My first photographs [3]

In 1960, or more probably 1961, I was given my first camera as a birthday present. This was a Welsh-built Purma made out of bakelite. It had three shutter speeds defined as slow, medium and fast and shutter sped was controlled by how you held the camera, upright one way for slow, horizontal for medium and upright the other way for fast. The shutter was a weighted focal plane and one had to be careful in fast mode not to allow the camera to jolt when the the shutter fired with a massive clunk. The film used was 127 size in square format. I'm not 100% sure that the photos in this set are of my first film, but certainly from the first few films I ever took. As mentioned, date uncertain but more probably 1961 when I would have been 12 years of age.

 

 

My sister Sheila through the trees, she would have bee about six years old here. The location of this photograph is the cattle feeding pond which used to be in a field behind the police houses at Waterton Cross. The land is now built on and covering this site is a large day centre for adults with learning difficulties.

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