France 1986 – St Tropez

Following on from the previous post about the summer 1986 holiday to Port Grimaud (although this post will appear above it in Wordpress), when we went over to St Tropez there was a huge crowd of onlookers ogling at the beautiful people leaving a party on some vast yacht. I'm sure some of these people might be famous (there was a suggestion of a Monaco Princess, and the chap in the third picture appears to be signing an autograph) but I have no idea who there are. One presumes there was a gold & white theme, unless that happened to be the trend that summer. ...
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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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