Quick as a Link!
October 14th 2009 08:12
While avoiding working on things on the computer I was supposed to be doing, and spending too much time on things I wasn't, I received a couple of emails.
One was from a guy in Canada who is the historian for a magazine called Chess Scotland. He'd been looking for something completely different and found a photo of my father and some dozen or more other chess players at a tournament in Australia. I'd posted the photo on my family blog, and then put a second post up after having tried to decipher my father's writing on the back of the photo, and list the people who were there.
Alan McGowan, the historian, managed to recognise several of the players and improve the listing considerably. (His Scottish chess history archive is here, by the way.)
And then later on I discovered a host of photos of a place I'd worked at in England: the National Children's Home in Harpenden. I was only there for just over a year, I think, but I have fond memories of the place, (and some not so fond!). I made some comments on one of the photos, and quick as winking someone called Philip wrote back with more information.
Most of the photos, unfortunately, were taken before my time, so I really recognised no
one. The only person I thought I recognised was the man who was in charge when I was there, a Mr Burn (possibly Burns). He appears in a photo with a couple of Methodist ministers; the photo was taken a year or so before I arrived.
The place is still there: all the wonderful big double-storey houses still standing and the great green oval in the middle. It's now owned by Youth with a Mission, and is used as their headquarters. The photo on the right is from the flickr.com collection, and is an aerial view of the place - pretty much as it was when I was there. The photo credit is shown only as 'Theirhistory', though I suspect it's the person who wrote to me.
And finally to something else altogether: Orlando vacations. I've just written on my other blog about Myrtle Beach, a place I'd never heard of until tonight. I can't say the same for Orlando, which has been familiar to me for a long time, possibly because of its association with Disneyland. My nephew wrote on Facebook the other night that he'd just booked for his family to go to Disneyland - several months down the track. Let's hope the recession has pulled its head in by then, otherwise he'll have no spending money for when he gets there!
One was from a guy in Canada who is the historian for a magazine called Chess Scotland. He'd been looking for something completely different and found a photo of my father and some dozen or more other chess players at a tournament in Australia. I'd posted the photo on my family blog, and then put a second post up after having tried to decipher my father's writing on the back of the photo, and list the people who were there.
Alan McGowan, the historian, managed to recognise several of the players and improve the listing considerably. (His Scottish chess history archive is here, by the way.)
And then later on I discovered a host of photos of a place I'd worked at in England: the National Children's Home in Harpenden. I was only there for just over a year, I think, but I have fond memories of the place, (and some not so fond!). I made some comments on one of the photos, and quick as winking someone called Philip wrote back with more information.
Most of the photos, unfortunately, were taken before my time, so I really recognised no
The place is still there: all the wonderful big double-storey houses still standing and the great green oval in the middle. It's now owned by Youth with a Mission, and is used as their headquarters. The photo on the right is from the flickr.com collection, and is an aerial view of the place - pretty much as it was when I was there. The photo credit is shown only as 'Theirhistory', though I suspect it's the person who wrote to me.
And finally to something else altogether: Orlando vacations. I've just written on my other blog about Myrtle Beach, a place I'd never heard of until tonight. I can't say the same for Orlando, which has been familiar to me for a long time, possibly because of its association with Disneyland. My nephew wrote on Facebook the other night that he'd just booked for his family to go to Disneyland - several months down the track. Let's hope the recession has pulled its head in by then, otherwise he'll have no spending money for when he gets there!
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