Hi Mark , i have only been to Four Oaks Sutton Colefield once and for some reason i always associate it with Mr and Mrs George although wouldn't have been with them , possibly you told me at the time they lived there also .[/size]
I remember the Pub well , was too young to drink but enjoyed the time spend there , Bob Jones the B&W manager used to enjoy a drink before setting off home to Coventry and dropping me off on the way , you might remember him because he always wore a Bow Tie .
Remember another guy called Dave i think , he was on the printers , much taller than me , very intelligent guy , possibly grad student who also applied for a commission in the RAF .
As i remember the B&W section you would walk in and the developing tanks and Drums were on the left , to the right were the printers and beyond at the top were the Hand Enlargers where i finally worked up until i left early 68 . Not sure if there was anyone else working on Enlargements other then me , quite possibly there was . The thing that springs to mind at the time i was doing Enlargements was a new machine they brought in , it wasn't very big and sat on the bench , it had to be used with its own special printing paper . Initially i was developing the prints the traditional way in dishes but with this machine you only had to do the exposure then insert it into the machine , it then went through internal roller and appeared out the other side quite quickly developed and almost dry . I was impressed with its simplicity but not so much with the quality of the prints .
I remember the Pub well , was too young to drink but enjoyed the time spend there , Bob Jones the B&W manager used to enjoy a drink before setting off home to Coventry and dropping me off on the way , you might remember him because he always wore a Bow Tie .
Remember another guy called Dave i think , he was on the printers , much taller than me , very intelligent guy , possibly grad student who also applied for a commission in the RAF .
As i remember the B&W section you would walk in and the developing tanks and Drums were on the left , to the right were the printers and beyond the Hand Enlargers where i finally worked up until i left early 68 . Not sure if there was anyone else working on Enlargements other then me , quite possibly there was . The thing that springs to mind at the time i was doing Enlargements was a new machine they brought in , it wasn't very big and sat on the bench , it had to be used with its own special printing paper . Initially i was developing prints the traditional way in dishes but with this machine you only had to do the exposure then insert it into the machine , it passed through internal roller and appeared out the other side quite quickly developed and almost dry . I was impressed with its simplicity but not so much with the quality of the prints .
Hope you can make sense of all that .