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#4081 by astoness , Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:15 pm

thanks gra i have been in touch with david osam for months now as i did a bit to help him find a living rellie of phyllis nicklin who was able to supply david with a photo of phyllis..david is the one who found some 660 unseen nicklin photos hidden in cabinets at the university of birmingham where phyllis worked and he put the exhibition together..all the photos should be online sometime next april...if you go to this site there are 446 photos that have been available for some years now but many of us cant wait to see the new ones...i so admire this ladys work what a legacy she left us

http://epapers.bham.ac.uk/chrysalis.html

#4082 by Sheldonboy , Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:22 pm

Old Phylis must have been a snap happy girl, considering she must have done all this with a film camera.

#4083 by astoness , Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:30 pm

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #35724
Old Phylis must have been a snap happy girl, considering she must have done all this with a film camera.

they were all on glass plate gra....it took many hours hours to get them off those and digitalise them.

by the way that wernt me in that news article....i was not up town that early

#4084 by astwood , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:16 pm

Evening All had the 2 youngest grandchildren for most of the day
they ran me ragged im to slow on my feet these days

#4085 by Sheldonboy , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:18 pm

Good evening Mr Astwood, nice to hear that you had a good day and nice to see you have managed to survive.

#4086 by astoness , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:19 pm

evening astwood..glad you have enough strength to make a post tonight..

#4087 by astwood , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:21 pm

They wanted to feed trifle to my tropical fish god bless them [Silly Grin]

#4088 by Sheldonboy , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:30 pm

Quote: astwood wrote in post #35729
They wanted to feed trifle to my tropical fish god bless them

Maybe they thought they were Jellyfish

#4089 by astoness , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:35 pm

iriot SB

#4090 by Sheldonboy , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:39 pm

Come on Lyn don't DESERT me

#4091 by astwood , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:54 pm

Good Night All

#4092 by Sheldonboy , Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:55 pm

See you MR Astwood

#4093 by astoness , Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:14 pm

Quote: Sheldonboy wrote in post #35732
Come on Lyn don't DESERT me

i shall

#4094 by mikejee , Mon Dec 07, 2015 11:31 pm

Astwood

They wanted to feed trifle to your tropical fish god??

#4095 by mikejee , Mon Dec 07, 2015 11:35 pm

Lyn
I didn't realise that Phyllis used a plate camera. That makes her even more amazing

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