The Proof

Why is your Chairman showing Eric the "DOUBLE WHAM'-1Y" ?

Right, What is the above "OLD-PRINT"all about?

The A&HGroup are invited to WINDSORCASTLE.

'Clive T1 trying to convince the Conrerence that he is at the controls of the "FLYING SCOTSMAN"well a 4plus4 TANK

The Groups O1tn "Audio-Visuel" Division hosted by Clive Tanner.conterence News.

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IT.ABLEOF CONTENTS

MEETJHE NEWCOMMITTEE for 1986.

1 MEETTHECOM'-1ITTEE.

2 t 98~ A~ CHAI~N' S REPORT t e ome ma e lens.

ta AGM & Conference report JW

9 Bubble Trouble JB.

10 GROUPTRIP to BRISTOL& stereo pair.

11 A DAYIN FIESOLEA.S.

12 II II

13 GROUPTRIP to OOi/NHOUSE

15 CHERNOBLE & THE SCRIPTURES. & facts.

16 150,000 PIECES of PORCLAIN.

17-19 GROUPTRIP to WALTHAMAEBEY 20 WITCHDOCTOR & the CHIP.

21-22 GO FORTHEDISTINCTIONS.

23 CHAIRMAN'SREPORTpa rt II B11 •

24 HIGH!TEREMEMBERED.

25-26 OURHERITAGEIN THEMAKING,

27 CHAIRMANSREPORTpart 11 C11

28 CHAIRMANSREPORTpart 11 D11

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30

31 LETTERS.RECEIVED.

32LETTERSRECIEVED.

33 GROUPVISIT TO WINDSORCASTLE.

34 - 35 A&HGroup PROGRAMME •

Blll'lling Iuue

WITH immaculate timing the Buildillc Conservation Trust has chosen to hold an exhibition. on "The Care of Buildings" at Hampton Court.

Their brochure promises ''Special Daya at Hampton Court" which will highlight ".the ,PIOblemsand faults that can develop in buildincs." It helpfully adds: "If neglected these can rapidly become more serious and expensive to cure."

The exhibition shows "processes, materials and products that are used today to bring faulty structures back to useful life it also shows ways in which to protect bo~ses by a little care and fores1cht from the ravages of time and weather."And fire?

past President V.Harrison Hon FRPS.

VICTOR.J.Heppelthwaite ARPS. Chairman & H.c&B.W. and in dire need of extra ~lp.

WALDENLRPS. prolififc writer your Prog Sec:

Jim Brown LRPS retiring Hon SEc: Exhibit ion Sec: Johti Spence LRPS.

Arthur Paar :RPS. Other members will be introduced when

they can be oictu red

1986 AGM& SUMMERCONFERENCENEWS ..

ARCHAEOLOGY & HERITAGEGROUP.ROYALPHOTOGRAPHIC Soc: "Chairmansrep-ott".

Looking back on 1985, I have to report it has been a very busy year, The Group have probably since the very begining.

12th April 1986.

that for the Chair had more meetingi,

Members have been considered even to the extent of having meetings arranged in the Midlands, albeit even with good publicity, very poorly attended, even by our standards.

So, what we must do is look, not for the reasons our members don't make good mixers, but to our own resources, the strengths and weaknesess of any Society lie in its ordinary membership, as well as the Executive Officers.

We few members at this gathering, probably represent almost exclusively the sum total of realiY interested members, so far as meetings are concerned. For we have arranged Museu"'. trips, Site visits, Historic, Archaeological and National Trust days, without exception the most popular feature of any meeting just has to be the prospect of a good tuck-in,a glass or two of decent wine and a chat.

Which probably explains one mystery to me, the popularity of the "DINNERCLUB".

Appalled at the high cost of a good enlargina hlens, 1the Edi.tor. trd·es his hano ar ome ens grinoing. nly 1t not that simple.

The good old "South-Bend" lathe is ~M16asis lha~'·Viabe t ~arcf.l' 5 r le~~rnef~H to fhe Etasi in 4iana wt naven •\ anv oerioa1.r:. cyclic rancfi~ variation to the m.)ti.on ror star rs.so ..lll.e. are hardlv. aocut to put ssrs l\'U~S out ot business are we.

~o-ruJ.~ a~&_ awa~ofuf~so~t,~laf~gotmhsomoHg~ an Tl.n->expert oe t t llc" o e wrist would eliminate the rather alannintg circular trench 11Ke ,.!i[Ooveo. toa g1°0 arBe~{eof 1 .Of\:-re~thea~~~~ i t~ 15c~ va}ue~ o1 'Han~/1 Ira tmansh1p art: va 10 to-dav. Bul now .mv wo en tormer was anytning ut rad1a1,loo mg more likeAthe shaoe.forhoroducina a.saua sheo egg, high po11sn as bee~ ach1eveo and looks fine. If anvona [eauires a lens that puts a nice flarey HA u·rouno every

thina-lve aot one. Now I will have to

search hare at the next meeting 0t the

Collectors Club of Great Brita1n,when it meets at SWANLEYKENT next November 14th.See you there? Victor.

HOMELENSGRINDHJG.

-1986A & B Group Conference leport.

The Archaeology & Heritage Group 1986 Conference took place over the weekend of 11th to 13th April 1986 at the Crystal Palace Sports & Conference Centre in South-East London.

Things got under vay with a Sherry reception, & after Dinner, Bernard Brandham presented a lecture illustrated by transparancies explaining the origins of the Horniman Museuia, & of some 0£ the work commissioned by the Musewa recently, Horniman vas a tea importer vho made a fortune by selling tea in "pre-packed" packages that were of guaranteed weight. He vas a great collector, &assembled 111AJ1Yitems of interest from all over the World to display at his home "Surrey House" in Forest Hill. Soon the Collection grew to such an extent that he decided to build a proper IIUSewa which vas designed by the architect Harrison Towsend, & opened to the public in 1902.

Bernard Brandham shoved a variety of photographs of the Musewa•s beginings; pictures of posters, & various other doccmients ~the turn 0£ the Century. We were then told about so111eof the 1110rerecent work 0£ the Husewa.

In the 1970's, the remains of several up-draught kilns dating the 1st or 2nd Century A,D. were found in Highgate Woods. In conjunction with the I.L,E,A,, it vas decided to carry out an experi•nt to construct a .l'axsimily kiln, to to re-create a Roman pottery using only materials & equip•nt that vould have been available to the original potters. The project vas a great success, & it vu found that the kiln worked effectively, & pots were made as they would have been some 1800 years ago.

A selection of transparancies of artifacts nov at the Museumwere then shown, These included photo~raphs of an Egyptian Neolithic tomb, llll.llllllly-formgranite figures & a burial mask. It vu pointed out that JRUCh be obtained the study of such artifacts.

We were then shown photographs of cera111ics around the World; a Greek black figure vase, a Peruvian doll, a Mexican Myan urn & a South American stirup vase. We also sav pictures of various masks & shadow puppets both ancient & 110dern. The traditional fol'lll of such iteias has not chuged tor hundreds of years, although the 11aterials used uy have altered.

The Horniman bas a fine collection ot musical instruMents, & ve were shown photographs of a selection of thesef followed by images 0£ a variety of ethnic dolls & figures. Bernard Brandhu also let us see illustrations ot 19th Century Slavic Bee-Houses & their painted decorations, together with photographs 0£ Navahoe Aaerican Indian horse blankets. Although the traditional 0£ these blankets has reuined constant £or centurys, recent reflect Western cultural contact, & include scenes shoving motor-cars, le even pictures of Snoopyr,

Following the A~V show, Bernard Brandhu discussed the possibility of creating an u-c:hive of "the high street to~" u being a vay of preserving a heritage ot history in the u.king.

Continuing Friday evening's progra.ae, Clive Tmner preseted a triple projector A-V shov. This vas most iapressive, & vu not the "light entertaimaent to put you to sleep" that Clive said it would bel First sequence vas "I've got a thing about trains", This vas photographed at the Bluebell Line in Sussex, & expertly put together to 111Usicby_Johnny Cash. We vere then treated to a selection oE pictures oE Cathedrals oE England, & the shov vas concluded vith "A hoae oE my Own". This vas a sequence shoving house building today, courtesy oE Barratts Ltd. Altogether a 110st enjoyable evenings entertainment.

On Saturday 110rning, the ConEerence continued with a talk by Higel Neil, the Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit. This is probably the largest archaeological unit in the country, about 175 people on a regular basis. We were told about soae oE the projects the G.M,A.U. is involved in. There are interesting archaeological sites in the Manchester area, & a selection oE colour slides vere_projected illustrating some ot the G.M.A.U.'s vork. Projects include excavations at Castleshav Pennine Fort, the Blackstone Edge project, the Castletield Project, the Greater Manchester Hill Survey, & excavations at the s_ite ot the "Bulls Head Inn", SalEord.

A shot in the dark,Nigel NEIL from Manchester Museum Service,delivered a superb lecture on that City's heritage

( L) Berna ·d Brandon ,Curator of "HORNIMANS- ~USEUM" S.E.24.Who gave the fine talk -.;;1 the museums history,and its founder of "TEA-TIME"fame.

(R) Clive T,Who attempted to persuade British Rail to go back to "STEAM"• /

It is particularly tascinating the way that Industrial Archaeology takes over Archaeology within the Manchester area. It is hoped that an Archaeology & Heritage Group Conterence be arranged that will take place in Hancb~ster, perhaps in 1988. Further details in due course.

Following on Nigel Neil; an expert in Coins, Peter Horris talked to WI about British Crovns; that is the live-shilling pieces. Re explained three main reasons tor the photographing ot coins, tor security, tor display, & tor study. We were then show a series of transparancies illwitrating Crovn coins dating from 1551, minted during the Reign of Iing Edward V1, through to a Crovn iainted in 1981, depicting the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer.

The value of coins to collectors varies considerably. Probably the 110st valuable Crovn coin at present is inscribed Shaw hWllbly petitions" minted in 1663 during the ieign of Charles 11. These coins, of which only about a dozen survive, are nov worth about £40,000 each.

Peter Horris gave us a most interesting talk, on a subject vhich vas un-tallliliar to of those present.

On Saturday afternoon the Annual General Meeting ot the Archaology & Heritage Group vas held, & following this we vere treated to an intoJ'll&l talk fro11 John Bardsley, Hon. F.R.P.S., a past President of the Royal Photographic Society.

For John Bardsley, photography started in 1919 with a 6d cardboard c&111era;however this never worked properly & in 1921 he bought his first "proper" camera, a lodak Box Brovnie. It is now 65 years sine he got that ca111era,& he has just been bitten by tbe Photography Bugl

Days money took a real hammering

DESPITE their name, hammered coins are not "beaten-up.. old coins, but the description refers to the way they were made: a round piece of silver or gold was placed between two coin dies, and struck by a hammer.

The illustration. done by Hans Burgkmair in about 1500. shows how coins were minted in medieval times: silver was bought in by weight (top); melted and rolled into sheets which were beaten into the correct thickness

(centre); then. once cut into roughly round shapes (left) they were "hammered'" between carefully prepared coin dies (right).

This was tht: way dll coins were minted. from the Greek and Roman coins to our own coinaie, until 1662 when new machinery was installed at the Mint in the Tower orLondon. and mass production of coins began.

British coins did not have a date until Queen Elizabeth the First introduced them on sixpences and lower value coins, but dates were not introduced properly until 1662.

The way to date early hammered coins is to look at the mint-dark, which is usually at 12 o'clock on both sides. A careful look at the Elizabeth 20shillings coin will reveal a small woolpack (as found in the House of Commons): this mark was used on coins minted between 1594 and 1596.

Similarly. the half-groat (or twopence) of Henry the Eigth has the mint-mark WS on the tails, which indicates it was produced between 15471549. It portrays the King just as most of us imagine hiin. fat and evil-looking - ifs just as well this coin was issued posthumously, as the mint-masters might otherwise have been for the chop!

An evil practice ~arrie~ out by traders in medieval times was to clip a sliver off the coins that passed thr?ugh their hands; they claimed they did this to check the fineness of the coins and also to protect against forgery; but in truth they hoarded these clippin~s until they had amassed a mce pile of silver. - t_he kings. to safeguard their C?tn· age. intmduccd a ra1~cd• wording on the edge of thick· er coins. which read "De~u~ et Tutamen" - a decoration

ROYALROLLCALL

Checklist of British Monarchs from Henry the Eight to Elizabeth the Second:

Henry VIII, 1509-47

Edward vr. 1547-53

Mar)·· 1553-54

Phihp and Mary. 15."4-58

Elizabeth I. 15.58-1603

James I. 1603-25

Charles I. 1625-49 and a safeguard.

The Commonwealth. 1649-6(

Look at the pound coins m Charles II. 1660-85 your pocket - do you se~ th_e James II. 1685, 1685-88 same legend? You wont if WilliamandMary.1688-94 it's a '-cottish or Welsh com. · WilliamlII.1694-1702

Just as the Romans used

mainly one silver coin (ths· denarius) in the early Empire. so too only one coin was common in Britain until ahout 1279 - the silv.:r penny. Interestingly. the din £sd came from denanus.

To convert it into a halfpenny or fourth ling (sorry. farthing). you simply had to cut the com in half or four. And, usefully. the reve_r~ of the penny coin was d1v1ded into four sections by a cross.

The penny illustrated is of Edward I, who was King from 1272 until 1307, and ~as minted in London - Civitas London - the city of London.'

Anne. 1702-14 ,

George I. 1714-27

George II. 1727-60

George III. 1760-1820 I

George IV. 1820-30

William IV. 1830-37

Victoria. 1837-1901

EdwardVII.1901-J(I

George V. 19!0-36

Edward VIII. I 936

George VI. 193t>-5 • Elizabeth. accede,

Past PRESIDENT& irrepreswie~ Committee worker,John was full of enthusiasm for his hobby,

Simplicity ot aessage is one ot the hall-aarks ot good photography, & self discipline could be considered to be the proper way to produce Art.

Ask yourself "Why do you take photographs?" "Is photography Art?" Think about illustration rather than record, & above all think about the pho• that you take.

To SWll up, Gvill held up a plastic cup in his hand, & suggested that as an exercise one could "Define a plastic cup tor the purpose of photography", & that it would be interesting to photograph a plastic cup in variou.s vays as a test of one's photographic technique.

Alter Gvill Oven's thought provoking talk, Veronica & Ji• Brown showed us soae colour slides ot Ibiza.

Following lunch, Martin Reed, fro• Silverprint brought along a selection of items from Silverprint's stock of quality monochrome papers, chemicals, & accesories. He also de110nstrated hov to 110unt photographs, & hov to cut a "vin40v" in J110unting board using a Dexter-type ~t cutter.

First measure the iniag~ size ot the pictu~e to be 110unted. Mark tbe area to be cut vith a pencil, on the board.Should you aount the photo exactly in the middle of the mount, it vill not look right, so mount the picture just a fev M.M.s above the centre. Then cut the window vith a Dexter tool, or instrument. Align the "windov" over the actual bo&rd the picture is to be afixed to before sticking down the photo to aake sure of correct allignment, & that is it- a perfectly photograph.

Dr Mike APTEDleft lectured on tr,e "TtNl;MOUTHovn Batteries' a sub.1e~t of n1s most recent invest1gat1ons.

Martin Re~d rillt, represent1no SI v~Wrrint Cot the Landon oes 1m rter o vnusual bromide pa rs & other 1nterest1ng items.

the cheerful faces enJoy1ng that Saturday DINNER BOOKNOWFOR 19R7. •

In bow-tie Allen 'rOUt-r;ARPS. past Cteirman Tonbridge C.C.

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scene a, the Saturday Dinner table,John Bardsley Hon FRPS in listening mood with Allen Young ARPS.who with Clive Tanner entertained the Group withwhat has to be a milestone in Audio-Visual presentation.

~ilverprint Liaited aay lie.contacted on 01-480 6625, & they opperate an efficient mail-order service should you wish to purchase photo paper~, mounting.boards, chemicals or sundries.

Clive Tanner then continared th~ afternoon with a selection of superb 6cm x 6cm colour transparancies of Cathedrals. These were first class, & lastly, John Adams talked on Roiaenesque& PreRoaenesque Churches in Northern Spain. John Adalls has aade a study of these Churches which date from the 9th & 10th Century A.D. & ve were shovn some colour prints of various examples.

The aeeting was closed with a cup of tea & a chat, & the consensus of opinion was that we had had a superb Conference. Our siacere thanks to Victor J.Hepplethwaite, A.R.P,S., Conference organiser, Group Chairman, & Editor of "The Proof",

The 1987 Confereace will again be held at Crystal Palace, on the weekend of 29th to 31st May 1987, So make a note in your diary nowl

John Walden, L.R.P.S,

available light shot of John Bardsley with his folder,survivor of many battles.

My ½sec @f1•2 finds Gwyll ver¥ active in the darkened con erence hall.(phsyche too)

Gwyll 01,0n advocate of the phsyche,advances a very deep theory on · ~he shape of the cup?

NBUBBLETROUBLE-.J_i~ Brown.

What were they, I wondered, these small circular marks on the print.

A furious inspection of the negative gave me the answer - air bubbles.

I had read about them of coursewe all have - but they were always some-thiny. that happened to the other guy. With my ultra careful processing there was no chance of bubbles on my films I

But there they were - small circular marks on the negative that meant hours of spotting and as Murphy says "If you are going to get bubbles, they will be on your best p~ctures."

With a rare bout of determination I vowed that they would not occur again. But how to avoid them 7 Wetting Agent, I thought - make sure the film wets prop-erly & and there is no chance of bubbles.

Now, I like to use a Wetting Agent in the final rinse so it seemed like a good idea to empty the tank & let it drain, like washing up, without rinsing it.

When I c011e to load my next film to the tank (I'm in a hurry, of course, and in e changing beg) it stopped about two inches into the spirel.

I can't remem~r whet I said, but it wes something like· "Oh dear, whet e pity".

Then I remembered: Wetting Agent is hygroscopic - it picks up water from the etmosphere - and I hadn't rinsed the spirel. It seemed dry, but close exa•in-ation showed. "it to be very slightly sticky. Since thet ·day I have emptied the devel-oping tank but not rinsed it & made sure thet all treces of Wetting Agent are weshed of the ·spirel.

Result 7 No more air bubbles & no more sticking films. Air bubbles always heppen to the other guy-dont t~y 7

Heritage 1;1cws

THE village of Meriden, in Warwick~hire. is generally said to be at the centre of F.ngland (or at any rate of :England and Wa.les). Acco~u!g fo a report by Solihull Council: m \\°nose domain_it is. ma_nyforeign tourists are disappointed because they can find ·nothing in it to demonstrate the filct except a mediaeval stone cross and a bicyclists' memorial stone.

There is no visitors' car park and no "facilities to get a cup of tea or coffee for the weary traveller (sic)". So the council suggests, among other things, new parking bays for tourists_ at the village pond, tree-planting "to hide eyesores" (what eyesores?), and landscaping ot the main roads through the village.

This is not good enough. There should be signposts all over the place indicating the way to the "Centre of England", and at the actual Centre a manned Interpretive Centre, with diagrams, charts and recorded "audiophone" lectures in six languages on the concept of environmental centrality. in the English countryside. ·

What these foreign toutjsts would really like are a few old tales and legendary features-for instance, a figure which appears at the Centre on Midsummer Eve. believed by the villagers to be the ghost of a Meriden girl ravished in the Middle Ages by a wicked baron with an interest in geography who had sworn to wreak his evil will at the exact centre of England.

There might. on the other hand. be an Oracle at the Centre, on the analogy of Delphi. the "Navel of the Earth". Instead of ambiguous utterances, ·the Pythoness. a council leisure official. would give out useful information about local nature trails,/ places of "tourist in!t:r~st" and · bed and breakfastfac1hhes.

All this would cost the Solihull Council money. But it would be returned a hundredfold from the pockets of foreign tourists as Meriden itself became a precious part of our English Heritage.

The Group triP. to 6rist9l docks arranoeo by ~harlie Brown,o~r most active West ern member, turned out to be a battle against the storm,

The largest c·ontinoent arrived eaoer and cneertul trom the London area-of ourse. hanks o· to thos lrdy membirs who di~ t3k~ the Journey tor the day.

The Waltham Abbey meeting under the care of Reg Mason Hon FRPS.provided great opportunit- -ies tor the camera.

Seen in the Museum an entire room of early carved wall panels,about 8inch square (20cm?)they dominated the rest ot the eJ$hibj.ts with their fine crattmanship. This STEREOpair be viewed tree

A DAYlN FIESJLE

A glimpse into many pasts.

After several days of gazing at the Florence Duano, the Pont Vecchio arrl the ...~rks of Michelangelo, Titian, Rubens, Valesquez, Rapael etc etc, I decided to get a bit of fresh Tuscany air. Hanly ,as it is only half an hour by his (abt .25p) was a lovely village high on a hill above Florence called · Fiesole of which frequent ~ntion is mcde in guide books, so off I ~nt anned • with my M6 arrl lots of film, Helas,photo-graphically speaking, it ..as a bit of a disappoin~nt as cloods rung in the skies arrl the lack of sun \onlld result in lack of contrast in the photo-graphs of the grey stones of the ex--cavations.

It was in 1792 that a fanner, digging his field on the slopes near the village, discovered a section of staircase. He dutifully reported it to the authorities, who persuaded an eminent expert AbbeLanzi to evaluate the i.mp'.)rtance of the discovery. Unfortunately re declated it of little relevance arrl any "10rk was then stopped. Not till 1809, on the initiative of a Prussian Barron vonScherlersein ~re excavations restarted. Fran tren on the "10rk of excavation arrl discovery bas proceeded to this day.

Alex Simmons.

A DAY IN FIESOLE cont:

We ~ld hardly agree with Abbe Lanzi that the worderful ruins of Fiesole M.ich of the reconare of ''Little relevance" The first -struction was no doubt a figment of archaeological map designed by a local his imagination. Nevertheless, after man, Angelo Bibi in 1815 shows an :i.rnµ)sing 200 years of digging now have, within city,with a stronghold surroorrled by quite a small area, evidence of the triple bourdary walls• presence of man on that hill since the

cegining of the secorrl millenilllll B.C. am this presence appears uninterrupted throoghout the Bronze Age tmtil typical ''Villanovan" fragments bring u& to the threshold of the actual Etruscan Age.

The site, at present, contains ~11 preserved remains of an Etruscan temple, an almost canplete Ranan amphitheatre, am equally ~11 preserved Ranan Bathes, dating fran the 1st century A.D. The many graves discovered in the aear close to the village have yielded a large munber of artifacts airl many every day life articles for which a tm.lsealllllwas b..tilt in the fonn of a temple. The objects are exhibited in 3 roans am are all tagged with precise arrl ample infonnation

It is not my µ.irpose to descrice here in detail the magnificent excavat-ions. Suffice it to say that anyone who finds himself in Tuscany could ~11 sperrl a day enjoying a grunpse into the past in the brilliant(usually) Italian sunshine.

In addition to the archaeological site, the little ta-m contains a 13th Century Church, a nruselllll of art with many ceautiful painting::; fran the Florence Cathedral am other galleries, a Cath--edral finished in 1028, am a Church which was the birthplace of the Franciscan order.

Where else can yru get a cetter 25p' s worth of archeology, with a 100st magnificent view of the whole of Florence thra-m in free ?

Chernobyl'deaths

• in Bible'

By Ian Ball in New York

A SCRIPTURE text fr_om Revelations which speak of "a star called wormwood" causing a con• flagration and poisoning the waters so that "many men died." is being read and r~read by atheists and believ~ ers across the Soviet Unioh in the wake of the ChemQ• byl nuclear catastrophe.

Chernobyl is the Ukrai~ian word for wormwood. a bitter herb used in rural Russia as a tonic. Before the nuclear a1e came to the Ukraine and the banks of the Dnieper. womt• wood grew in abundance ~re hence the name Chemob:4; for the site of four power plantl. · The reference to .:_ in , Ukrainian - •·the star called Chernobyl" occurs in Revelations chapter 8, verses 10, 11. In the authorised version they read:

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from hea11en. burning as i·t u:ere a lamp, and it fell upon the third parL of the rivers, and upon the f oantaina of waters.

And the 11ame of the star_ is called Wormwood: and tlw tliird part of the waters bP.came wonnwood; and many men diP.d of the waters, because they were made bitter.

As a result, Ukrainian dictionaries are being pored over throughout Russia-along witn the relevant passage frorn::tHe scriptures in Russia~ Soviet citizens who wa~ check that Chernobyl" meilfi-' wormwood in Ukrainian. , ':-::

"With the uncanny sp~~ common to rumour in the Soviet Union, the discovery had sprelid across the Soviet land, conU-ibuting to the swelling body of lor~ that has shaped the public consciousness of the disaster at the Chernobyl atomic power plant in the Ukraine." the New York Times reported from Mol>cow.

Facts; Facts; /

THe Bi~ho1> of Tlurham, Dr I IJavid .Jenkin~. ha~ pred(·hcd in York minster for rhe lir\l time sinte it caught firr a few dd.YS .tltcr his consecration there two yt•ars ago.

lie seems to have learned little from that experience. He told the congregation that the writers of the Gospels were more ronrerned ~ith pas~ing on thrir faith than getting their facts right. "The story i~ important ( sicJ not for its historical acrnrac.v", he said, "still less its srkntilic dcsniption. It's important for its message"

Studirs, he went on, have shown that the early Christians \,ere not bothered about histo!'ic.: acc-uracy the way people .,re today. but not many "studies". surely, were needed to ~how this.

How could the early Christians have br.en concerned 1, ith scientific facts and historic accuracy? Such an attitude to the world, a beli<'f in "lacts" dbove all things, though we are supposed to take it for ~ranted now. scarcely existed in their tla_v.

Come to that, how manv prople are all that concerned about "historic accuracv'' now?

Thr Bishop ~hould get about n10rr. listen to wh.tt "ordinary p<'oplc" arc saying. He would be surprised by their slight concern for historic accuracy, even about the events of their own lifetime. When was it I overheard someone on a bus main• tain that the Vietnam war was fought in Central America?

The Bishop should also bear in mind that ~ome real scientists (not the old-fashioned Yirtorian rationalists he is thinking of) are beginning to doubt whether there are any "farts" in his sense of the word at all.

Peter Simple

FIGHTS ERUPTED outside Christie's Amsterdam salesrooms yesterday as large crowds queued to view the celebrated Nanking cargo, salvaged from the South China Sea wreck of the Dutch East Indiaman Geldermalsen.

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llis search, using high tec::hnology equipment. bej!c1n following his acndent1al disc-overv of a free tradmg Cluoese Junk in 1983 from whith he and hi~ team brougbt up a 1640s t1111e capsule" of pol'C'ela1n "hit h threw new hght on an obscure .period of Chioei.e export \'\'art· and was sold, amid mud1 acclaim, also at Chr1sl1C''s 111 Amsterdam.

"That really set mC' looking tor early vessels, though at the time I had no idea what I had found," said Capt. Hatcher who. witb his crew, expects to get 20 per rent. ofth~ sale pric~.

Initially valued at about £3 million, the cargo, comprising 150,000 pieces of porcelain and 125 gold bars, is now expected to fetch. far more.

The unique sale of the ship's cargo, much of it in pri,;tinf' condition, has aroused excrptional entbusiasum.

Tempers became frayed and fights erupted as up to J5.llfilJ people jostled and pushed their way into the salesrooms.

The Geldermalsen hacl set ofl from Canton on its Wil'v h.ic I,. to Holland, when, on Ja11. 3, l7fJ2. she struck a rnral rPd ,HHI sank. Most of thr. pots 011 ho,tnl were preserved in tea. tht: ship's main cargo.

Threat from pirates

The treasure \\as rc•tuH•r<•d bv Capt. Michael Hatdwr. a t,11. mer Dr Bamardo's buv. \\·hu,r main rivals were Soutb Ch111J Sea pirates.

"We were wr.11 aware we could be knocked oft at c111v time. But we are allowed to (·arry arms on our boat," said Capt. Hatcher, 4ti.

The cargo is named after the pi.in• where it was Iran,-.. ,h1µpe1I en route from the kilns to CJnton.

Dutch East India Companv rt•cords indil'att• that the• l;t'JdermalsC'n wa,; carryin,:: '.!03 thc·,h 1ncludrni: 171 dinnc•r ,-.er, IC c•,. ti:;,(i:!3 (l'cil ll)I~ illllf ,.1111 c·r,. l!1.,i3:i mike c UJh J111l ,J11,·1•r,. I ~.31:i d11111c•rplatt•,-.. l.-t.'i2 ,;oup plalt•,-.. 2!Jfl rn,;pi• dor,. (jllli \IJlllll pol '1. i":i ti"h bowl.,. •1-17,-.1111.!11•tfi,h<' I .0011 nt•,t,; ot round dbht:,. ,11111 25.921 slop 1.Jm,I,.

Gold ingots

Most of 1111, i,,. flt'ini: dlll'· tJUrlt'd from tod.iv unt 11 Frid,tv. Ccltalogue 1,s111nate!>tor till' sail· rJn~t• trom about JOO (l)utdrJ tlor,us a lot, or less than £30, 111 mc1ny thou!>and,-., but :.111n• viewing be!!!Jn the suggestion 1:.: •·For ffonus, read pounds."

Among the tavounte item,-. an• till' blue-and-white li,h tlr,he~ of wh1c·h Capt. Hate hl'r c11!1111h· "I would love to havC' kept one.··

The catalogue estimatr. tor 1he111 is under £2.000 each. while the gold ingots c1n• t•xpected to make about £2 500 apiece. ·

Grou_pvisit to_WALTHAMABBEYJune 86.

UNDER THE TITLE OF WALTHAM ABBEY-AN IMPORTANTHERITAGE- REG MASON. Hon FRPS. GAVE A POTTED HISTORY AND SUGGESTED A VISIT IN NEWSLETTERNo: 7.

This was duly put into effect thanks to the prior arrangements made by Mr Mason who acted as leader. His · early initiation was in a school party and no doubt his schoolmaster would be grat-ified by his continuing enthusiasm which has included reading the lesson in the Abbey Church. My own first visit was in 1925 when encouraged by a passion-ate and elderly history mistress (who-could well have been a camp follower at the battle of Hastings) I walked the tidy way from Wanstead only to find the church locked and, not having the 6d required to unlock the verger, I had to turn round and walk back.

However the Group's visit was much more successful and we were guided by Dr.Ken Bascombe of the Waltham Abbey Historical Society who is a fountain of knowledge of the church and the town.

He described the tradition of T Holy Cross, the rise and fall o monastery and the structural c which had taken place over the After hearing that the West end been strengthened Victor took an ava light shot of our guide by leanin · camera against the pillar. After it was "Fix Tri-pods" to record is the oldest Norman church in the thanks to the endowment by Haro May 1060. Six Years later his bod brought back to the church and t reputed resting place just Eas the present building.

From the photographer's poi view the Abbey Ghu rch is we11 _daylight - this also applies to large ancient wall painting in the chapel, re-discovered in 1876 and ercent ly restored. After the m session iin and around the Ch conveniently before the weddings lunch was had in the "Green or in the green sward of the Abbey

To view the above stereo-pair thro cupped hands for 3d v1s1on. no viewer required,if you can invoke "CR:>SS-EYE'S.From distance of about 24inches. CRiqht e,;J sees LEFT view & vi-sa-versa.

·and the Group adjourned to the Epping Forest District Council museum which has recently been extended and contains local exhibits and a good selection of literature.

There was a display of prints of the ruined Copt Hall by two members of the RPS. which reminded us of the splendid photographs of Waltham Abbey by Sydney Newberry FRPS in the Pictoirial History series of publications, Although Waltham Abbey was founded as a day's journey from London ( 15 miles) its historical importance tends to be over-looked which was certainly confirmed by this successful Group visit, I lived and worked in Waltham Abbey C then under the Waltham Holy Cross Urban District Council) for over 20 years and still find it a pleasure to visit and photog- raph Incidentally Waltham Cross is quite a different place being named after the Queen Eleanor Cross and not the Holy one of Tovi.

George Taylor.

a small group listening "to the Major the resident expert at the Abbey,to whom we ewe'A a debt of gratitude for the permission which was readily granted,

L to R, Vic~or,& emerging fro; under all that photo gear is Bert Crawshawe then Reg Mason •next the Major to whomwe owe our thanks and just to make matters a little more confusi the OTHERGeorge TAYLOR.. •.

Photograph by George Taylor,

• Witch doctor wisdom meets the computer

A PLEASANT · LOOKING, middle-aged man of imletenninate nationality left Heathrow I his week on a fhght to Papua \t>w Guinea and a mission to save the world.

The man is Dr Conrad Gorinsky, the Polish-Amencanlndian expert on tropical rain forests and their occupants. He 1s a director of Bioresourc-es.a subsidiary company of Earthlife. the charity. whose raison d'etre is expressed in a line from one of their advertisements: " If we continue to waste the earth's resources as if there were no tomorrow. there could well be no tomorrow."

Gorinsky is a conservationist dedicated not just to conserving endangered species but to conserving endangered information.

He argues that as well as teeming with life. the tropical rain forests-which on rurrent form we will destroy within 30 ur 40 years-are teeming with knowledge. He backs up the ,1rgument with two different lines of reasoning.

In general, the peoples of the ram forests would not have ~urvived for so long in such difficultconditions if they didn't · have a thorough understa.nding of natural medicine: "they are hving proof of the validity of their knowledge."

And in particular there are plenty of examples of important medicines that were discovered in this way-aspirin came from the willow tree, vincristine ::i treatment for leukaemia) from a species of periwinkle in Madag~scar.

The torest where the periwinkle was found has pretty well di~ppeared, Gorinsky says. And the medical know-bow he is after is threatened not just by the lumberjacks and bulldozers: it is threatened by the march of literacy. In a-culture that is rapidly ceasing to be oral, an old witch doctor will die without taking on an apprentice, and what be knows will die with him.

Unless, that is, he is button• holed in time by Gorinsky and his little solar-powered computer.

Gorinsky will be away for six weeks, two in Papua New Guinea followed by two in the Solomon Islands and two more again in PNG. He is going alone, but two field direytors who WQrk under him are already there. and so is his enormous staff-the young men and women of Operation Raleigh. "Very special people." Gorinsky says, "very gogd -at getting the trust of the locals. They don't go in like Hooray Henries."

The other indispensable parts of the team are the four Osborne computers-" my butterfly nets." They are "essentially shop-available," but Gorinsky wants to enhance them, "use them as the chassis for a complete field data capture kit." and teach the natives to use them. "You don't have to be a computer buff, anyone can learn ifin a week." ·

Once gathered, the information will be sent back to Earthlife's database in London, and made available to botanists, biologists, chemists, agronomists, perfumiersthere is ample room for frivolity," Gorinsky says-and businesses in general. for Bioresources is about commercialism as well as conscrvati,rn. "Conservation means nothin~:· Gorinsky has said, " unless '·ou can provide a guy with a livelihood."

Tim.deLisle

Go tor a •istinctiont

A long tiMe ago, when I was still at school, I often used to see in my "Amateur Photographer" titles such as "Photograph by I.H.Hason, F.I.P.S." & it becanie 'IIY illlbition to one day achieve a loyal Photographic Society distinctioa for ayself.

The years vent by, & I did nothing to realise this illlbition; but in 1,a4 I decided "It's about time I joi11ed the I.P.S.", so I wrote off tor an application fol'lll and after returning this with ay cheque I received a nice letter telling 111e that I had been accepted u a iaember of the Society.

The next step was to do SOiie photographs to subllit for evaluation. The Licentiate is the euiest of the three distinctions, • is Naly the first step along the road towards a Fellowship. To obtain a distinction, you 1111.lStsatisfy the Council of the loyal Photographic Society of your "Competence & ability in still or aotion picture techinques".There are several ways of doing this; by sul>aitting transparanciea, colour or black & white prints, or exaaples of particularly skillfl.11 work by photographic technicians.

I decided to aubllit a selection of aonocroae prints, each 11" x 14" & between stiff heritage board with a window cut in the front to display the photographs. For the L.l.P.S., a subllission ot ten pictures is required; tor the A,I.P.S or F.I.P.S. you Ill.I.St send in tvelve pictures.

It was aore difficult to decide vhat photographs to select than to actualy print them up, le I found it as hard to IIOU;Dtthe pictures u to produce the act1al prints. There is a saying "The easy bit is pressing the shutter release" - how tnie that ist

I think that it is always a problem to guess just what the Judges are looking tor, so tor ay attempt at the L.I.P.S. I sent in photographs of a variety of subjects.

The rest is history, as they say, and I was absolutly delighted when one 110rning Wile said "Congratulations" le banded 111e a letter the loyal Photographic Society addressed to, Mr V.J.Walden, L.1,P.S.

Hy next goal is to try tor the Associateship. I'• going to have to do ay best to try tor this fairly soon, as "Licentiate• is too had to pronounces

Tiae• change- in 1921 the 6c11x 9CJIInegative tor11at ot the Browie vas considered too saall for "Serious" use, but nov in 1986 tAe 6ca x tomat is a purely a professional size.

In 1926 or V he upgraded his equip111ent to a Zeiss plate ca111era, vhich cost c7.1os.Od, & about that ti11e built hi• ovn enlarger, using a 4½" optical condenser which is still in use in the (11111chrevised) home 111adeenlarger he uses today.

In 1928, he 111ethis vile, & while studying Che11istry & Biology at Manchester University began to experiment vith flash ·photography. At first he used magnesiU111ribbon, but then flash powder vhich vas quicker & more effective. In the late 193O's, satchel lights came into use. These vere very large bulbs vhich burned for 1/5th of a second. This vas ot course not quick eno~gh to "stop" 1110ve111ent of the subject. During the War, John Bardlley was photographing a large Dinner-party using 4 satchel lights. As each bulb vent oft in turn, the diners moved their head.I around to look at each light in turn, & the reaulting photo shoved 175 headless diners:

We were shown a selection of superb photographs of IIAllY subjects taken during t'le course of the last 60 years, & all present were treated to an excelent & entertaining talk.

The next speaker on the agenda was Dr. Mike Apted, who has been involved vith the restoration ot the gun emplacements at Dr. Mike explained how he has researched the project, & how an exhibition has been staged at the site 0£ this costal defence battery. We were shown a sees ot "then" & "now" pictures of the battery, & the lecture vas both interesting & informative.

~olloving an excelent Saturday evening Dinner, Alan Young Chairman ot the Tonbridge Cillllera Club presented an A.V. shov as an after dinner entertainment. There were seven sequences &11 by members of the Tonbridge Camera Club, & they were all of excelent quality. After the slide show, the evening drew to a close with the shoving ot tvo movies provided by the· Egyptian Tourist Board; "Faces of Egypt" & TutenkA1111Ul"•

Our first speeker on Sunday morning was the well .known photographer· fron Cambridge University, Gvill Oven. The subject of his talk vas "Pre-visualisation". He explained that there are different vays ot thinking, depending upon hov you approach your photography. It one is to define the difference between the Professional & the Amateur, it can be done thus:

Amateurs take pictures that are significant to themselves. A• an amateur, you have the· licence to succeed or to tail. To take the photographs that~ want.

A professional however has an external influence, & does not have "pc!rsonal meaning" as the prime moover. It you are working for s0111eoneelse, you 11Ust be successful, & what you do 11\lSt be of interest to vho;;;; you are working tor.

"Pre-visualisation" is to see in your mind what you think you are going to do before you do it, In a way it is the ability to define precisely in word.I just what you vant to do. For example "photograph tvo coffee cups", This might make you think that pre-visualisation is restricting, but it need not necessarily be so. It is a typical c111ateur approach to consider the "art" first & the "craft" second, Pre-visualisation is the ability to i11agine the picture before you press the shutter release. This can help to technical problems "self solving".

The resurrection of Highgate•

AS A RESULT of devoted efforts, Highgate Cemetery is. so to say, coming back to life. The total cost of pre• sent and contemplated repair and building work is around £300,000. to be paid from various grants and with much of the work being done by young people, otherwise une'mploycd, under the auspices of the Manpower Services Project. Experimental work has been started towards finding the best method of repairing the catacombs, while other restoration work goes ahead on the entrance chapels.

The necropolis was laid out b:v the London Cemetery Company in the late 1830s as part of a general movement for the more sanitary and seemly disposal of London's dead, away from the over-crowded churchyards. It was planned and largely built by Stephen Geary (later interred there), who also dc>signed cemeteries elsewhere and the Holborn Wine and Spirit Vaults.

Perhaps the most dramatic frdture of the Highgate CemelC'ry is the cataLOmbs and their ··· J'.gyptian-style approaches. Bl'fore Highgate got into the bc-nificent custody of the l'ricnds of Highgate Ccmclcry thc-w tombs were melancholy l'nough to make one suic.idal. I onrc took a party of young television camera people there to film ii. and it subdued them for

half a day afterwards.

The short-lived Egyptian taste came in with Belzoni's archaeological discoveries in Egypt, and produced such fanta:1ies as the vanished Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly and the delightful shop and house still preserved in Hertford. A similar fashion, inspired by the dis<'nvery of the Tutankhamun tomb, produced several Egyptian cinemas de luxe and the Rlack Cat factory at Mornington Crescent.

Highgate has been compared to the more urban PereLachaise, but the silences of Highgate are enlivened by tire song of birds from leafy niches of thorn and bramble (it is a place providing for life as well as death), whereas the chief sounds of the Parisian necropolis are of the distant children in the Buttes Montmartre.

Nubian lion; Nero, the highly

Ipolished coloured gentleman: "Hutch" Lillywhite, the tophatted and side-whiskered · cricketer: and more tha~ 160,000 others, awaiting th~ general Resurrection.

Who are these arrayed in white robes? Why, Alfred Stevens. notable Victorian art• ist and sculptor: the great Faraday: gentle, melancholy Christin a Rossetti; George Wombwell, circus proprietor and owner of the famous

Highgate early became 1'a venue for sightseers. Today, 1it is highly organised to this end. If funds are to be raised for restoration and upkeep, this is no doubt inevitable. Yet thert. is surely a novel way of fund-raising hitherto overlooked: let us sell Karl Marx, gravestone and all. with a certificate of authenticity, to the Russians.

Egyptian entrance to the catacombs, Highgate Cemetery. Drawing by Geoffrey Fletcher.

OURHERITAGE IN THEMAKING:

of On saturday 19th the Archaeology July 86, members & heritage group visited Hartley, near Dartford in Kent, Although fairly near London, Hartley is in the depths of the Kentish countryside, and at least two of our members didn't manage to find it I

It was a lovely summer afternoon when we assemb_led at All Saint's Church a beautiful small Norman Church. This was duly photographed, & the parJv then walked the hundred yards or so along a leafy lane to the Sculptures Studio,

The work of Nocholas David EAMES is impressive, & no doubt we will be hearing much more of this talentred sculptue in the years to come, His studio consists of a couple of outbuildings et the end of th~ garden,

Our Group spent a fascinating couple of hours learning of traditional & modern sculpture techniques, & being shown work in various stages of completion that was being made ready for a forth-coming exhibit ion. This is to take place at the Crypt Gallery, St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, London,W.C. 1. between the 2nd & 16th September.

After leaving the Studio of Nich Eames, we went to the house of M Mrs Brian Tremain. Brian is a Fe of the Royal ·Photographic Society, is also Chief Photographer at the Bri Museum.

We were all treated to a sple "al fresco" meal, sitting by the ga pond. Later on, members of the G watched A. V.& Video of some recent that the British Museum has been invo with ovflrsaas.

an excellent time was all, & our sincere thanks to Viviana Tremain for organising our visit,

An exhibition of work by David Eames can be seen close to the British Museum Map below,

MAP SHOWING MAIN BUS ROUTES AND UNDERGROUND STATIONS NEAR TO ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY.

Chairmans AGM REPORTcont:

WILLIAMHAYES1871-1940

by Terry Buchanan

Hutton Press

£4.25

It mightbe thoughtthatthe storyof a profess'onal hotographer in a provincialcityduringthefirsthalfof . thecenuryandcomparativelyunknownelsawhel8,would be onlyof I al interest,butI foundthislittlebook fa~inating.

Its not all bad news thoµgh, ~11 the time our small band gets to make the kind of visit it most appreciates and after all if more than a dozen members turnout we should be falling over ourselves and our tri-pods.

We should not expect me to turn up regularly, like Scouts at their weekly assem the visits and meetings we arranged for the Group the past 12 Months have amoung the best to date, is more,thanks to our "PROG ~EC"they have received the publicity ever in the JOURNAL.

Let us keep up this c_ra-c pace and achieve an even bet record for 198 6. Heritage even now one of the most co words in the English langua let's really --explore the .subj while its still popular.

The Nature Group are placed I believe our way ah somewhat differently, you can as a viable Group of the Ro always lose 50 or so members Photographic Society, sho in a Cornfield or a wood. be. A/. To establish a ro r

So perhaps we should consider so that members can obtain ev ourselves most fortunate, taking possible assistance in achiev into account our espeyial not a DISTINCTION for their photogr to say peculiar interests in B/. To im rove the ualit old buildings to name one· aspect, of the Group Newsletter, Magaz that we are generally few in or whatever you wish to c number at our meetings. Which it, intecesting articles brings me to the main point I OK as a general filler, a wish to raise, "Could it be that perhaps to trigger off speciali our Members, being observant interests of members, but and very particular, would much "MEAT IN

THE

SANDWICH" just rather READ about Group exploits, to be the "EXPLOITS". of 1 than be part of them ?" OUR members as individuals, their work and spare time, t interests and handi-work, 2/. the exploits of the G

After all, getting frozen in a ditch or up to your knees in mud is not the best way to treat good camera gear, as John generally· Walden will testify, incidently As an ordinary "STAND-AL I still have a strange brown member, this is what "I" w alluvial substance on my best be most interested in and I · camera case· that defies elimination that you will all agree that from the Groups very first me and make a special ef visit to Tunbridge Powder Mills, to try and achieve this Years ago. in the difficult times ahead.

Chairmans REPORTcont:

oncentrat.ed my report far from earning critisism

_ --:-o p, without reference· for small jobs perhaps not done

:-:-:.:~sism of Bath,as some or missed, we all should be very ave expected,I hope to grateful that someone is prepared a Sub-Committee set-up soon to put themselves out, even put review the Group "RULES & their hands in their pockets "'GULATIONS.and any. other matters at times, for the well being requiring attention. of a great institution which

And now lastly but not least, my very especial thanks to those Officers who have given freely

will one day hopefully be still part of the Great British Heritage of the future.

of their valuable time to this To those unpaid unsung and at times, workers of every RPS Group, grateful thanks. little backwater of the Royal much abused Photographic Society, and rememb- at the back ering that they each and every lets give our one have private lives, a living to earn and jobs to go to.

Victor. AGM. 1986.

:elegates,we only have limited places,& the regulars are sufle to get in FIRST.If you •ould like to take part in the YEAR'S event-ACT NOWI(& get printing your pie-entry) __ _

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LOCKING'lOOClose. 11/6/86. Tonbridge.Kent.

DEAR VICTOR, A TARDY OOTE TO ACKOOWLEDGE YOUR LETTER OF 1st May. LIKE YOURSELF,TI~ HAS OOT STOOD STILL FOR ME, APART FROM W-HCH I AM THE WORLDS WORST LETTER WRITER

BOTH ALAN & I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED GIVIr-¥3 OUR (slide sound) SHOW, IT IS ALWAYS NICE SEEir-¥3 OLD FAVOURITES AGAIN. I AM GLAD IT ALL WENT DOWNWELL. PER-IAPS WE CAN DO IT AGAIN IN THE FUTURE WITH NEW SEQUENCES.

OOW TO THE CONFERENCE. WHAT CAN BE SAID ? IT ALL WENT SO SMOOTHLY,( the Conference) I ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE (WELL PER-IAPS THE BED WAS A LITTLE TOO SHORT) FROM THE HILARITY OF CHECKir-¥3 IN, GRIDIRON FOOTBALL. LADIES CALISTHENICS ( YOU wern't supposed to be IN THOSE,(Ed)). (please repeat next year) THE FOOD, "THAT DINNER" AND ALL OUR SPEAKERS.

PARTICULARLY I WILL REMEMBER NIGAL NEILL, PETER MORRIS AND OUR OWN GWYLL OWEN. A LOOK BACK .AT OUR INDUSTRIAL GLORY, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY LESSON AND THEN PHILOSOPHY A MAN WANT?

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TOGETHER WITH ALL THE FUN, WE HAD OUR OWN COMPANY ! ROLL ON NEXT YEAR.

VICTOR, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR ORGANISATION I AM SURE WE A_LL ENJOYED THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOUR.

My Kindest Regards Yours sincerely

Clive Tanner.

Very,very,many letters from Arthur Page ARPS detailing his not incon, siderable success in · .;o~~itions & exhibit!'_- .,~

Good work Arthurbut next time please

OONTHighlight the bits you want printed with that "DayGlo" pen. the camera only see·• s a SOLID black heavy line. For the record-Yes I db know Ha11 Place Bexley_, I supped with the Mayor at an Exhibitionoof lotal Came.ra C,l.ubs-when I won the A::lll.i"a l ,-,ver.t, to the ·-~u~d 6t mu~h ~n~shing .•

How this for a thought?

When Group's request printed address labels,made by the Bath computer, for the posting .of Newsletters, The label is issued with the approp- riate postage stamp for - eprinted destinationeg: not exceeding 1009.)

st think of the impact & goodwi 11 it could have on ong suffering members no o mention repaired relations. My proposal for this sc eme at the last r.ouncil eeting was seemingly not understood ?

Ed.

!MEMBERSLETTERS

Mr V.J.Heppelthwaite •

Dear Mr H.

· was glad to receive the Autumn 83 issue of "Proof" ,after being out of communication with the Group for more than a year. The fault no doubt lay with Headquarters. Your comments about extending the activities of the Group outside the Home Counties are wel-come. It can only come about if members in the regions are prepared to take some initiative, so perhaps I should stick my neck out and offer to organise something in this area, or help anyone else to do so.

I have been lecturing on archaeology and tutoring pn training excavations for Bristol University Extra Mural dept: for almost a quarter of a century, so I am used to arranging meetings and field trips My position as Trustee of the Western Archaeological Trust and Delegate to countless archaeological organisations gives me wide contacts for arranging lectures or guided tours.It should be quite easy •••• etc:: etc;

Yours sincerely

Charles Browne.

whilst a little old this letter underlines the willingness of (some)members to lend a hand to the Group and The Royal Photographic Soc.: with such lengthy delays built into publication of the official RPS JOURNALpoor attendances at meetings particularly away from the Metropolis,come as no surprise to the Chairman, The only answer seems to be more frequent news from the Groups DIRECT, but with postage even for a postcard at half-a-Crown apiece, & t-ORMALdelivery at just under three shillings & sixpence much more would have to be allocated to Groups by Headquarters •••••••

·HonPROGRAMMESEC's REPORT.Sept86.

The group has had a very busy ti• since the lsat issue of "PROOF". We visited Derwins"OOWN" House, held our 1986 Conf-erence, visited & photographed Court Palace, Bristol Docks & S.S.GreatBritain", The ABBEY at All Saints Church·,Hartler, .the Seu lptor Nicholas David & also Wlrt>SORCASTLE. Fantastic I ·

There are a couple of it•s to be addedto our printed elsewhere in this

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Forest Hill,London SE23. of the Archaeology & Heritage Group will be able to photograph artifacts the current exhibition. Strictly TICKETONLY. Details fr0111 John S~ce LRPS., ______ ,; : nistory in one rare vista. V.H. phone 01-467-5325.

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On display throughout &possibly October as well. The Archae-ology & Heritage Group 1986 Exhibition, atthe AVotCROFT ~seuin of Buildings, Stoke

Why not along & see the (;roup' s Exhibition ? (and eke your-self known to our inanon the spot-Dr Peter Pollit ARPS I Ed: ) The Museumis an interesting · ·place to spend the day anyway I The Tel: Net is- 31886-313.63 for further deatils.

Spring 1987. {Date to be decided) We vill return to the site of the dis-used Gunpovder Factory, near Tonbridge, Ient. This is a fascinating place, vhere once hundreds of people vor~ed manufacturing explosives. Por the last 50 years hovever, the site has been abandoned & alloved to return to nature, "The public" are not admitted,so if you vould like to see the remains of the factory phone Jim Brovn, L.R.P.S., for further details, {01-4G2 3264)

Please remember that the Archaeology & Heritage Group is YOURGroup, so if you vant us to visit somewhere that~ are interested in·, contact me. John Walden on 01-856 1026, Oont forget NEXTYEARSGroup Exhibition- Nov is the time to start sorting out your pictures to enter in the 1987 Exhibition. Every -.ember of the Group is a photographer, so each & every on of you should submit at least one photograph- so get in those darkrooms & start printing!

John Walden L,R.P.S.

A Group photo taken in Windsor Casj:~:

Programme•

Saturday 11th OctoberProvisional1986 date for a visit to see & photograph the Church of Scotland, Pont Street, s.V.3• Details from Victor J. Hepplethwaite, A.R.P.S. telephone Orpington (0689) 23325•

sundaY 9th November 1986 Archaeology & Heritage Group visit to the Welsh industrial & Maratine Museum, Cardiff, south Wales to see the Exhibition "Civil Engineering in Wales" which features more than 400 photographs, bOth old & new. Meet at 2.30pm at the museum• Please contact John Walden, 01-856 1026 or Oven Gibbs 0222 626775 if you will be taking part in the visit.

Sunday 14th December 1986 Archaeology & Heritage Group Christmas Meeting & Party. This will be held at the home of Mr & Mrs Alex ~immons; Bromley, Ient. Details from Victor J. Hepplethwaite, Orpington (0689)23325•

Saturday 21st February 1987 A & H Group Meeting/visit T.B.A•

Saturday 14th March 1987 A & H Group Meeting/visit T.B.A·

sundaY 12th April 1987 A & H Group Meeting/Visit T.B.A•

Wednesday 13th May 1987 l.. ,.:,r-1 .--. I-',.., Provision;,l date for a Group visit to see & photograph Westminster Abbey, London. We will meet at the Abbey at 6PM. Please confirm with John Walden 01-856 1026 if you wish tu c: >!!le01J.·ir,;;••

Progralfflle 1987 Continued.

Friday 29th to Sunday 31st May 1987

This is the confirmed date for the Archaeology & Heritage Group 1987 Conference & get-together to be held at the Crystal Palace Sports & Conference •. Centre. If the Conference is only half as good as the last one it will be greatt This event is highly reco11111endeddon't miss it. Details from Victor J. Hepplethwaite, A,R.P,S. telephone Orpington (0689) 23325- book up early to avoid dissapointment.

Saturday 30th May 1986 2.3op.m.

Archaeology & Heritage Group Annual General Meeting & Election of Officers. ·This will be held at the Crystal Palace Sports & Conference Centre, London S.E.19., during the weekend of our Conference.

Sunday 21st June 1987

A & H Group Meeting/Visit T,B,A.

Saturday 18th July 1987

A & H Group Meeting/Visit T.B.A.

1st& 2nd/9th & 10th August 1987

Provisional date for the 1987 Archaeology & Heritage Group Exhibition, to be held at the Dutch Barn, Horniman Gardens adjacent to the Horniman Museum, 100, London Road, Forest Hill, London, S.E, Details from the Exhibition Hon. Secretary, John Spence, L.R.P,S. telephone 01-467 5325. This Exhibition is for work done by members of our Group. If you would like your photographs to be included they can be monochrome or colour, & should not be larger than 20" x 16" including mount.

Sunday 23rd August 1987- A & H Group Meeting/Visit T.B,A.

September 1987

The ~rchaeology & Heritage Group's 1987 Exhibition will be on display at the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings~ Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

Saturday 19th September 1987

A & H Gr0up Meeting/visit T,B.A.

Sunday 18th October 1987

A & H Group Meeting/Visit T.B,A,

Saturday 14th Rovember 1987

A & H Group ~eeting/visit T.B.A.

Saturday 12th December 1987

A & B Group Christmas Meeting/Party.