I've added some scans taken from the slide collection of the late (and great) Harry Parker. As part of a project to provide some images for a PDMHS 'recruitment drive', Harry's three slide lecture sets have been scanned and many of the images will find their way onto AN, as time permits. They mostly cover the Peak and the Northern Pennines, with quite a few taken in the working spar mines around Nenthead etc. Some of the slides have suffered a bit over the 40 or 50 years since they were taken. The originals are now held by PDMHS. I'm happy to update descriptions with names as advised.

Hi Boy Engineer,

As you rightly say Harry deserves a lot of recognition for the quality of his work and the fact that the photos were taken, as PeteJ pointed out to me the other day, at a time when not that many explorers were doing so - Dickie Bird clearly accepted. He was also very generous with his photos and my Dad, amongst several others, were given many copies from Smallcleugh and elsewhere, I hope no one has been too miffed when I've put them on AN and if you haven't got copies/images of any of those and could use them please let me know, I've got about another 50 or so that I've digitised but have yet to use on AN.

Jim

I've just had a quick look at the Ballroom pic and think I can give you a few names and will do so later.


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L to R Bob Guthrie, Les Riley (I think), anon, Mike Luff (maybe), Richard MacPherson (I'll check with him when he's back from Wroclaw), anon, anon, anon (with legs and hair only) John MacPherson (bit bleached to be 100% sure).

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With a bizarre twist of fate Windows 10, without permission of any intelligent life form or me, decided to replace my wallpaper of a Kiftsgate rose at the bottom of the garden with one of Harry standing at the dig at Roughside, ...spooky!

Definitely not me. The first time I went to Nenthead was 1974.
Plus, I have never owned a pair of red toe wellies!
Nearly called them something else but not PC nowadays.......

Les

I think a comment made by the late H.M.P. is probably appropriate item to add to this thread.
Harry started his photographic career, working out of Hull.
In those days, it was a big fishing port.
He told me that 'if I have a photo of you, then the chances are you will always, return back to surface, since when I was at Hull we never had any photos of the crew members who were lost at sea'!
His slide lectures, were always, magnificent, and the only time I saw a hint of jealousy, occurred on one evening, where Robert & I, showed an unedited video, of the discovery of Bog Shaft, by members of W.C.M.R.G.
I am not sure how many more of these Noel & his mates made.

Just an update on names, Mike Luff say the two at the back are Nick Butcher and Pete Rogers and Richard agrees it him in the centre and the slightly haloed figure on the right is John MacPherson.

I never knew wearing red-soled wellies constituted a sartorial crime:o , that's AditNow for you, a font of knowledge.

Jim

I never knew wearing red-soled wellies constituted a sartorial crimeShocked , that's AditNow for you, a font of knowledge.

Down here in the Peak some mines are 'black tie' only :)
At one stage, Dunlop safety wellies had different coloured soles, to indicate whether they had protection plates (red, in case you found an Indian bed of nails to traverse). I think the 'tread more carefully' ones were green.
The only down side of the reinforced soles was in magnatite mines, where it could be difficult to lift your feet. But you could always tell where North was.