Plate and film Cameras
Plate and film Cameras
Battersea Power Station 1955
Battersea Power Station 1955
Battersea Power Station 1955
Cars
Cars
Battersea Power Station 1955
3D Printing
3D Printing
3D Printing
Geological Museum 1975
Geological Museum 1975
Adrian's Memories
Little Bits and Pieces
A collection of items and oddities tha don't fit in elsewhere
A very strange millitary? mobile object seen near Windscale around 1960. Photos taken with a subminiature camera. Any ideas??
The bigest one-piece sink unit I have ever seen. And the cleanest, well it was in a Swedish camp site
What car has a front window that opens on a bicycle chain and has a bound and spoked steering wheel ?
One of my Dad's jazz band in the 20's, He is the shortest one
Brother Colin in a light bulb. The bulb was full of water so it acted like a lens
One of my favorite optical illusions, the blured middle seems to move
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Garden Gnome
Markus had this in his front garden many years ago. They went on holiday so I took it home and fitted it with red LEDs for eyes and a photocell for the coat button.
When a bright light shone on the gnome, like car head lights pulling into the drive at night then the eyes flashed back at you.
I made it work many times but he said he never saw it work
Driving over the frozen sea to Hailuoto, Finland at minus 40°C. We only got out of the car to take photos. In 1968 - No studded tyres in those days
The day the plane crashed at Gatwick. We drove past the crash site a mile from our house, 20 minutes before the crash on our way home from a party in London. Taken next morning on my Hassleblad 1000f with vintage 16" lens in home made mount from at least 400 metres. Early Jan morning and very poor light
Oulu on a really cold day in 1968
Copthorne flood of 2014. Phto by Gavin Hoey. Remember there is a 95 metre deep sump under the flood to stop this happening- see 'waterworks' in mast photographs
We were waiting several hours for a ferry in Turku. (You can see Turku Castle in the background). Just outside our car park a mobile crane arrived and prepared to lift a wooden building. They lifted the chimney stack out then fitted chains and spreader bars. The lift started but when it was about a metre off the ground the spreader bars buckled and it all crashed back to earth.
The man got into his crane and drove off leaving it all as it was
The chimney being lifted off
In 2000 Raija was invited to a reception in the gantry across the top of Tower Bridge by JRI, makers of artificial hip joints. Superb food and delightful company together wonderful evening views up and down the Thames.
I went along too and was amazed by the ice carving of a female torso that had an artificial hip joint frozen into the ice before it was carved.
A chap in the village - Hans, built the Coronation Arches
in The Mall. He only had 24 hours to erect all four.
View from the BT tower in around 2000. I was invited to an evening meal there when Markus worked for BT
The Prince Albert, our local pub organised a bungee jump day to celebrate the millennium