Monday 4 July 2016

Guildford photos

Let's see if you can see these: Over 200 photos of Guildford, and I think I can be spotted in about one of them. See if you can (it might take you a week or so). Go to the Guildford School of Art section by clicking on the 2nd picture of the woman with the typewriter (there are two identical, side by side),  but there are some very good photos of other stuff too.

www.walmsleyblackandwhite.com

22 comments:

  1. Yes, some good photographs there. As I said in my comment on the previous post this morning, the one you missed just now, I would need your help to find you. The girl on the typewriter is struggling with one finger typing.

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  2. Good photography indeed Tom, but as I don't know what you actually look like there is not a lot of point in getting out my magnifying glass is there?

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    1. Not really - even I have a hard job recognising myself.

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  3. The old-style security guards were sent in, but defected to our side within a few days!

    On the first day, one of them accidentally locked himself in the phone booth, leaving the other three on the outside. I pretended to squirt gas through the keyhole using a cigarette lighter, and everyone laughed.

    The next day, the headline in a national newspaper said 'GAS ATTACK ON GUARDS BY SIT-IN STUDENTS'.

    This was a lesson in how newspapers function.

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  4. I liked the way the security guards defected and joined the students. The looked like Arthur Daley and the Kray Brothers.
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    1. Exactly - they were nice blokes, once we had stopped them from kicking us in our sleeping bags as they patrolled the corridors.

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    2. You never went back to my comment.

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  5. Are you the long legged fellow in pale trousers wearing a denim jacket by any chance ?

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  6. # 90939. You didn't change much between 1968 and 1972.

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    1. You should see me now - post 1990.

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    2. I've just checked, and by God, you're right. I would never have spotted them! There are 3 of me on the far right, sitting close to that far-right bastard, Lord Goldsmith.

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    3. No, the late Sir James Goldsmith. He was commissioned to do a report on us...

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    4. No, that wasn't Goldsmith - it was a SU lawyer and Jack Straw is in there somewhere, I am told.

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  7. Oh god overfaced! Nurse the screens!

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  8. I've not got a clue what you looked like then or now, but can say that these black and white photographs definitely do tell a story from long ago time. A time that might just have impacted some history.

    The scenes depicted remind me of scenes from the George Gently detective tv shows with Martin Shaw. This would have been about the time I first moved to New York.

    Sometimes seems like yesterday, but truly was quite a few yesterdays ago.

    Best wishes.

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    1. I remember the smells of that time most vividly. A load of people snoring in sleeping bags in a corridor having got back from the pub is an aroma that - once smelt - is never forgotten.

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    2. Yes, all our senses feed our memories.

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