“Dai in my arms”

That's my dad, aged 21. We're guessing that Dai might have been a Welsh Corgi. EDIT: Clarification from my dad's sister - a Pembroke Corgi! (For some reason this post didn't transfer from blogspot, so I've had to add it manually. The comments obviously didn't carry over either, so I've added them as well) Sue Said: Dai is a Pembroke Corgi to be precise. This is from when Bernard and Katie lived at Hillcrest in Cottingham. The first house they lived at in Cottingham....
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“Debris from party in my room”

“Debris from party in my room”

I've started out on the mammoth project of scanning my dad's photos. I've begun right at the beginning with film A001 from Spring 1954, when he was at Imperial College in London. This one is captioned "debris from party in my room". From what I can see, that is two bottles of Merrydown cider (1952 vintage no less!), a bottle of dry sherry (students were so much more refined in those days) and two unidentified bottles of god only knows what - given that he was a chemistry student, I dread to think what might have been in them. We asked him about stills once, and he rattled off a comprehensive list of what we'd need - a good 50+ years after being a student. There is also a film canister and what appears to be a brand new manual for a Kodak Retina camera. I might have to scan this one in higher resolution to see some of the book titles. (For...
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