Now the story of Severndroog Castle is pretty well known and so the story of this 47 year old picture rests with the image.
It was taken with one of those old clunky instamatic cameras, which processed the film straight away and turned out the image in minutes.
The film was expensive and from memory you only got eight or so shots, but there was something magical about the instant nature of the process.
Today the mobile phone or the digital camera will do it equally fast with the added advantage that it can be sent on to family and friends across the planet.
But in 1970 this was pretty neat, and how better to use the camera than to wander up Shooters Hill.
Someone far more expert than me will be able to explain just how the camera managed to create that blotch to the right of the Castle.
It is quite clearly a tree but a tree which shouldn’t be there, so perhaps the camera didn’t quite work.
Answers on the back of a post card addressed to the Friends of Severndroog Castle or just add a comment to the blog.
Location; Shooters Hill
Picture; Severndroog Castle, circa 1970, from the Simpson family collection
The film was expensive and from memory you only got eight or so shots, but there was something magical about the instant nature of the process.
Today the mobile phone or the digital camera will do it equally fast with the added advantage that it can be sent on to family and friends across the planet.
But in 1970 this was pretty neat, and how better to use the camera than to wander up Shooters Hill.
Someone far more expert than me will be able to explain just how the camera managed to create that blotch to the right of the Castle.
It is quite clearly a tree but a tree which shouldn’t be there, so perhaps the camera didn’t quite work.
Answers on the back of a post card addressed to the Friends of Severndroog Castle or just add a comment to the blog.
Location; Shooters Hill
Picture; Severndroog Castle, circa 1970, from the Simpson family collection
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