Historic Disposable Camera (The Results)

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Just over 12 months since this was started I can now reveal the results of the first successful forum disposable camera. I'll let the takers explain the thinking behind their shots.

Imagine a beer called Easijet !!!
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Stocking filler to use up the film
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The present Mrs Anorak
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Glad the project was successful, not exactly the content that I expected, so maybe the 'takers' do owe us explanations!:D

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Beaver at Middle Wallop

Mine's No. 3.
Not my original idea but the weather was rubbish that time of year and for a while there was an idea of getting camera done quickly:rolleyes:

It's the DHC Beaver parked outside the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop. Idea being a historic aircraft at a historic location. Did it work?

Blue sky would have been nicer but there wasn't much around at the time.

Quite a variety of choices here, interesting results!

John

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:) I was surprised at how good the photos turned out,thanks for Scanning them:D
Photo 7 Hans Pohl gravestone
I used the camera on some German war graves in my old local cemetery at Saffron Walden Essex.

There are several german graves there i have also found this

http://www.btinternet.com/~friends.stjames/Heinkel.htm German aircrew.
There are 4 graves of aircrew that died in 1940 and a couple that died in 1944 and some that seemed to die after the war in 1947?
http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/british_cemeteries_memorials_ext/saffron_walden_cem.htm
Photo 13,the headstones/crosses with the autumnal trees in the background is Madingley American war memorial.
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/cambridgeuk/madcem.htm

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No10 gets my vote, jets are for kids:D .

Well mine is No6, a christmass pressie from my wife, a flight in the F-4 Phantom simulator and I was the only one who managed a carrier landing:p .

There are some brilliant shots in that lot, some very thought provoking ones too, well done to all involved.

Regards,

John.

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No10 gets my vote, jets are for kids:D .

Indeed they are, not my pic however...

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Very interesting selection.

Number 11 was taken 65 years to the day after this picture was taken, from (almost) the same spot.

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No.2 is the Larkhill workshops and memorial to the old airfield, there is a pic taken from my Smart Car of the Solstice Park Gazelle sculpture, a couple in the Boscombe down museum, and the bizarre sight of a tank stopping for Pizza!!!

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My shots....

So my explanations:

N0.4 - The "Beehive" Terminal at Gatwick (As I am sure most of you know?) - once the main terminal for the airport, now a few hundred yards south of the present day airport boundary, rapidly being swallowed up in a maze of modern concrete and glass office blocks. Photo is even more "historic" since it was taken, as GB Airways, who use(d) the building as an office have since been swallowed up by EasyJet.

N0.14 - The pre-production (and engineless) MRCA XX946 (IIRC) on display at Shoreham Airport, owned by the Transair shop team. Taken one sunday afternoon last November when the weather was absolutely foul - hence the "grainy" photo. My better half disputed the fact that this was a suitably "historic" subject..."Its a modern Jet" she said. So I also shot:

N0.15 - The Art Deco Terminal building at Shoreham, often used as a film backdrop for dramas set in the 1930's etc. The propellor in the foreground is a memorial to aircrews lost from Shoreham during the war.

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And nos 8 & 12 are me - the two memorials to the airmen killed in the crash of their Bristol Coanda monoplane at Wolvercote in 1912. This was the second of the three accidents that led to the infamous ban on monoplanes. One is in the church, made from metal from the plane, and the other is on the road close to the crash site.

I did think I'd had the camera longer than I thought, as I wondered when the hell I'd taken it to Saffron Walden cemetery! There are two Kiwis buried there who my father saw collide and spin to their deaths...

Pondskater, is that Windermere?

Adrian

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Pondskater, is that Windermere?

Yes - the slipway is the only easily identifiable bit left of Short Brothers Windermere Works.

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Well done for whoever took the picture of the old Gatwick Beehive, very interesting and historic building, but is hard to find a recent picture of.

Definatly some odd choices there, entertaining none the less!

Ed oops see it was PaulF who took pic, nice one

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Mine is No.5

The fountain memorial at Sywell to the late Paul Morgan, note the missing man formation.

Blue skies Paul :o

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Well done for whoever took the picture of the old Gatwick Beehive, very interesting and historic building, but is hard to find a recent picture of.

Definatly some odd choices there, entertaining none the less!

Ed oops see it was PaulF who took pic, nice one

Thanks, glad you like it - I tried hard to try to keep any of the modern office blocks out of the frame.

Even more have gone up in the ten to twelve months since I took that photo. I couldn't help but wonder what the atmosphere would be like if all the modern cars surrounding it were replaced by a (replica) Rapide or two...

And I also wondered if the underground tunnel somewhere under my feet that linked the beehive to the old railway station on the London to Brighton railway line is still intact - I fear it may have been lost as part of the foundations/groundwork for one of the larger office developments that now effectively stand behind me as I took the photo :( . The shot was taken looking pretty much ENE.

Paul F

Oh, and a belated Thanks to EN830 for providing the tools and developing and posting the results ofthe exercise, Thanks Ian.

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You beat me too it Paul - many thanks to EN830 for running the project - good work fella!

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... Imagine my suprise when looking through this thread and seeing a photo of myself at Hendon! I guess I cannot be held responsible for actually taking the photo then, as there is proof I was the wrong side of the camera. :D

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Yes, a big thank you to EN830 for organizing this! It's very interesting to see what other people have done with it - still shaken by Trumper, though!

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And nos 8 & 12 are me - the two memorials to the airmen killed in the crash of their Bristol Coanda monoplane at Wolvercote in 1912. This was the second of the three accidents that led to the infamous ban on monoplanes. One is in the church, made from metal from the plane, and the other is on the road close to the crash site.

I did think I'd had the camera longer than I thought, as I wondered when the hell I'd taken it to Saffron Walden cemetery! There are two Kiwis buried there who my father saw collide and spin to their deaths...

Pondskater, is that Windermere?

Adrian

:eek: Which collision was that Adrian,my Dad witnessed one near RAF Debden ,was there more than one in that area.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=60315&highlight=Trumper
Sorry did'nt mean to surprise you :D

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Phew! (breathes sigh of relief)

No, the one my Dad saw was near Great Sampford around 1942 - two Hurricanes from the OTU dogfighting. Sadly I can't remember the pilot's names. There's also a pilot buried there who's Hurricane i saw being uninterred when I was about 7. Between a Dad who remembered things like that and seeing the Hurricane dug out, that's why I'm here...

Adrian