1963-1966 odds and ends

50+ years old images taken when I was still at school with a bunch of old time, point and shoot style cameras. All Kodak ranging from a folding 620 through a Brownie 127 to an Instamatic, none of which was of great quality, Black and white predominates as for a 14 year old schoolboy that was expensive enough! A few Instamatic colour shots which was a luxury, the film probably came with the camera as a present in 1965.
Everything has been scanned from an album of prints that I still have (negatives having been long lost) and is not of the highest quality - I didn't really know anything about the fundamentals of photography then and the images were just snapshots while trainspotting. Chasing the trains was expensive enough on limited pocket money and came first.

(Details and, if possible estimated dates, will follow shortly. I am undertaking the research at the moment - of course, all my notebooks are long gone. From 1966 my "Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" years took over - I blame it on the ending of steam in the UK!)

35024 "East Asiatic Company" sits on Eastleigh shed, looking cold and not in steam. It is probable that it was at Eastleigh for exam pending its withdrawl in January 1965 as it looks to be on the far lines at the back of the shed where locos heading to the works for attention or scrapping were kept. This would make the date in the latter months of 1964.<br />
Eastleigh, and particularly the shed, was in reach by bike (about nineteen miles from Gosport) when the roads were much less hazardous and the M27 wasn't even a gleam in some planner's eye! Frequent visits were undertaken and it kept me fit for football and cricket - nearly as important to a 14 year old as steam engines.<br />
Overhauls of MN's had been stopped by this time, 35007 being the last to receive a "general" exam in August of that year. 35024 made its way to Wales and was cut up by I. C. Woodfield at Town Dock, Newport.

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35024 "East Asiatic Company" sits on Eastleigh shed, looking cold and not in steam. It is probable that it was at Eastleigh for exam pending its withdrawl in January 1965 as it looks to be on the far lines at the back of the shed where locos heading to the works for attention or scrapping were kept. This would make the date in the latter months of 1964.
Eastleigh, and particularly the shed, was in reach by bike (about nineteen miles from Gosport) when the roads were much less hazardous and the M27 wasn't even a gleam in some planner's eye! Frequent visits were undertaken and it kept me fit for football and cricket - nearly as important to a 14 year old as steam engines.
Overhauls of MN's had been stopped by this time, 35007 being the last to receive a "general" exam in August of that year. 35024 made its way to Wales and was cut up by I. C. Woodfield at Town Dock, Newport.