A busy day tomorrow with catch up editing, another Merseyside Still Film and another film from Dave Cole's archive.

Today's slide show features another selection from the Skipton running day yesterday. I've a long zoom meeting with my solicitor for the application in court to get my natural father added to my birth certificate.

The service buses varied a lot, there were actually three open toppers, all with plenty of passengers. There were some good loading and frequency seldom seemed to slacken. I'll be getting the still photo film done of Merseyside, ready for the nocturnal running day and Christmas. Meanwhile here are some of the buses seen today, more shots tomorrow perhaps.

Here are some recent DVD releases

As promised some more Sussex scenes by Dick Gilbert

There is seldom time to sit back and relax as I work my way through some large DVD orders. I'm also continuing with the scanning of Phil Tatts  film for OTA. It looks to be almost if not totally railway which is a bit of a grind for me. I'm hoping for some relief with Fred Iveys reels which are now in Shrewsbury. I'm going to dig into the Dick Gilbert collection this time with photos he took in or near Eastbourne, the Crumbles with old railway tracks and then in 1987 the hurricane.

Next time we'll take a look at Uckfield railways, gala etc.

Neighbours here for meal this evening, just back from Polio Fellowship meeting, M56 motorway 90 min delay, road works on the next most obvious route. So without any delay more from my friend Dick Gilbert and his years involved with aviation.

I discovered Dick Gilbert via his Skyline Aviation website which gave ( and still gives) bus rally information right up-to-date.
Chatting to him back a few years we discovered we had lived almost parallel lives moving from London to Eastbourne at an early age, attending Eastbourne Grammar School and being in adjoining Royal Observer Corps Posts . Then was our love of buses, aviation and local history. Dick had taken pictures of the old railways on The Crumbles now housing estates courtesy Duke of Devonshire. Anyway he then worked all his life with small airlines mostly cargo, I had experience of a small airline when we owned Casair at work using it for trips to Shetlands and Ireland where I worked. His son has followed his dad's wishes and made all his aircraft shots freely available subject to credit. Here is a selection.

Some quite large DVD orders, people are making sure they get their DVDs before we finish making new ones 2028 and supplying old ones 2023. The way to go is by digital downloads which are HD quality, the whole range and most archives can be supplied like this. Meanwhile I'm scanning more Phil Tatt material for OTA, films from Dave Cole again will go to OTA after copying to HD and removing family material with transport interest on Youtube. Here are some photos in Bury, it was a very challenging day for weather and light.

Shots taken at the Ashton bus station this morning.

Yes here we are once more multi tasking. Sometimes you don't know what the result will be like, the cine scanner offers a tiny screen but the Black Magic download of analogue gives a full screen preview. In this case it is Dave Cole in Berlin 1990 plus Birmingham, Glasgow and North Weald the same year. Just like my own Video8 and more so Hi8 there is a loss of image on bottom edge plus a few glitches but working from the original does give fabulous images. Meanwhile some more Midland Red 120 photos. The Phil Tatt films are hard to identify as he had stopped using card boxes by 1966 and just referred to his own 4minute film numbers as taken with zero description. We do need more orders for the models from China both Singapore Enviro 500 3 door and the Volvo artics. I'm put the description on again, I'm sure they will sell like hot cakes but is we don't get numbers up there may be none made.