Photo Album: John Granger 1947 - 1952

Dad's collection of photos lay unseen for years. After he died in 1995, I think at some point I acquired them, though I can't remember now quite how, or when.

Eventually, I got round to scanning all the negatives, but they were still a bit mixed up. Then I started the painstaking work of examining the cut edges of strips or individual frames of film, to see if I could discover their original order. By examining the details in each photo, I worked out, or guessed, the date of each photo, and so I could begin to sort them into folders by date and subject, and give each scanned image a filename that indicates its year, month and order in a subset.

Each set of negatives, with (in some case) contact prints, were stored in a lever-arch file, in the same system as the digital copies.

Finally, I hand-coded html index pages for every folder, to link them all together so that their story can be read, just with any internet browser.

Just start at the home page and at the bottom of each page, click the link to see the next page, or the up arrow to go back to a main index page. Alternatively, you can see the navigation at the top and click anywhere.

There will be some errors, but I have made it as accurate as I can.

If you right-click a picture and choose to "Open image in a new tab", you can see a larger version.