Recent content by Mark Tooze

CD and DVD I can do as I have a portable read/write device.

To explain something to our younger (or richer) viewers:- "on the knock" was when you had something and then someone would knock you door looking for the money owed to them. "To put by" was when you put a deposit on something and it was put by out of sight in the shop until you had paid the...

Co Op man, Solly Rose man, Practical man, Provident woman...... your whole life was lived on the knock..... and don't forget the rent man - ours was a big tall old guy with all the money in a big leather satchel - another sight you would not see today!!!

Hi Lyn - what type of disc - 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 inch floppy or a cd or dvd? If it is a cd or dvd I can help. If its a floppy I can check at work if anyone still has ye-olde-desktop computer lying around.

Exactly what we did............ think the bloke used to hate us..........

Remember folks - if we have a clear night just after sunset tomorrow (June 9th) - Jupiter and Venus will be virtually next to each other in the twilight western sky - a very rare sight. If you have a really good clear view west, you may also be able to see Mercury as (by coincidence) it will...

And Lancasters made other things apart from photographic equipment:- Binocular Microscope J Lancaster and Son 1850s

All these items are from the Science Museum national collection by the way. It would be fascinating to try a few of these out - they did a similar exercise with the camera Harry Burton used when he did the official photographs of Tutankhamuns tomb in the 1920s. Special Instantograph Bellows...

Some of these cameras and lenses are works of art on their own - I bet you could get amazing pictures with them. Lens J Lancaster and Son Achromatic Landscape Lens J Lancaster and Son 1885 International Folding Bellows Stand Camera J Lancaster and Son 1888 Instantograph Camera J Lancaster...

Lens and Box J Lancaster and Son

Lancaster Watch Camera 1892

Instanagraph Camera J Lancaster 1889

I think this IS Guildford St - but from Farm St not Park St. Geach St is on the right by the lampost, and where the houses are indented opposite Geach St is where I lived as a kid (at 1/39). Closer to the camera on the left my gran lived at 2/27. And towards the top of the hill on the right my...

Hi Graham; I have sent you a private message - check the envelope link at the top right of the page:-

Hi Graham; Can you just post them on the forum please, then we can all see them. If not I'll send you my address by private mail and I can scan them for you and post them.