Slides — 1979 - ’82
These trips precede my obsession with recording my travels, so the narrative is from memory which may be unreliable.
For my trip to New Zealand (January - March 1979, slides 1 - 260), I bought an SLR camera and decided to use slide film. On my return, I continued to use slides. Over the years, I have scanned most (so far) of the slides and tried to organise them in an accessible way. Herewith, part of the result.
In the early days, I sorted my slides thematically, rather than chronologically. Short of dis-mounting them all to try to recreate individual films, all I can be sure of is that all of these were taken in 1979 - 1982. Some of them were scanned many years ago; I have not bothered to re-scanned them so they may be somewhat lacking in colour accuracy.
Waverley to Tighnabruaich — Saturday, 5 August 1978
Dalkeith House and around — 1979 - 1982
Newcastle & Beamish — Saturday 5 & Sunday, 6 May 1979
Waverley on the Clyde — Summer 1979 probably
Wedding - Tony & Lucille — Friday, 4 May 1979
Wedding - Bill & Joan — Saturday, 2 June 1979
The Pipe & Gannex — Sunday, 3 June 1979
The sights of London Town — Saturday, 9 June 1979 maybe
Selkirk Common Riding (1) — Friday, 15 June 1979
A picnic near North Berwick — Summer 1979
Edinburgh — Late 1979
New Year at Jonnie's — Tuesday, 1 January 1980
Edinburgh — 1980 maybe
Selkirk Common Riding (2) — Friday, 13 June 1980
Walking with Charlie – Rannoch to Braemar — Tuesday, 14-17 April 1981
60009 leaving Waverley — Saturday, 18 April 1981
Waverley at Granton — Saturday, 30 May 1981
Waverley on the Clyde — Summer 1981
A few days in Paris — September 1981
East Neuk of Fife — 1982
Edinburgh mostly — 1982/3
And this last one should be (chronologically) elsewhere but it is more convenient to put it here.
Walking with Charlie – Across Rannoch Moor — Wednesday, 9 November 1983
Broad Law — Sunday, 19 January 1975
I have a diary entry for Broad Law on Sunday, 19 January 1975. I've only been up there twice, the other trip was in summer (and was the result of multiple miscalculations, but that's another story) so these photos must be 1975. Which means I didn't take them, so someone must have given them to me.
(The yellow car is my Triumph Dolomite) |
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| Tony, (Lucille?) & Mike |
Frosted Josh at the ATC Beacon |
Dalkeith House and around — 1979 - 1981
Newcastle & Beamish — Saturday 5 & Sunday, 6 May 1979
Dave & I went with Jonnie to visit his sister Jane and Ed in Newcastle. On Saturday, we saw the sights of Newcastle, only one of which I seem to have deemed worthy of a photograph, and on Sunday we went to Beamish and Durham Cathedral, a tour of the latter being much enhanced by Ed's commentary (him being an architect!).
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Built 1907 by the United Electric Car Company of Preston as a double-deck gallery car,
entered service as No.264. Rebuilt in 1926 with a fully enclosed upper deck and
renumbered 342 in the late 1930s. Upper deck removed at Beamish due to poor condition.
Since rebuilt to original condition.
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| Tyne, Low and High Level bridges |
Sheffield tram No.342 at Beamish | The reconstructed Rowley Station |
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| NER 0-6-0 tank engine in Rowley Station | Reconstructed pit-head | Traction engine framed in a 1931 steam excavator |
Doon the Watter — Summer 1979 probably
Tony & Lucille — Friday, 4 May 1979
Tony Harris, a colleague at Dalkeith, married Lucille at the Edinburgh Registrar's office in Queen Street. The best man was Mike Worling (another colleague) and the bridesmaid was Tony's sister. The photographer objected to wedding guests piggy-backing on his compositions so there are no photographs outside at the hotel.
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| Tony's sister = bridesmaid |
Lucille & Tony's sister | Mike's knees, Tony, Lucille and bridesmaid | Husband & Wife |
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| Husband & Wife |
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| Lucille & Tony in Queen St, Mike and bridesmaid grinning madly |
Lucille & Tony | Tony & Lucille in the wedding car |
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| Lucille & Tony through the hotel window |
Part of the top table at the reception | |
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The wedding cake |
Tony and Lucille leaving the reception |
Mike about to close the taxi door |
Bill & Joan — Saturday, 2 June 1979
The wedding was in Liverpool, and I was booked on a course at Bracknell on the Monday, staying in The Post House Hotel near Heathrow. So I hired a car for the weekend (Hertz £63.21) - one way to Heathrow (and got one two groups above what I asked for), drove down to Liverpool on the Saturday, was persuaded to stay overnight at the hotel (The Liverpool Crest, Knowsley - £11.90) and continued south on the Sunday.
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| Bridal party and guests outside the church |
Bridesmaids' backs | Tom Jeffrey |
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| Catriona talking to Dave Barrie |
Helen McGhee | Bill & Joan lead the dancing |
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Joan's mother, Tom Jeffrey and Maureen Glen |
The Pipe & Gannex — Sunday, 3 June 1979
But before continuing south, I just had to visit the iconic hostelry named in tribute to a local MP - Prime Minister Harold Wilson. I arrived half an hour before opening time and the barman invited me inside and gave me a half pint while I waited.
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The Sights of London Town — June 1979 maybe
I was in London for business reasons several times in 1979 and 1980 but have no recollection of playing the tourist. However, I have a credit card receipt from the London Tara Hotel for Saturday, 9 June and another from the Glen Eagle Hotel, Harpenden on Sunday, 10th. So for want of any better idea, I'll assume I spent that weekend in London rather than returning to Dalkeith for two nights.
The first group here appear to be a morning rehearsal for some state occasion, possibly the Trooping of the Colour which takes place in mid-June with a rehearsal on the preceding Saturday. Others appear to have been taken in the late afternoon - the clock on the Palace of Westminster shows 4.35 and that on Westminster Abbey looks like 3.50, but the light on Westminster Cathedral looks earlier in the day.
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| Procession of carriages in Buckingham Gate |
Landau passing into Buckingham Palace Road | Senior police officers |
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| Household Cavalry |
Royal Horse Artillery | Hussars |
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| Assorted cavalry Officers on the left are Coldstream & Scots Guards |
Irish, Welsh & Coldstream Guards officers Two on the right are Irish & Welsh Guards |
Scots Guards |
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| The band of the Coldstream Guards |
Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace |
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| Whitehall from Trafalgar Square |
Morrismen at the National Theatre | The City of London across the Thames |
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| The Palace of Westminster across the Thames
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I don't know why the Kenyan flag is flanking |
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War Office |
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Selkirk Common Riding (1) — Friday 15 June 1979
Jonnie invited Dave & I down to Selkirk for the celebrations. The Cavalcade usually fords the Tweed but the river level was a bit high this year so they had to use the bridge. The first two photos were taken on Thursday evening and the last on Saturday or Sunday at a picnic near St Mary's Loch. I don't remember much else of the weekend.
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| The Flodden Memorial |
Dave & Jonnie | Bussing the Colours at the Victoria Hall |
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| Bussing the Colours at the Victoria Hall |
Following the Standard along the street | Jonnie carrying the Exiles Standard |
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| The Standard Bearer rides out across the Ettrick Water |
... followed by his supporters | The Standard Bearer rides in |
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| The Standard Bearer afoot in the town square |
The Casting of the Colours | Recuperation |
A waterfall, possibly near St Mary's Loch.
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Selkirk Common Riding (2) — Friday, 13 June 1980
Jonnie invited Dave & I down to Selkirk again for the celebrations. I don't remember much of the weekend.
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| A mass of people on Thursday evening |
Selkirk Pipe Band | Leaving the Square |
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| Bands & Colours |
Nearing the Waterside | Nearing the Waterside |
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| Nearing the Waterside |
Nearing the Waterside | The new bridge across the Ettrick |
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| The new bridge across the Ettrick |
The new bridge across the Ettrick | The Standard Bearer |
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| Rear view of some horses |
The Standard Bearer in a rural setting |
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| Colour Party passing the bailey bridge |
The Standard Bearer lost in the fields | The Glen from Beech Villa |
A picnic near North Berwick — Summer 1979
Edinburgh — Late 1979
New Year at Jonnie's — Tuesday, 1 January 1980
Around Edinburgh again — Early 1980
Walking with Charlie – Rannoch to Braemar
Tuesday, 14 - Friday, 17 April 1981
60009 at Waverley Station — Saturday, 18 April 1981
The first train from Aberdeen arrived at Waverley just before the departure of a steam excursion hauled by 60009 “Union of South Africa”.
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Waverley at Granton — Saturday, 30 May 1981
Waverley on the Clyde — Summer 1981
Paris — September 1981
(pour La Noce de Robert et Martine on Saturday, 5th)
The East Neuk of Fife — probably 1982
A car trip with Val round the East Neuk. At Anstruther, I locked the keys in the car and had to be rescued by the local garage.
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| Elie (I think) |
Crail | Mid-shore, Pittenweem |
Edinburgh, Dunbar & Edinburgh — 1982/83
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Calton Hill |
And this last one should be (chronologically) elsewhere but it is more convenient to put it here.
Walking with Charlie – Across Rannoch Moor
Wednesday, 9 November 1983
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