Some Old Kodak Kodachrome Slides

[stowpirate]

Scanned from a load of slides I bought at a car boot sale for 50p - I have about 500 similar ones. I guess the photographs are from the 1970's or early 1980's. These ones are Kodak Kodachrome Slide Film and apparently taken in Palma, Majorca.

 

[stowpirate]

Somewhere in Scotland c1970? I suspect East Ham London now?

 

[stowpirate]

Possibly Scottish Wedding c1970 ?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Brilliant. Can we have more please?

 

[Pip]

Does anyone want some NEW Kodachrome slides?

 

[stowpirate]

Brilliant. Can we have more please?

I have hundreds to scan. The whole lot cost me 50p at a local car boot sale. I think they date from 1960's and 70's however some boxes have 1930 dates stamped on them. I have a name on some boxes of Mrs R. Emond, XX Halley Rd, Forest Gate London E7 - 31st October 1963.

Looks like it could be one amateur photographers life's work ?

 

[stowpirate]

Going by the tax disc on the wedding car these photographs date from late 1969 or 1970. Has anybody any idea who they are and where the photographs was taken? There are loads of normal looking formal wedding photos from the event I think I might scan at a later date. The scout leader and the groom are the same person.

 

[Pip]

The last one looks a bit like a street in Clapham, but could be anywhere. Where was the car boot sale?

 

[stowpirate]

The last one looks a bit like a street in Clapham, but could be anywhere. Where was the car boot sale?

The car boot sale was in Suffolk near Ipswich. I beleived the photographs are from Scotland. Location of Denmark Arms on the road junction might be a good start for finding the location?

 

[stowpirate]

The Denmark Arms, corner of Junction Street and Barking Road, East Ham

http://deadpubs.co.uk/EssexPubs/EastHam/denmark.shtml

So East Ham appears to be the location of some of the photos.

 

[Pip]

Got any of the church?

 

[stowpirate]

Got any of the church?

I will have a look tomorrow. I was trying to scan the more interesting photos and had ignored all the more formal wedding photos. I believe there was some photographs inside the church.

I scanned this one of a relative

Possibly taken in the same garden

Halley Street or Road ?

 

[Barking_Mad]

i love old photos. the greeat thing about them is they only become 'relevant' once they are old

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the gothic pile behind the scout parade is definitely newham town hall (former east ham town hall) on the junction of barking road / high street south. the one with the scoutmaster (?) saluting is at the side of the building, with east ham police station (old scruffy building) on High Street South.

Think the church (wedding photo) seems to be a church on the corner of Katherine Road / Halley Road, E7. I think the builders is now the Alnuur Cafe (466 Katherine Road which matches the number on the building as well as the shape) My (few years old) A-Z shows a church opposite, but Street View shows some new-ish flats. I can find references here to a church of ST. EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR, was opened in Halley Road, but can't find any pictures.

 

[stowpirate]

the gothic pile behind the scout parade is definitely newham town hall (former east ham town hall) on the junction of barking road / high street south. the one with the scoutmaster (?) saluting is at the side of the building, with east ham police station (old scruffy building) on High Street South.

Think the church (wedding photo) seems to be a church on the corner of Katherine Road / Halley Road, E7. I think the builders is now the Alnuur Cafe (466 Katherine Road which matches the number on the building as well as the shape) My (few years old) A-Z shows a church opposite, but Street View shows some new-ish flats. I can find references here to a church of ST. EDMUND, KING AND MARTYR, was opened in Halley Road, but can't find any pictures.

The church appears to have been demolished and a block of flats in it5s place. It could still be another location maybe in Suffolk?

 

[stowpirate]

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Can we have some of the earlier please. I was never mad on the 70s

 

[stowpirate]

Sixties Kersey and Lavenham in Suffolk?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Hmm. I am pretty convinced the church is on Katherine Road.

the builders shop / building (in the picture with the bridesmaids) shows a telephone number - "GRA 0244"

GRAngewood exchange was East Ham. (source - here) and this style of number (exchange name shortened to 3 letters then 4 numbers) was exclusive to the big cities (Edinburgh did have a 'Granton' exchange, but this does not look like Edinburgh.)

the row of shops behind the builders looks more like london than a suffolk village.

and i think the chances of another building, that shape, no. 466, on the corner of a road that starts 'HALLE...' are kinda remote.

This is the closest I can get to the same angle with Street View

Not conclusive but Lewington Builders Ltd was registered in the 60s at 466 Katherine Road.

the terraced housing in the photo behind the lady with the pink hat / blue coat / white handbag looks very London-ish : the wall between houses extending up to loft level and above is or was at one time (I believe) a London building requirement that's not so common elsewhere.

considering that my 2009 A-Z shows the church in situ i think it's reasonable for it still to have been there in what looks like the 60s.

just a thought - this is the kind of thing that local papers often like - how about contacting the newham recorder - they might be able to trace some of the people and places.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Where's your pics Pip?

 

[Pip]

Someone was being rather difficult, weren't they Minnie?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Who was doing that Pip. Tell me and I'll beat them to death

 

[Pip]

I never tell tales

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I never tell tales

Good, being a grass is not a good thing. You could PM me though

 

[Andrew Hertford]

These are great. Early Kodak slides sometimes had the date stamped onto the cardboard mounts. You used to send the film away and they'd come back a couple of weeks later. I've got some my dad took in 1959.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

He must be at least 8ft tall

Some lovely pics

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

He must be at least 8ft tall

Some lovely pics

The guy next to him doesn't look real. It looks like someone's just cut and pasted someone's head on to his body

 

[Pip]

The bloke next to him's about 4' tall more like.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The bloke next to him's about 4' tall more like.

Yeah, maybe so, but his head still looks too big for him

 

[story]

How marvellous!

Moar please.