David, I disagree with you about the b&w pics looking out of place, in fact I think they would look right at home here. Consider all the pics Ian Saxon has been posting

Please reconsider your opinion, and I am sure a lot of people here would love to see them, I know I would.

Regards Bill in sunny but cold Dromana.

From:tramsdownunder@... [mailto:tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of espee8800
Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2020 6:52 PM
To: tramsdownunder
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] TMSV # 35

Noel Reed had a very extensive collection of colour images, his engineering job I guess gave him a bit more in the pocket for such luxuries. I, on the other hand, could not afford colour. I became very adept at reloading film canisters from 30m rolls of black & white film usually Tri-X which I home processed via Ilford's Microphen developer; a first class chemical.

Noel never seemed to have a problem with sharing images but he had a distinct hatred of the post office as he "lost" a couple of boxes of slides in the black hoile of lost mail. I managed to scan a few hundred of his slides but it was always hand delivered and picked up. Those that I scanned turn up on TDU now and again.

My black & whites of Melbourne in the late 1960s and early 1970s have yet to see the light of day on TDU and with all this colour stuff would look right out of place. Maybe some of my late 1980s stuff might appear one day, in those days I spent many Fridays afternoons wandering the streets of Melbourne not just after W's but also getting Z1's on say Burwood and West Coburg and the like. Quite a few Saturday mornings would see me walking the tram route somewhere getting the coverage, road traffic was usually sparse and the cars that were out there were small unlike the pregnant station wagons seen today. I often ran into J. Bounds on these expeditions.

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 06:50, pn1@...> wrote:

In those days, and we are talking of more than 50 years ago, there were few enthusiasts taking colour pictures (slides or prints) of everyday Melbourne tram workings. It must be remembered photography was very expensive in “real” terms. There were also few opportunities for enthusiasts to “share” their work. No internet in the mid to late 1960s! And some jealously guarded their photographs; I recall one well known enthusiast (now deceased) speaking of the photographs he had – but always saying they were “not available” for viewing! Some of the keen young men of the era jokingly commented about the various collections that were kept “under people’s beds”. At the same time, there were one or two unscrupulous so called enthusiasts who “borrowed” tram (and other transport) photos and never returned them. There was a genuine fear of such people fear among some enthusiasts and this could be another reason why many photographs never saw the light of day.

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cheers and best wishes,
David in Avenel.au
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