I have recently been left a large collection of original aircraft photos in a will. They are a mixture of colour prints and slides, numbering several thousand, and dating from about 1980-ish to last year; mostly UK, but some in the US and probablyaround 70% civil to 30% military at a guess.
I simply do not have room for them, so I am offering them free to anyone who is prepared to come to High Wycombe this Friday between 10:00 and 16:00 and collect them. If there are no takers, the whole lot will be dumped.
By: Steve Bond - 28th March 2011 at 09:58
Thanks for all the replies; the collection is now safely removed to its new home.
By: mike currill - 25th March 2011 at 11:35
Brilliant, at least they are not going to be dumped. Would that I had been in a position to have taken them on myself but unfortunately work got in the way of life (as usual)
By: AUSTIN BROWN - 25th March 2011 at 07:15
PHOTO COLLECTION: GOOD NEWS:
Hi Steve,
Just a quick word to say that I am pleased that your willed collection has found a good home.
In addition to my half million slides, I look after The John Stroud Collection, some of the Steve Piercey Collection, and that of Gordon Wansborough-White, who was Marketing Director of the Bristol Aeroplane Company during the post war period of the development of the Brabazon through to the Britannia.
It is not difficult maintaining them, it just all takes up so much space. I can appreciate your dilemma.
Aussie.
By: duxfordhawk - 23rd March 2011 at 15:10
Thats great news Steve.
By: Steve Bond - 23rd March 2011 at 13:24
Gentlemen, many thanks for all your replies. I have found someone who is prepared to collect them on Friday, so the collection is safe.
By: AUSTIN BROWN - 23rd March 2011 at 10:13
Hi Steve!
Just received your message. I run the Aviation Picture Library and would be interested in collecting them and absorbing the photographs into the Library under your friend’s name. so as to keep his name alive. I’d also be happy to pay you 50% of any fees received for usage.
I could arrange to collect them on Friday via a friend. Can you give me some idea of the volume please? Would it go into a Citroen Picasso?
Please let me know soonest and then I can make the necessary arrangements.
My contact e-mail is [email]avpix01@gmail.com[/email]
Kindest Regards,
Austin.
Austin John Brown.
www.aviationpictures.com
By: scotavia - 23rd March 2011 at 09:48
Idea for someone who lives down South,
collect the pictures/slides from Steve, leave in vehicle overnight, drive to shoreham aerojumble on Saturday, sell items to clear, subtract costs and donate profits to charity of choice.
By: WB981 - 22nd March 2011 at 21:08
Steve
Are there any photos of gliders.
By: keithnewsome - 22nd March 2011 at 20:01
Steve. Where does the situation stand at the moment ??? Would like to save them if no other offer has been made./
Keith.
By: XF828 - 22nd March 2011 at 16:52
PM sent
By: Phantom Phil - 22nd March 2011 at 15:20
Where are you at in the UK?
PM me if you are anywhere in the North…
By: Steve Bond - 22nd March 2011 at 14:27
Thanks for the thought, but the trouble is I am up against a very tight timescale to clear what is now an empty house, and the end of this week really is the last chance, after that the house clearers must come in.
By: duxfordhawk - 22nd March 2011 at 14:24
Don’t dump them surely maybe if nobody here wants them a small museum might.
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