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Births
1859 – Billy The Kid, American outlaw
1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive – President of the Packard Motor Car Company
1887 – Boris Karloff, British actor
1888 – Harpo Marx, American comedian
1954 – Ross Brawn, English motorsport engineer and F1 team owner
1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
Deaths
1990 – Roald Dahl, British author
NOV 23
Births
1859 – Billy The Kid, American outlaw
1864 – Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive – President of the Packard Motor Car Company
1887 – Boris Karloff, British actor
1888 – Harpo Marx, American comedian
1954 – Ross Brawn, English motorsport engineer and F1 team owner
1968 – Kirsty Young, Scottish television journalist
Deaths
1990 – Roald Dahl, British author
l’ve got lots of photos on slides but l can’t afford to get them converted.
I think it possible to buy an adaptor to fit a scanner for scanning in slide images so that you can process them yourself or take them for printing.
I used to see a few for sale on Ebay so maybe they are still available.
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l’ve tried three scanners in stores & none of them work, so l’ll get them done at Jessops.
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This photo shows the slipway & German WWII Cemetery at Tobruk in 1966. l’ve got lots of photos on slides but l can’t afford to get them converted.
Here’s some more photos of El Adem + some of mine including the Station Crest http://www.google.com/images?q=el+adem+libya&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=li
Here’s two links to RAF El Adem/Tobruk
RAF El Adem/Tobruk Libya http://rides.webshots.com/album/44534383ludfbm?start=0
El Adem + Tobruk Reminisce
http://www.don-simmonds.co.uk/reminisce.htm
My first week at El Adem was an lnduction Course including what NOT to do, this included not going off the desert roads by more than 100 yds as you were likely to step on a mine. There were minefield maps but they were not very accurate, so l never went off the desert roads.
After severe sandstorms which exposed the minefields, Libyans would collect mines, put them on board their rowing boats and go out into Tobruk harbour. They would throw the mines into the water & if they exploded the dead fish would float to the surface.
One day two Arab children had picked up a German S-mine, they took it to Tobruk beach & tried to throw it into the water. Tragically the mine detonated before it reached the water & decapitated them both.
From Jim Butler in California. Boeing Plant 2 -The End of an Era
any idea how long she’ be docked for?
She’ll be at Northumbria Quay, North Shields, welcoming the people of the North-East on board for a look round, on Saturday & Sunday from 10am-3pm. Among the ‘kit’ to be seen on board will be a Sea King Asac helicopter, from the 849 Naval Air Squadron, and a Merlin NH Mk1 helicopter, of 814 squadron.
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