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Coltishall. loved it
Thank you FB. Enjoyed it, Just think of all the old footage in peoples attics that will never see the light of day and will be skipped when they pass away during the house clearance, sad. We need to speak to our elders and get that footage online before it's too late.
Brings back memories of a lovely lady neirbour who passed away around 10 years ago. She was one of the original trolly dollies who was in her 80's when she passed. She flew on Lancastrians after the war and she showed me her passports and all the amazing "stamps" in them where she had been over her career.
After she passed away, her sister had binned them, which I retrieved and saved a piece of history (they never did get on)
You're welcome Sir, I understand fully what you mean about retrieving archive film, my father had a collection of 8mm colour film, as seen in my link, it dated back to the 1950s and petered out about the beginning of the 1970s. It had many gems such as my christening back in early 1961, scenes of family occasions such as Christmas etc in a house in Kilwinning called Urana, which still stands across from the river Garnock today. There was also footage of Finningley air show in 1966. When he passed away in 1976, my mother handed the projector, screen and recorded reels over to her brother, my uncle. I've not seen them since, I wasn't happy at the time and all attempts to retrieve them have failed thus far. They last ended up in the hands of my aunt following a divorce settlement. I once had the opportunity to express my wish just to retrieve the reels to place them all on DVD set to music of the era, this was to give to my mother as a Birthday present. My uncle was unhelpful, refusing to give any contact details for my aunt, I think he honestly thought I was using this as some sort of excuse for poking my nose in unhelpfully between them. I haven't given up, my cousin is now my last hope via social media. But anyway I've rambled on as oft happens here, but I'm right with you, preservation of film footage is essential to help properly understand history, all the best fellah.
FB