Old Negatives

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So felt I had achieved something in a saddo way!

That's how I feel when I get a picture that's been posted after hunting for hours

































until someone straight into the thread and gets it within minutes

 

[miss minnie]

Double/triple posting is due to the occasional hiccup on the server unfortunately.

While googling that image I came across this one:

 

[miss minnie]

Old Ford’s Hospital Interior

THE interior of the court is also good. The English note is once more struck in the old garden beyond with its flags and lupins, and Christ Church spire in the background.

Lots of pics of streets long since demolished here

 

[mick2007]

I kept on trying to reply earlier on but my posts just didn't seem to appear for some strange reason?

You have no idea how exciting I found all that!...h'mm.

No I had been trying for ages to locate those photographs. One of things I was trying to say was they should all be the same place. In the end that turned out to be correct.

I tried everything I could with old Chadwick Knight and his Commercial Hotel, but I couldn't locate anything.

Now much to my annoyance a few others got a way from under my nose this morning which is a shame.

Though I do have a copy of one of them.

My guess is this could be the wrong way around..right I just want to see if I can post this before I type anymore..

 

[miss minnie]

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mick is apparently the last poster on this thread and yet I can't see anything

*testing*

 

[miss minnie]

Mick is apparently the last poster on this thread and yet I can't see anything

*testing*

You've gone blind!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You've gone blind!

My post is the last post but it was saying Mick was the last person to post so I was expecting a Mick post to be here but it's not. This happened before didn't it

 

[mick2007]

All my posts don't show unless they are a few words like this..I've been trying to reply with info all day.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

All my posts don't show unless they are a few words like this..I've been trying to reply with info all day.

This one is showing as you being the last poster (obviously not now though 'cos I've posted!)

 

[mick2007]

Super thanks everyone by the way..I just had to watch!..every time I posted anything it didn't show..just like before.

 

[cybertect]

Anyhow, the next question is... do you have any more of these or was it just those three?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

It took centuries to build a medieval cathedral, generations of the same family would continue to work on a single cathedral, only moving if the funds to pay them ran out.

It still takes centuries to build some cathedrals. It was/is the stonemasons that apply the finishing touches who travelled from city to city for work. I know someone working on the Guadi cathedral in Barcelona. He has a collection of traditional tools to create new stone work in an authentic style. Gaudi's vision was based on the technology of his day. Not sure, but I think they're still 50 years, or so from completing it.

I'm currently in Melilla. This place is a bit of a gem for architecture fans. Lots of modernist stuff mixed up with traditional Muslim, Jewish and colonial Spain. A bit rough around the edges due to sea winds and sun, but some fantastic buildings behind the pealing paint.

 

[Crispy]

Sorry mick - our anti-spam filter (that is automatically applied to newbies) kept holding your posts for moderation (it was the heavy use of images). I've approved it now

Stanley - They're building Sagrada Familia much much quicker than they could 100 years ago. These days, they can get computers to do a lot of the stone carving. Gaudi was using lots of mathematical surfaces in his later work, so it's very easy for computers to model and manufacture.

 

[cybertect]

Ah - I see this post now!

Now much to my annoyance a few others got a way from under my nose this morning which is a shame.

Though I do have a copy of one of them.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2u5cf15.jpg

My guess is this could be the wrong way around..right I just want to see if I can post this before I type anymore..

Looks like another one from Coventry: Ford's Hospital on Greyfriars Lane

http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/nowandthen/fords-hosp.php

and yes, I think it is flipped.

e2a:

The forum is acting very strange today.

Minnie's post identifying Ford's was most definitely not there when I posted this.

 

[cybertect]

BTW, mick, I think you have some very early photos of Coventry here.

This engraving, which is apparently dated 1829, has buildings on both sides of Ford's

http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk/warwickshire.htm

but the lower one is gone in every other 19th century photo I've found of it so far online.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Double/triple posting is due to the occasional hiccup on the server unfortunately.

Lots of pics of streets long since demolished here

I kept on trying to reply earlier on but my posts just didn't seem to appear for some strange reason?

You have no idea how exciting I found all that!...h'mm.

No I had been trying for ages to locate those photographs. One of things I was trying to say was they should all be the same place. In the end that turned out to be correct.

I tried everything I could with old Chadwick Knight and his Commercial Hotel, but I couldn't locate anything.

Now much to my annoyance a few others got a way from under my nose this morning which is a shame.

Though I do have a copy of one of them.

My guess is this could be the wrong way around..right I just want to see if I can post this before I type anymore..

WTF: None of these posts were here last night. I've read Crispy's epxlanation as to why Mick's weren't appearing, but Miss Minnie's pictures weren't there last night either

 

[miss minnie]

WTF: None of these posts were here last night. I've read Crispy's epxlanation as to why Mick's weren't appearing, but Miss Minnie's pictures weren't there last night either

I didn't notice that Mick's posts were being held in a moderation queue, I'm guessing that my replies to his 'invisible' posts were also invisible until released by Crispy? There were also some server problems (slow responses) leading to double posts (happened to me on another thread) which confused things even more.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I didn't notice that Mick's posts were being held in a moderation queue, I'm guessing that my replies to his 'invisible' posts were also invisible until released by Crispy? There were also some server problems (slow responses) leading to double posts (happened to me on another thread) which confused things even more.

And you thought I was going blind and I thought you were seeing things!

Crispy needs a spanking for confusing us all

 

[mick2007]

With reference to cybertect..yeah there are a few more. So here are a couple more. I can only presume again from the architecture that it's Coventry again.

It would appear that both of them are some kind of school or something?

I wasn't far off identifying the original 'Chadwick Knight' photo looking back. I did indeed check out one of the photo's with the side view of the place. At the time though I was struggling to think Coventry was such an Ye Olde kind of place.

Again these are not my scans.

 

[mick2007]

Mr/Ms Moderator,

I've just posted a couple more photo's from what I think is Coventry again and my post has not appeared again!

edit :

With reference to cybertect..yeah there are a few more. So here are a couple more. I can only presume again from the architecture that it's Coventry again.

It would appear that both of them are some kind of school or something?

I wasn't far off identifying the original 'Chadwick Knight' photo looking back. I did indeed check out one of the photo's with the side view of the place. At the time though I was struggling to think Coventry was such an Ye Olde kind of place.

Again these are not my scans.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bluecoat Girls School

Can't be arsed with the other one. Time for bed

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Bablake Boys School

History

http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/tour/hill-st.php

Well at least they were nice and easy

 

[mick2007]

Good grief!

OK This one has left me a bit blank. I'm not 100% this is in Coventry...but if it is, it would be a good link to the others which are just photographs of peoples houses which look set in the countryside. Though I would like to think it's the same part of the country if nothing else.

edit: It could possibly be Rugby School just down the road.

 

[miss minnie]

Good grief!

OK This one has left me a bit blank. I'm not 100% this is in Coventry...but if it is, it would be a good link to the others which are just photographs of peoples houses which look set in the countryside. Though I would like to think it's the same part of the country if nothing else.

edit: It could possibly be Rugby School just down the road.

 

[mick2007]

No way! I've been searching around that poncy public school for ages now trying to get the right angle..

This is great because if the above is well Coventry I guess it means the other must be also...though I doubt you'll ever get these type of shots in a month of Sundays unless you know the area.

 

[cybertect]

mrc c said 'That's King Henry VIII school' straight away, but you'd got there about two minutes before

 

[Hocus Eye.]

It is worth checking out Wikipedia for the King Henry VIII school at Coventry. There is a photo of how it is today, not very different from the lower and smaller picture in post 85 above except that there is a high fence along the road side.

The black and white original looks as if it has been scanned the wrong way around.

 

[mick2007]

Here's another that I presume was taken at the same time as the other, above. I didn't manage to buy this one which is a pain. It's still a clue though.

edit: This must be different because there is only one arch in the bridge. Yeah it would seem all of the scans are the wrong way around!..I'm hoping to get my scanner on the job soon.

 

[cybertect]

Mick, I think you've got some photographs of historical significance for Coventry here.

http://www.historiccoventry.co.uk/nowandthen/nowandthenbroadgate2.php

This must be amongst the earliest photographs showing Broadgate, if not Coventry itself. It was taken around 1860 by Joseph Wingrave (right) - only around a decade or two after the invention of the camera. Wingrave owned a chemist shop in High Street, and was responsible for virtually all of the oldest photos of Victorian Coventry

I think it's entirely possible your photos were taken in the 1860s or even the 1850s.

If I were you, I'd be getting in touch with the History Centre at the Herbert Museum.