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Managed to get a couple of photos of Saturn in between the storms on Thursday evening - at approx. 800M miles away it is at the limit of what my camera kit can resolve, but you can just make out the rings:-
Saturn is well placed for viewing at present high in the night sky - its also at its...
Sorry - I have checked all my photos - only one I can find with Masons on it is this one from 1950:_
I guess Granada did not exist then? However I will ask my wifes uncle as he lived in Sutton in 1966.
HI Vivienne - of course you can post it!
I'll check back through the original photos to see if I have a better view - this was took over the top of a fence with a "Daily Mail" lens....
Looks like the book I have been waiting for someone to publish for years is about to be published....
This is the ATV Showbook from Transdiffusion - a 248 page large format book looking at the history of ATV from 1955 - 1982. Cost is £25. You can order one here:-...
It would have been an ideal exhibit at the Black Country Museum - it was not far from the black country "border" and they are experts at dismantling and rebuilding items like this. But - someone in a suit with a clipboard with a margin on it decided they needed the extra car parking spaces......
Brilliant photos - if you do write a book post #115 photo #16 would be a good cover photo - depicting the hospital "frozen in time" with dilapidation all around it - super lighting!