As I'm in my second childhood and my memory is not what it was, Carmi's theme this week has caused me some problems.
I've shown the house where I was born on more than one occasion.
I've shown the house where I was born on more than one occasion.
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| 100 High Street, Ketton |
That stone wall didn't exist back then and there was another empty building behind it to the left, Our front had a double grey gate and a grey wooden fence; a rose-bedecked trellis lined the drive where box hedge is on the right. There where no hatched white lines on the road, just one line down the middle.
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The traffic island didn't exist either; although this is main road from Stamford to Leicester, during the late 1940s it was safe enough to use it as a football field - with a tennis ball of course.
The oldest photo I have of me is aged 12 in Stamford School boxing team.
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| Stamford School Boxing Team, 1949 |
Just in case you cannot recognise me:-
My pastimes in my second childhood include watching and counting the birds in our garden and photographing them when I'm quick enough. Some just pose.
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| Wood Pigeon at the birdbath - 24 January 2015 |
even during the RSPB's Great Garden Bird Watch.
My wife says I'm playing when I'm out with my camera and uploading what I've taken to my computer. Here's one I took yesterday.
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| Two of five wind turbines - from Dent's Lane, Kirklevington |
Not only do I play with Thematic Photography I also take part in Sepia Saturday. This week this involves me playing with some poster memories of my time in Stavanger.
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| QEII visiting Stavanger - July 1980 |
The structure on the left is the topside deck for the Statfjord 'B' platform under construction at Rosenberg Verft where I was working. I was too small to be seen in the photo and regret to this day never having a camera with me to take my own photos - not that I would have been allowed on the helicopter from which the shot was taken.
However my second childhood memory has been good enough to find the souvenir poster we were given.
For more childhood memories don't forget to look in on Carmi's childhood thematic-photographic-323.
