Fowey, August 1955
Lostwithiel Street, FoweyFowey Harbour from Coastguard, at nightTwo shots from the family holiday in Fowey in August 1955...
Hutton-le-Hole
From Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire - August 1955, but looks almost timeless....
Petrolhead
Peter Collins in a Formula 1 Maserati 250F. Crystal Palace 30/05/1955
Colin Chapman in a Lotus XI. Goodwood 24/09/1955
A couple of shots from the 1955 motorsport summer.
The amount of detail my dad recorded on some of these shots is great - written on the back of the prints of these two photos is the following:
1) Formula 1 Maserati 250F (2.5 litre), disc brakes, alloy wheels. Owen Racing Organisation car, driven by Peter Collins
2) Lotus Mk IX Climax, 1097cc. Six Mile Stable, driven by Colin Chapman. Almost certainly XPE8, the works car at Le Mans 1955. Cleaned up on the races that day....
Scarborough, 1955
Scarborough harbour from the early part of 1955....
ICDS – Maidstone 1955
Similarly to the production that the Imperial College Drama Society put on in Cheltenham in 1954, they did the same in Maidstone in 1955.Mr & Mrs FletcherLes and Ursula on stageI think that the first shot is of the landlord & landlady in the pub that they adopted during their stay - there are several photos that appear to be in the pub.I suspect that my father wasn't acting in this particular play, as this was taken from above the stage. I don't know what play they were doing - surprisingly enough his records don't say.I suspect the reason I never really became interested in the theatre (drawing a discrete veil over my appearance as a Munchkin) is that I was subjected to too much Shakespeare as a small child. My parents were (and my mother still is) long-standing active members of the Masque Theatre amateur group in Northampton, and they were always involved in the annual open-air productions. Being...
Rowing, 1955
Head of the River Race, 4th VIII throwing the boat.Imperial College 3rd VIII at Walton Regatta, my father 2nd from right in the front rowAlong with the Drama Society, my father also rowed for Imperial College, competing in the Head of the River race two or three times. I'm not quite sure how he managed to combine both of these activities along with studying for his degree, but he seemed to manage it!Interestingly enough, three of his interests were photography, cycling and rowing - I do the first two and have done the third. Something went wrong though, as I've never been interested in the theatre....