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ICLOK
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Now now!!! funny tho :lol:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

ttxela
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"derrickman" wrote:
I don't actually recall where I got it, it is on my bookshelf along with 'Northern Caves' and 'Caves of Derbyshire' from the late 70s, various books about Peak District lead mining ( all with paper dustcovers and monchrome jacket photos ), a copy of Dines I bought while I was at CSM, my copy of Hooper & Winiberg with annotations from Ron his-very-own-self, the two Trounson collections of photos of Cornish mining, a book I got last year called 'Painting a Mine with Light' or something like that ( about Wheal Jane ), various technical papers, 'Pipeline Rules of Thumb' ( a wonderful source of how-to stuff, some of it quite out-of-date and truly cringe-making ), the usual Bannister and Raymond / Uren and Price / Offshore Surveying Handbook stuff, and a lot more

next shelf is Tuning for Speed, various handbooks and restoration guides for motorcycles ( including Radco's wonderful read, although I confess i've never done anything it describes... ), a how-to on fitting a v8 into a Toyota LandCruiser ( never DID do that .. )

Yes, was quite a wrench to give it back to you 😉 I read it a few times since you lent it to me. On the lookout for my own copy now. I think it had the picture of Jug Holes being worked as well.

Dickie Bird
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Yes, the old cheeks coloured up at Mr P's remarks. Ta Mr P! I have to put on record that the reason for not buying drinks for his exemplary help was possibly due to his (then) employment as a Tax Inspector... well you've got to draw the line at that! His sylph-like figure (with the almost obligatory Park Drive or roll up) features regularly on my library of negatives. At least he was free from the disgusting outpourings of another "model" who often accompanied us, whose previous evening's lengthy cider sessions, topped off with large chinese take aways, proved especially unfortunate in workings with dodgy air quality.

'Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again' [Henri Cartier Bresson][i]