the problem is that Ilford pretty much have a monopoly in the paper market. Kodak pulled out a few years ago, which was a shame as they were slightly cheaper than Ilford at the time.
The eastern European offerings are, surprisingly, even more expensive and they are more geared towards the fibre based market. Any other UK brand is actually manufactured by – guess who – so prices will be doing the same.
We have stockpiled paper to ease the problem but with the increase in VAT as well we will be forced to increase our print prices by between 10p and 50p in the near future.
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.
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.
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.
