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Armed Forces / Re: British Navy 1791 - 1833
« on: Monday 07 February 22 10:39 GMT (UK)  »
You can track the travails of various Royal Navy ship, but may mean a visit to the National Archives at Kew, and for some that might not be possible. ADM is the prefix to ships and general Admiralty records

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Packets of old negatives
« on: Wednesday 08 May 19 16:21 BST (UK)  »
I bought a cheapish scanner for colour slides and 35mm negatives, but I have a shed load of black & white negatives which wouldn't go into the scanner. An old flatbed scanner had some facility to scan these different size negatives. In the end I went to Jessops and had over 250 scanned and put onto a CD, which I can access on my desktop. Bit expensive, but they did a good job and although i have prints of some of them, there was quite a lot I hadn't seen before.

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Technical Help / Re: Scanning old negatives - 120 etc
« on: Friday 21 September 18 18:39 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for all your replies so far, I'll have a look at your suggestions. Since my first message I have managed to get some fairly good scans and have transferred to sd card to edit on my W10. But it's slow, like plaiting fog too. I will look at the chances of adding my old scanner to W10.

Thanks
Anne

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Technical Help / Scanning old negatives - 120 etc
« on: Friday 21 September 18 15:45 BST (UK)  »
I expect this question has been asked before, but here goes.

I bought a box sized scanner to cope with the volume of colour slides and 35mm negatives that i have inherited from my family. I haven't got a flat bed scanner that will run on my Windows 10 desktop, got an elderly one that runs on my elderly XP laptop. That scanner will notionally scan my 120 & 220 Black & White negatives, but the programme is frankly CR*P and i cannot get a decent image from it.

Any suggestions of what i should do, I am thinking of ditching the laptop anyway, only kept it for this sort of operation.....but it drives me up the wall, I've got used to W10 and XP isn't supported.

Thanks

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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Parkfield, Windmill Road, Minchinhampton, Stroud
« on: Tuesday 24 July 18 10:09 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ValJJJ on Friday 15 June 18 14:49 BST (UK)
Ann thanks for that tip - if it is a Facebook group I won't be able to access it though as I have the wrong type of account (sigh - long story).  Will look now.

Hi Val

Sorry for delay, this is the link to the Minch memories Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/415930088520742/

Anne

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The Common Room / Re: Find my Past have changed their home page - ughhhhh
« on: Friday 15 June 18 15:02 BST (UK)  »
Thanks

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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Parkfield, Windmill Road, Minchinhampton, Stroud
« on: Friday 15 June 18 14:46 BST (UK)  »
If you are on FaceBook, there's a Minchinhampton Memories page, there has been some discussion about Windmill Road a while age.

Anne

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The Common Room / Find my Past have changed their home page - ughhhhh
« on: Friday 15 June 18 14:38 BST (UK)  »
Has anyone issues with the new entry page for FindmyPast? It says it's my "Dashboard", what in heavens is that? Dreadful, can I get rid?

Anne

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Somerset / Re: Admiralty Shipyard in Bath
« on: Saturday 12 May 18 18:57 BST (UK)  »
Just before WW2 was declared a large body of Admiralty workers were moved into what were (I think) Blocks of buildings originally intended for WW1 as hospitals. My father moved from Devonport Dockyard in 1939 to work in Bath in the construction and design of ships etc during the conflict. The offices were by the end of the war spread over three site at Ensleigh, Foxhill and Warminster Road. All are gone now with the now MoD working on a site on the edge of Bristol. Huge employer for the city in those days. I worked there, as did an uncle, cousins and sister.

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