Old Ireland in Photos

Interesting that all the grown ups are wearing the party hats. Although it could be that they are the circus clowns posing in their hats.

Yes, I've kept my old trannies, hundreds of them, but sadly the 'ledger' which detailed the contents of each acid-free sleeve has been lost as a result of multiple house moves. Only the earliest have the content written on the sleeve, so it would be a monumental task to go over them all. I also have thousands of colour ones, also detailed, but need to learn how to scan them. The old scanner I have is B&W. My first 35mm camera was a Halena, then a Voigtlander Vitoret, then a Russian Zenith, graduating to an OM1, an OM101 and then a few pocket zooms (easy for business travel), first digital was a Sony and then switching to digital Nikons. I'll measure the photo when I'm next at it,

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And it looks like she is pointing to the left!!! Many a ghost has been captured on film over the years!! 😁

Go on, start a new thread for that! 😮

Hi, I know a lot of the photos already posted and quite old and are of family members but I have a different issue and wonder has anyone any suggestions as to how to solve it.

I have a lot of old cinefilm from late 50s to mid 60s, all has been restored and edited and all that and obviously most of it is family related however my grandmother ran a B&B in Kerry at that time and I have a couple of little clips of families who were visitors at the time. I have no relative left who has any idea who they are as the footage has not been looked at properly for nearly 40yrs. I managed to track down many people in random clips from my parents early married life as my father before he died recognised a lot of people, I had wedding videos and children playing etc that I have distributed to the relevant families all of whom were delighted to get it!

It's really annoying me now to not be able to find this family of mother/father and 6 children between about 3 to 12 I'd guess, all those children are in their 60s/70s hopefully. It would be nice for surviving children and grandchildren to be able to see this film footage (no sound) of a time they probably don't have film or maybe even photos of.

Any suggestions? I do have still shots from the film but even for example posting them on an FB page if there was a relevant one is probably not much use as the age profile of the children now means they are unlikely to be FB users, in desperation I even contemplated Joe Duffy 😄 with the story on the basis that they would tweet the photo but I doubt he appeals to the age group I am probably trying to target, ditto Ray Darcy!

Yes it's a conundrum alright! Sure I have FB myself and am in my 60s 😁 but like that don't really use it other than for my hobbies, never use it to keep in touch with friends/relatives.

It has been a great little project and very rewarding to pass on the little bits of film, we took photos/film of ourselves for granted when we were young as my mother was very interested in photography but interestingly enough I have shown clips to people and realised that some did not even recognise themselves as children as they had no old family photos!

I'm down to the last few clips that I can't identify now and while a couple are very very short there is one nice long one of this particular family and it's very clear, probably cos I paid the price of my last car (I do favour cheap cars though) to have all the old reels digitally restored! 😆

Where in Kerry was the B&B? I know Kenmare has a very active local history group on FB.