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Portscatho Aug71

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I have scanned a series of snaps from 1971-2 (needless to say, mostly of Marie) with no artistic intent but I hope they are interesting as a record of the time.

These first 4 are of a very unsophisticated camping holiday with friends at Portscatho in Cornwall - the second evening having used up all the food Marie & Sally are off to the pub (next photo)…

Note: also self-portrait in the grass!

For car enthusiasts, that's a Series-1 medium wheel-base Landrover which I learned to drive on. It was brilliantly adaptable - you could just lift the doors off for more ventilation (or take off the top halves), fold the windscreen flat and remove the canvass roof and framework in 5 minutes. Helpfully it had no synchromesh on second gear so you had to learn to double de-clutch - this has proved useful recently since my old Boxter has lost sync. on 2nd too and it's more expensive to fix than the car is worth...

Tech note: original slide was Agfa CT18 which produced brilliant luminous blues but had limited red tones (tending to go crimson) and even more limited latitude.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Gerrans (show map)

Taken on: July 1, 1971

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