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20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Ten

20th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 3088 Comments

In this instalment of Mystery Album, some of our wealthy mystery family are off for a walk in the Swaledale countryside. While the ladies are elsewhere doing lady things, stout shoes (rather than walking boots) [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Eight

6th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 2673 Comments

There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Seven

30th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 2617 Comments

In part four of Mystery Album, I speculated that the above photograph (taken by our mystery family aboard the wherry Palace) was of a Norfolk Broads maltings. Judging by the order of the photos, it [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Five

16th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 2580 Comments

Last time, our well-travelled Mystery Album photographers took us to South Walsham on a Norfolk Broads wherry holiday. We were left tied up at the present day mooring of Lord Fairford. Since then, the ladies [more…]

20th Century

Mystery Album, Part Four

9th October 2021 Always Worth Saying 3009 Comments

Having exhausted the train photographs to the middle of our mystery album, with care we shall turn its century-old leaves to the front. Those locomotive photos were from 1925, therefore the next set of reproductions [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Two

25th September 2021 Always Worth Saying 2732 Comments

A mystery photo album has fallen into my hands. One that has raised many questions and set a difficult puzzle. No doubt Puffins can help me solve the enigma. But for the moment, let’s allow [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part One

18th September 2021 Always Worth Saying 2524 Comments

A mystery album has fallen into my possession presenting a number of fascinating puzzles and thus far unanswered questions. Featuring a family, most certainly of wealth and importance, no captions are written beneath or on [more…]

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It’s a SNAP! – Part Two

17th November 2020 Grimy Miner 3915 Comments

In Part One of this saga I talked about how I got hooked on photography and how the camera collecting bug bit me. In this part I will talk about digital photography and how this [more…]

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Adventures in Photography; Scenery, Landscape and “Views”

23rd March 2020 Colin Cross 6961 Comments

In this second article about photography I wanted to talk about how I take “scenery” photographs, many of which often require setting up and/or travelling specifically to a place to take pictures and others which [more…]

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