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Phyllis Nicklin’s unknown images

oldMohawk

oldMohawk

gone but not forgotten
I have often enjoyed looking at the image below which has been on the forum since 2011 and is in several threads. It is a scan from a newspaper so is not good quality. I never knew (maybe others did :)) that it was taken by Phyllis Nicklin in 1934. It can be seen buried in a very large photo collection see links underneath this copy.
Colmore_Row_1930s~0.jpg

The original, and comment on how it was obtained can be seen in this link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsimages/42074544411/in/photostream/
and another photo she took on the same day seen in the links below
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geoffsimages/41554823951/in/photostream/
From Flickr
a box of rolled up 35mm films, nobody wanted them and they gathered dust until...yes "dump them" indeed a lot of them are unidentified blurry holiday pictures and are of no use but among them are some gems, Phyllis seemed to use the last few frames around Birmingham before handing the film over to 'Camera House' (Cannon Street) for processing. The real problem I have is that the films have coiled for 83 years, they are like bed springs and the only way of scanning them is the rather brutal method of using low-tack tape and taping them down to the scanner.
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There are other photos she took in 1935. I have not copied the pics to here because they are in someone's photo collection and can be seen there.
 
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In 1934 Phyllis would be a young woman aged 25. This was the most likely the beginning of her interest in taking photographs of the city and it features. I suspect she had taken a few family photos beforehand which may have given her the interest with photography and recording what she saw as interesting and important. Certainly those two criteria have been well appreciated on BHF.
 
Another comment ....
As stated in the quote from Flickr in post #13, the old film had been rolled up for 83 years since 1935 so presumably uncoiled for scanning this year 2018.

The Birmingham Mail must have obtained the Colmore Row pic from another source and published it in their newspaper sometime between 1997 and 2000.

It was among a lot of newspaper pics scanned and uploaded to the forum starting 2009 see https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/old-evening-mail-pics.21690/

Unfortunately they were all lost in the forum's 'hack disaster' in 2011 so had to be recovered and reposted.
A pdf collection for a quick look at all of them is here https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/for...d-evening-mail-pics.21690/page-16#post-422536
 
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