This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family. *
Now this is nothing more complicated than a picture from one of our bedrooms looking down on the back garden.
It was taken sometime in the early 1970s, and shows Dad's shed, the old swing which came with us from Lausanne Road, and the two fruit trees.
And in its mix of stuff, I guess will not be much different than all the other houses on the Progress Estate.
What might just set it apart was that the picture was taken with one of those instant cameras, which gave you a result in seconds.
Once the button had been pushed , you waited just a minute or so for the photograph to appear, doing away with a trip to the chemist, or posting the film away to a photographic lab.
All of which dispensed with the week or delay before the images arrived back.
Here was instant pictures, which to a pre mobile generation was magic.
I can't now remember which type of instant camera we used, and I have to say most of the pictures have long since been lost, while a few were ruined as they came out, because the trick was lo let them dry, otherwise you smudged them.
And that could be a bit of a disaster given how much the films cost to buy.
The shed and the trees have long gone, and this represents one of the few pictures we have of the house and garden.
Still it's enough and will bring back shed loads of memories to me and my sisters and their partners.
Location; Well Hall
Pictures; Well Hall Road, circa 1973, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/One%20hundred%20years%20of%20one%20house%20in%20Well%20Hall
It was taken sometime in the early 1970s, and shows Dad's shed, the old swing which came with us from Lausanne Road, and the two fruit trees.
And in its mix of stuff, I guess will not be much different than all the other houses on the Progress Estate.
What might just set it apart was that the picture was taken with one of those instant cameras, which gave you a result in seconds.
Once the button had been pushed , you waited just a minute or so for the photograph to appear, doing away with a trip to the chemist, or posting the film away to a photographic lab.
All of which dispensed with the week or delay before the images arrived back.
I can't now remember which type of instant camera we used, and I have to say most of the pictures have long since been lost, while a few were ruined as they came out, because the trick was lo let them dry, otherwise you smudged them.
And that could be a bit of a disaster given how much the films cost to buy.
The shed and the trees have long gone, and this represents one of the few pictures we have of the house and garden.
Still it's enough and will bring back shed loads of memories to me and my sisters and their partners.
Location; Well Hall
Pictures; Well Hall Road, circa 1973, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/One%20hundred%20years%20of%20one%20house%20in%20Well%20Hall
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