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body - Polaroid MP-3 Landcamera housing with 4x5 back. 1962
(used for industrial micro/macrophotography)
lens - Fujinar W - 15cm.
hand made metallic lens board.
hand made dedidcated metal tripod mount.
shutter - Seikosha - SLV
My 1st home made 4x5 view camera. --- ( but unfortunately the least imaginative and challenging build to date)
total cost = $88
photo to be posted next.
An abandoned pier near the old City Point sewer plant off of Sea Street in New Haven, Connecticut, shot with my Polaroid Land camera on March 1, 1970.
23 October 2022
Polaroid 225 Automatic. Fuji FP-3000B, expired 11/2014. Scanned and inverted negative.
Polaroid Week Fall 2022 Day 3/2
I took this shot of Simkins Industries along East Street in New Haven, Connecticut with my J66 Polaroid Land camera on February 28, 1970. The factory has since been completely demolished. Behind this building is the United Illuminating Company plant, the Mill River and a single track rail line leading to Belle Dock at the harbor now used by Providence & Worcester RR. The company once manufactured paper products and would give away cardboard to local school teachers who showed up at the factory.
The beach at Fogarty Creek.
11 April 2021
Fuji FP100c, Polaroid 225 Automatic.
'Roid Week 2021 Spring 5/2
@ Vancouver Lake, Washington.
18Oct2020.
Fuji FP-3000B, Polaroid Land Automatic 225
'Roid Week Autumn 2020 5/1
It has been some time since I posted. My father gave the family quite a scare, near death in ICU but recovering now, thank God. It was a reality check for us all. Life is short, time flies and it need not be wasted. We only get a short time here. Don't forget to stop every day and tell that special someone you love them and tell them how much they mean to you. You never know when it will be your last time.
This beautiful Grade II listed Edwardian pub on Old Town Road opposite the Falcon Pottery Works (see www.flickr.com/photos/nigelphoto2011/52847868278/) was run by legendary landlady Betty Buckley from 1952 for nearly four decades until she passed away in 2000 at the age of 87. When Betty retired in the 1990's her son Ken, and then more recently grandson Steve Buckley took over the reins. The Golden Cup was closed for an extended period over Lockdown and reopened in the summer of 2022 following a £250,000 refurbishment. The exterior has been preserved exactly as it was over a century ago including the tiling on the façade supplied by the Campbell Tile Co of London Rd, Stoke, which was added in 1912. A red triangle set in a life-preserver (engraved on the window glass and as part of the tilework below) was the logo of the Bass Brewery, the very first registered trademark in the country under the 1875 Trademarks Registration Act. At the time Bass of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire was the largest brewery in the world. Today the red triangle trademark is owned by Coors-Molson and draught Bass at 4.4%ABV is still brewed in Burton. 'RoidWeek Spring 2023 Day 5. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
The Smithfield Works was built in 1880 as a pottery decorating factory operated by Chas. Barlow & Co. The name of the works came about because it was built on the site of the old Hanley livestock market: in England meat and animal markets have been commonly referred to as 'the Smithfield' since medieval times. The site was acquired by H&W Billington in 1907 for the production of china and earthenware. In 1929 it was purchased by Robert Sherwin, brush manufacturer who operated at the Smithfield Works until the business closed down in 1984. The pottery works was included in a slum clearance program by the City Council in 1977 and by 1982 all the surrounding Victorian terraced cottages had been demolished. However, following representations from the public the Smithfield Works was saved; the only plain-topped 'short-neck' bottle oven in the range in the Potteries to have survived, it was a fine example of a small self-contained late C19th potbank complete with hovel and muffle kiln. After conversion it became Donovan's Wine Bar for a short time, then Chimneys restaurant and jazz club in 1993. When that closed in 1999 the Grade II listed building lay empty for a decade but was purchased and restored by Messrs. Keys Estate Agents who are proud to maintain the buidlings for future generations. 'RoidWeek Spring 2023 Day 3. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
Fuji FP-100C (03/15). Polaroid Colorpack II Land Camera. Close-up Lens # 583 attached to camera by means of gaffer's tape.
Portland, Oregon
02 October 2022
Polaroid Week Fall 2022 Day 1/2
Built sometime in the latter half of the C19th, the Grade II listed Flint Mill on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Port Vale was known to be operated in 1907 by Goodwin's Mill Company. The Mill closed in the 1960's and production was switched to Cheddleton Flint Mill on the Caldon canal. Goodwin's Mill Co supplied ground flint, stone, whiting and other potters' materials to potbanks (the local name for pottery factories). Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
Polaroid 225 Automatic. Fuji FP-3000B, expired 11/2014. Scanned and inverted negative.
Polaroid Week Fall 2022 Day 2/1
Thomas Forester started a small pottery business at the Church Street works, Longton in 1877. His business thrived and in 1879 he knocked down the old potbank which had stood for over 100 years, at the same time purchasing the two adjacent works. He built a large new factory of over 40,000 sq ft. which was completed within two years, naming it the Phoenix Works. In 1881 Forester received the largest order ever for Staffordshire majolica-ware of 8,000 pieces, from the United States. By the end of the century Thos. Forester and Sons Ltd. employed 700 people. When Thomas died in 1907 the business was successfully continued by his descendants until after the Second World War but then majolica-ware fell out of fashion and the Clean Air Act of 1956 prevented the use of the enormous coal fired bottle ovens; without the profitability necessary to convert to electric or gas fired kilns the Company ceased production in 1959. There were originally six (very unusual) downdraught bottle ovens but only these two with their connected chimney remain and are Grade II listed, as is the whole site. In 1961 the Phoenix Works was purchased by the Milner family for their wholesale pottery business and Mark Milner, the latest generation has embarked on a major renovation scheme to provide space to different enterprises. One of which is the excellent Glost House Café where my brother, visiting from Canada and I enjoyed a very good lunch of traditional Staffordshire oatcakes just this week! Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
at confluence of S. Fork of Wilson River, Oregon.
28November2020
Fuji FP-3000B (exp 11-2014), Polaroid Land Automatic 225. Scanned negative, PS inversion.
The tower of St.Michael's is all that remains of the second Church dedicated to St. Michael, on the top of Glastonbury Tor. An earlier C11th timber church was destroyed by an earthquake on 11th. September 1275. The second St Michael's Church was built in the C14th by Abbot Adam of Sodbury, incorporating the foundations of the previous building. Its likely that the Monastery of St Michael on the Tor was a daughter house of Glastonbury Abbey. This Church survived until Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 when it was demolished, although for some reason the tower was left standing. Glastonbury Tor stands 158m above the surrounding Somerset Levels. Archeological excavations in 1892 revealed evidence of human occupation of the site going back at least 5,000 years. The Tor features prominently in the mythology of King Arthur. Taken with a 1981 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Supercolor Autofocus on Polaroid (TIP) film. 'RoidWeek Autumn 2022 Day 3,Photo 1.
In the Batcombe, Somerset Parish Rate Book of 1908, No21 was shown as belonging to Albert Gibbons, butcher. However, he died in December of that year at the age of 49 but his wife Elizabeth and daughters Nellie Thurza age 21 and Bessie May age 19 continued to run the shop. Elizabeth lived on until the ripe old age of 94. The younger daughter Bessie married Fred Boyce, a butcher and together they carried on her father's business. Unfortunately the shop has long since closed but the cottage is still inhabited. Taken with a 1981 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Supercolor Autofocus on Polaroid (TIP) film. 'RoidWeek Autumn 2022 Day 3,Photo 2.
Wells, Somerset, UK. Taken with a 1981 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Supercolor Autofocus on Polaroid (TIP) film. 'RoidWeek Autumn 2022 Day 1 Photo 2 .
A pottery works has existed on this site since 1796, first occupied by potters Jonathan Chetham and Richard Wooley. Following the dissolution of the partnership when Wooley left to start up on his own and the death of Chetham in 1810 the latter's widow Ann continued the business with her son, the factory remaining in the Chetham family for another three generations. In 1873 the Commerce Street works passed into Aynsley family ownership when Herbert, eldest son of John Aynsley of Longton started up his own business at the age of 22. In 1880 Herbert joined his father's firm and over the following 90 years the site passed through a number of owners. In 1993 the last occupant vacated this important site which had been listed Grade II in 1989. On the 4th December 2019 the interior was gutted by fire; reports indicated a strong possibility of arson. This wonderful example of a potbank with two updraught bottle ovens in the range dating back to the early days of pottery manufacture looks relatively intact on the outside but damage to the interior will inevitably mean eventual collapse unless measures to secure the structure are taken in the near future . . . . just like so many other listed buildings of historical importance in The Potteries. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
The chalk cliffs of Flamborough Head form an 8 mile long promontory jutting out into the North Sea just to the east of Bridlington, East Yorkshire UK. Springflower in the foreground was a fishing coble built at Whitby in 1975 and decommissioned in 2014. Taken with a 1981 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Supercolor Autofocus on Polaroid (TIP) film. 'Road Week Autumn 2023 Day 1 Photo 1
Fuji FP-100C (03/15). Polaroid Colorpack II Land Camera. First attempt with Close-up Lens # 583, purchased at resale shop for $1 and attached to camera by means of gaffer's tape.
Portland, Oregon
02 October 2022
Polaroid Week Fall 2022 Day 1/1
In 1891 brothers Warwick and George Savage built a ceramic lithographic print works in Wedgwood Place, Burslem supplying the pottery industry. Their printing and bookselling business became one of the largest in North Staffordshire. Warwick was president of the North Staffs Master Printers' Association, president of the Midland Alliance of Master Printers and president of the Ceramic Printers Association. Unfortunately with the general slump in the pottery industry after the Second World War, the Company ceased trading and the building has been derelict for over forty years. Of interest is the posters advertising the works of Arnold Bennett, the famous writer who put the Potteries on the map in the first half of the C20th. His plays were often put on in Queen's Theatre, adjacent to the printing works. One of Arnold Bennett's best loved books was titled 'Anna of the Five Towns', omitting Fenton from the six towns which make up the City of Stoke-on-Trent. He explained he didn't like the sound of the phrase 'six towns' and he didn't think Fenton was significant enough to include! Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film
For Macro Mondays - Arrow
Instructions on the back of the Polaroid 900, with prominent arrows, circa 1960. I have included an image of the entire camera in the comments.
Three inches in greatest dimension.
A restored pottery works (or 'potbank' as they are called locally in the Potteries area of North Staffordshire) with a bottle oven in the range built in 1860 and recently renovated and converted into affordable housing. In 1842 Captain John Buller and Mr J.Devett purchased a pottery works in Devon and started in business as the Bovey Tracy Pottery Company. Using Cornish clay and coal from Staffordshire they produced a wide range of ware including bed knobs and door furniture. As the business grew, it suffered increasingly from the cost of transporting coal to Devon so the owners decided to move the company to Staffordshire to be close to raw materials sources. In 1862 W.W.Buller & Co were operating the Joiners Square, Hanley pottery works and were one of the first companies to explore the new markets created by electrical power. By the 1880's they were supplying porcelain insulators and associated iron fittings in large quantities for lucrative government contracts and exporting to Australia, Africa, India, Canada and Europe. In 1885 Bullers purchased the metal foundry of Jobson Bros of Tipton, Staffordshire and the company was renamed Bullers Ltd following incorporation in 1890. The business continued to expand and the Hanley site became inadequate so in 1917 a new factory was built at Milton on the Leek Road, at that time in open countryside. In 1959 Bullers Ltd and Taylor, Tunnicliff amalgamated to form Allied Insulators Ltd., a company which is still in business today operating from the Albion Works adjacent to the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton (see www.flickr.com/photos/nigelphoto2011/52783316863/ ). The Joiners Square factory was taken over by the Wedgwood Group for a period in the 1970's but had been vacant and in a state of derelicton for some time when in 1999 extensive restoration work was undertaken by Stoke-on-Trent City Council and converted into apartments. The building now provides eight low-rent units, a part of the Imperial Court Residential Complex operated by Stoke-on-Trent Housing Association. A positive outcome for a Grade II listed potbank of historical importance, saved for the future and providing much needed affordable housing. 'RoidWeek Spring 2023 Day 2. Taken with a 1976 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Alpha 1 on Polaroid (TIP) film