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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can any thing be done
« on: Saturday 17 January 09 16:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks everyone for the time and work put into the photo.
Definitely some improvement on the original.

                                                Thanks
                                                                John

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Can any thing be done
« on: Thursday 15 January 09 14:40 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I wonder if this photo is past saving. Its the only one I have of my Grandmother so any thing that  could be done to make her face clearer would be appreciated.
                                                               Thanks

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo Date Please
« on: Tuesday 13 January 09 15:49 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the dates Jim and Prue.  Sorry I don't know what the occasion was.  I have just been given the photo and was told that one of the men might be an Uncle.  The Uncle was born in 1902 so going by your dates he would be around 21 when the photo was taken.
                                John 
                                                                       

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Photo Date Please
« on: Monday 12 January 09 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder if anyone could have a go at dating this photo please.  It would help me in trying to work out which of my ancestors might be on it.
                                           Thanks

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The Common Room / Re: can anyone read shorthand?
« on: Sunday 30 November 08 10:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi - just packing my stuff for an overnight stay in Manchester - going to see Leonard Cohen tonight - Harlemswife - Harlem's not as keen as I am!!

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The Common Room / Re: can anyone read shorthand?
« on: Friday 28 November 08 17:06 GMT (UK)  »
Well, I was going to end this discussion because I have got my translation - but you are all having such a good time in here reminiscing that I won't do that yet.

I remember using a Gestetner to print score cards at the local cricket club in the 1950s - the players' kids (like me) were allowed to take them around the ground selling them at a couple of pence a time - but we were not allowed to ink the machine, and we all longed to do that - it had to be done by a trusty older lad called Raymond - wonder what happened to him.

And then, working in a library, producing catalogue cards on a Banda. I remember an older librarian saying 'we used to write the catalogue cards - then we got the Banda and we would type them and print them. Now with computers we still have to type them and print them.' I guess they don't do that any more either, letting everyone check them online.

Harlemswife

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The Common Room / Re: can anyone read shorthand?
« on: Thursday 27 November 08 21:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all

The letter is dated 10 years after my grandad retired, so he kept his skills. He was a committee clerk for the local authority, and took the minutes of council meetings. I guess there still are people who do that, so shorthand should not be dead quite yet.

I have his school reference which said he had studied 'on the commercial side,' gave his shorthand speed (age around 16) as 'nearly one hundred words a minute.' Is that fast? It also said that he had a rudimentary knowledge of the typewriter. I was intrigued that this was taught to boys in about 1905. I thought it would be the prerogative of girls - but I guess that came later.

He was called up for World War 1 and seems to have come home early in 1919. However, he was then sent back to France and not discharged until 1920, so I am guessing that his skills were required, perhaps in the clerical side of clearing things up in Europe.

I will certainly keep the letter , and its translation. It has made me think about a few things, even though it is superficially uninteresting.

Thanks again

Harlemswife

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The Common Room / Re: can anyone read shorthand?
« on: Thursday 27 November 08 18:20 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, Bumble B. I am disappointed it's not more interesting than that, but relieved it's nothing embarassing! This man, my grandfather, died  many years ago. Presumably my grandmother kept the thing after he died, but then she died. And then my mother must have kept it when she cleared the house. Then she died and I kept it - all of us perhaps believing it was something important, but not knowing what!!

I am thinking, though, that it's nice to keep something my grandfather handled and a memory of his skills, even if its content is mundane.

Thanks again

Harlemswife

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The Common Room / Re: can anyone read shorthand?
« on: Thursday 27 November 08 17:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all very much - I hope it's nothing awkward!

Harlemswife

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