Snapshots Of Britain.

[anotheoldgit]

Just thought I would share for your comments these lovely photos of a long ago Britain, I noticed that most men in those days wore collars and ties, the ladies were most smartly dressed and one could leave one's bike unchained.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2931389/From-Queen-Mother-prime-day-beach-Box-colour-slides-bought-13-car-boot-sale-shows-Britain-looked-innocent-age.html

[stuey]

Here's an interesting article about the Brownie: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30530268

[Mamyalynne]

Great snapshots of a time gone by - still smiling at the terrified faces of the bridesmaid and pageboy in the last shot,bless em.

[naomi24]

AOG, I was being polite.

[jno]

yes, PP, i was wondering why whoever captioned the photos hadn't noticed that two of them were the same place.

Obviously if you wanted to walk through St Ives in a top hat back then, you had to have a police escort. Dangerous days.

[Peter Pedant]

I thought that one was posed

I just don't remember an instamatic in the fifties

I recollect my father going ballistic over the cost of colour photos
I thought they went around in 'eights' - two quid would be over twenty now

£2.50 for each print. I muse about the cost whenever I review my digital photoes

[Peter Pedant]

well heeled of St Ives - probably on the council
who took holidays in Bournemouth

and didn't have any children - cant be that many candidates

[bhg481]

I'd moved on to 35mm by then and films came in 12/24/36 for that size.

[andres]

I have a Kodak Brownie six-20 , MODEL D with flash contacts.Unused and in its original canvas case. I remember taking photos with a similar Brownie in the 50s. What a performance! Saved up for ages to buy the film. Had to make sure you were in a darkened place before opening it and threading it onto the spool. Making sure that the sun was behind your subject. Then before you could take it into the chemists to be developed there always seemed to be one last photo that needed using up. Our dog or cat got into every film. Then you had to be careful when taking the film out . The expense of developing was high . Then when you eventually got your photos there always seemed to be 'heads missing'etc.Those were the days when 'the camera doesn't lie'. But it was fun,wasn't?

[stuey]

The Brownie cameras were proof of the adage which goes something like: "What make a great image is not the camera, but the person behind it."...If you're good, you don't need gimmicky cameras or Photoshop.

[mikey4444]

Kodak Instamatics cameras were first around in 1963 apparently :::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instamatic

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

/// AOG, I was being polite. ///

My remarks regarding the couple eating al fresco, was not in anyway a slur on your post, sorry if you thought it was.