A find in the loft. ** Pics added **

These are amazing. I'd love to come across something like that in our loft at home. I dread to think what's up there though.

Sadly my late Grandmother wasn't interested in the past and, when her husband died, she destroyed everything. She did the same when another member of her family died back in the 1960s. Sadly her demolition derbies involved the burning of loads of photographs from the early 1900s, many of my grandfather's paintings and all of the letters he'd received. Letters belonging to one of my great uncles were also lost and those included handwritten letters from Queen Victoria! A huge heap of Somerset, Scottish and Anglesey history destroyed. And she did all of this before anybody knew what she'd done so nobody could stop it in time.:'(:'(

History needs to be preserved and your find is absolutely amazing.
 
Been a bit busy today, hacking old hard putty out of window frames so kit and slides safely out of harms way, but I will post some more.......not sure about posting them all.

I have been informed they are actually "magic lantern" slides.

neil_g said:
ooooh...

would you mind posting #33 please? if its "christchurch, dorset" thats just down the road from my parents house :)
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Sorry Neil, that is Christ Church North Shields not Dorset.
 
Galaxy66 said:
On Matt's advice I have been in touch with the Tyneside archive office who are keen to see them, they are to get in touch with me to set up a meeting at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle where I will probably leave them on deposit but retain ownership.
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That really is the best idea. They will be perfectly safe, properly insured, historians will be able to scan them and make use of the images and you still own them :thumbs:
 
Galaxy66 said:
On Matt's advice I have been in touch with the Tyneside archive office who are keen to see them, they are to get in touch with me to set up a meeting at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle where I will probably leave them on deposit but retain ownership.
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That's good. Let us know what they have to say about them.
I'd love to see more slides once scanned.
 
Arrangements have been made to take them to the archive office on Wednesday 11th pm. I will be having them scanned and placed on disc before then by my tog buddy Garvin at the weekend. who has assured me his scanner can slides that size.
 
MagicMynx said:
oooh please let us know if the discovery museum display prints of them - I'd love to see them!
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:plusone:

I'd love to see the full set. What a find :thumbs:
 
Hi mate,

Value permitting & all outside interest aside. Would you consider making prints & selling them?

I hail from Whitley Bay & would love to get a set of prints from these. Maybe in original format size, they would look amazing as a set, but broken up into say 6 or 9 prints in a nice frame.

Mick
 
Mickwreay said:
Hi mate,

Value permitting & all outside interest aside. Would you consider making prints & selling them?

I hail from Whitley Bay & would love to get a set of prints from these. Maybe in original format size, they would look amazing as a set, but broken up into say 6 or 9 prints in a nice frame.

Mick
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Sorry Mick, they are probably so unique I would rather the local archive office was the first to see them in their entirety, and once deposited, there are certain terms and conditions in return for their safe keeping.

I have been informed that these slides could be worth up to £15 each, more if by a known photographer, and as a set who knows.

I could have possibly entered them in a specialist photographic auction and they might attract high bidding, especially if it was discovered they were by a known photographer, but in my opinion they are going to the the right home.
 
hello

i am researching my family history , family name Lloyd .

i discovered that my great great grandfather lived in howick village in the 1860,s and worked on the Earl Grey estate as a gameskeeper , it would be great to see some photos of that era ?

also my great grandfather was born in howick and attended the local school which are now holiday cottages , some photos of howick and lesbury would be great

thankyou
 
I have just dug these out from my hard drive and will be adding a few more soon:)
 
Will get them up asap but on advice I am going to watermark them as they are unique.
Never adopted a watermark and have not a clue where to start :thinking:
 
Galaxy66 said:
Here you go then:)

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I will post some more tomorrow:)
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must be stored in ADOBE lightroom circa 1908 :lol:

just shows you how easy we have it nowadays were we can shoot to our hearts content,shove them on our hard drive and may never look at them again for a long time:(, look at the trouble the photographer has to go to here to save just 50 pictures
 
Brendan Mulachy said:
must be stored in ADOBE lightroom circa 1908 :lol:

just shows you how easy we have it nowadays were we can shoot to our hearts content,shove them on our hard drive and may never look at them again for a long time:(, look at the trouble the photographer has to go to here to save just 50 pictures
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Yep, but the bonus is ...no need for backups
And no fear of a fried hard drive.:naughty:
 
Wow what a find, I love venturing up into my loft every so many years, it's like a time capsule. Things we put up there to keep them out of the way because lack of room. It's like photos you have not seen in years, and when you come to look at them again, the changes you see :)
 
don't know about loft, went through an old hard drive and found piccies from 2002 taken with a 2Mb Fuji finepix, - the changes you see :) in just 10 years :( of me :eek:
 
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