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Technical Help / Re: Scanner and scanning old slides
« on: Sunday 30 September 12 17:20 BST (UK)  »
Just to add to what Prue advises. If you look at the slide/negative obliquely against the light you will see a definite difference between the emulsion side and the celluloid backing. The former will have a pattern which replicates the image.

There's always a chance you could damage the image by using any wet process but sometimes you may find something which would look better damaged than grubby.

Whilst water is an option - water was used in processing the film in the first place - and you used to be able to buy special film cleaner - the first thing I would turn to is methylated spirits. It's quite a good cleaning agent and it drys quickly.

Having processed many films over the years, the main problem a photographer experiences is the film gathering dust whilst it drys. It's necessary to hang it up in a dust free room and the emulsion is most easily damaged (eg fingerprints) whilst it's wet. One trick I learned was to use meths. for the final rinse (1) because it dissipates most of the water use to wash the film and (2) the film drys within minutes.

Using meths. to clean the emulsion side should minimise any softening of the emulsion.

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The Common Room / Re: Quick q re 1910/20's electoral registers?
« on: Wednesday 26 September 12 22:44 BST (UK)  »
You should be able to view them at main libraries in the area you're interested in + in the appropriate record office/archives. I don't think there is any hard and fast rule so it may be worthwhile contacting the local elections office and asking them.

Did I hear that Ancestry was hoping to have them all on line within the next few months?

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Cheshire / Re: Warren-Wetnall-Buckley 1700's
« on: Wednesday 26 September 12 17:10 BST (UK)  »
Probably entirely irrelevant; but in case you're not aware, apart from "Warren Street" in Stockport a popular and prominent hostelry used to be the Warren Bulkeley pub (Corner of Warren Street and Bridge Street). Demolished and re-built as a Laura Ashley shop, the original facade was reconstructed on the side elevation. Unfortunately street view doesn't extend to you being able to see it on line.

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Technical Help / Re: 35mm Negative Scanner
« on: Tuesday 18 September 12 16:23 BST (UK)  »
I have a (now redundant and originally very expensive) Nikon scanner. It's redundan't 'cos it needs a SCSSI interface. 10+ years ago it was state of the art but nowadays you'll probably get just as good, if not better, results using a half decent flat bed scanner with a film attachment.

I'd avoid those £49.99 things you see in the weekend papers I'm told that they're pretty dire.

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Cheshire / Re: unkown wedding group
« on: Tuesday 18 September 12 16:16 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: selwynfroggitt on Saturday 15 September 12 17:36 BST (UK)
fathers of the bride and groom appear to be missing.

Could one or other/both of them have been taking the picture(s)? The grouping doesn't seem sufficiently formalised for it to have been taken by a professional wedding photographer.

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Cheshire / Re: Stockport - old photograph
« on: Friday 31 August 12 11:10 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Mariam82 on Thursday 30 August 12 22:23 BST (UK)
I have really enjoyed this thread.  I havent lived in Stockport for 20 years and only looked at the cheshire thread by chance.   I used to work at the 'Boots' which was in Reddish south and would have been on these photos 30 years ago.  I remember well the pub = houldsworth - waiting for a bus home to Heaton Moor.  How nice to remember as well as do research.
 Maria M

I think you'll find that Boots (possibly now gone) and the Houldsworth pub (big dirty yellow tiled building - still there) are technically in what is known as mid-Reddish. South Reddish is the area from the top of Lancashire Hill heading North past Willow Grove cemetery. North Reddish is the bit from the Gorton boundary, where the originally posted picture was taken, South to somewhere around the Fir Tree pub.

The 17 bus (originally tram) ran from Mersey Square as far as the Bulls Head (just off the picture to the left) from where you could change to the 33 which ran into the centre of Manchester past Belle Vue Zoo. A bus from the Houldsworth pub to Heaton Moor would have taken you down Broadstone Road, across the (by then filled in) Stockport branch of the Manchester & Ashton-under-Lyne canal, through Heaton Chapel to Heaton Moor.

That particular area was, and probably still, is home to the headquarters of that auspicious organisation the "National Federation of Master Window-cleaners".

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Technical Help / Re: shared email on 2 computers
« on: Monday 27 August 12 15:15 BST (UK)  »
..... Beaten to it!

All my emails remain on my ISP's server and turn up on my desktop, laptop and iPad. You'll probably find a setting somewhere which asks if you want to delete messages from the server once they've been downloaded.

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Technical Help / Re: shared email on 2 computers
« on: Monday 27 August 12 15:11 BST (UK)  »
Does your ISP provide webmail? That would be the simplest option especially if you only need to do it when you're away from home.

Assuming they do, you simply need to log onto your ISP's webmail site and you can access your emails, compose and send new ones via the internet rather than using an email application. If you do it that way, you don't even need to use your own computer. Anything which is connected to the internet will do - I've even done it on an iPod!

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The Common Room / Re: Outgoing passenger lists
« on: Sunday 26 August 12 13:59 BST (UK)  »
I, too, have learned something nanny jan, thanks.

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