"Road Relay Spectators (Wal, Dug, Norman & Sheila)
March 1955 - watching the Hyde Park Road Relays, first held in 1949 and still going....
"Judy, prison scene from Antigone"
March 1955.
Not necessarily the best quality (some of the negatives are a bit scratched), but a nice shot from the IC Drama Society's production of Antigone....
"Dick and Robinson"
At something called the "Luds Party", October/December 1954 - perhaps London University Drama Society?
Nice pants!...
"Wal, Keith and Trevor sailing"
July 1954 - The Imperial College Drama Society put on "The Dumb Wife of Cheapside" at the Civic Playhouse in Cheltenham (24-31 July), so there are three films of the show and also the cast spending some spare time in the area....
"Dick Dyball and Ken Ansell in the Lab"
May/June 1954.
A proper 1950's chemistry lab - white coats, glass jars, tubes, and the tutor sat at his desk reading a book. All that's missing is bubbling jar of something toxic. Note complete absence of safety features....
“Snow in Prince Consort Road”
Still on film A001, early 1954.
The sign on the gate says "No parking between lamp posts"......
“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.
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