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Topic: Childhood Photos
Posted By: Biker Pat
Subject: Childhood Photos
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 14:14

As we already have "Stories from your childhood" I thought this might be a bit of fun.

Get a photo/s from your childhood and put it in here along with a recent photo and let's have a laugh

This is me in May 1961 aged 7 years on my communion day.




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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975



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Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 14:15

This is me in 1959 at 6 years of age. That's me on the left with my 2 brothers taken in Celtic Park.






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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 14:17

Current photo 2009.




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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 14:18

I'd like to have got these all into one frame but I don't know how to do it in Flickr.

Who's next?


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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 15:05
Pat.....you haven't changed a bit. Great pics and a great idea for a new thread.  Will look for some photo's over the weekend.

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You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter


Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 15:07

Thanks BB, you're a charmer and it's great you're going to add to this. It'll be fun, I hope.


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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 15:09


What happened Pat did you get hit by a bus as you got older





To be honest I can't see your pictures yet they are blocked here in work.  Pat you should have sent them and we could have used them in the "Guess Who thread which has died a death


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"Legal downloads is killing Piracy"



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Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 15:19
Originally posted by Black Russian Black Russian wrote:



What happened Pat did you get hit by a bus as you got older





To be honest I can't see your pictures yet they are blocked here in work.  Pat you should have sent them and we could have used them in the "Guess Who thread which has died a death


Sorry BR. Never saw that thread. Anyway as BB said you'd have guessed it was me easily as Im haven't changed much


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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 27-March-2009 at 20:04
You just get better looking Pat - by the day, great idea.

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Verona


Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 01:52
Pat the Guess Who Thread is worth looking at.
I`ll upload the ones of me again and go hunting for others..


Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 01:58


This was taken in my back garden on Tonlegee Rd.

No idea how old I was - possibly 3 years old so that might make it 1972.

My cousin is still that bit taller than me.


Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 02:02


Summer of 1987. Just finished the Leaving and was working in Dunworley near Clonakilty for the Summer.
The perms were IN.


Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 02:03

Mins did you live on Tonlegee Road too? So did I! 167. My parents still do.

Great idea Pat. Dont know if I have any childhood pics of me here. I think they must be all in Ireland.



Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 02:10


This is recent. Me sitting down after making a prat of myself dancing with one of those blokes wearing the dodgy socks. NOTE the margarita ready for consumption !!.
Actually it was good fun. A load of us women were out for the night and hired these guys. They are minstrels and you follow them through the side streets of San Miguel and a few bartenders come with you to replenish your Margarita or give you more beer. You stop from time to time and dance and then head off. Naturally you end up with loads of hangers on. Great fun and normally used for weddings.


Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 02:12
Yep Carol the folks still live there - 398.
If you were further up did you know Deirdre Carroll and Marie Lambe ?? They were in my year at Manor Farm.


Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 02:16
Originally posted by Biker Pat Biker Pat wrote:

Current photo 2009.


You actually havent changed that much Pat.

I love that shirt - orange and light blue..the bizz.


Posted By: Mins
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 16:44
Hey..thought this Thread would be flooded by now.

Come on gang - you have seen the above of me on the other Guess Who Thread so sorry double load from mise BUT who havent we seen ??.

L. X


Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 17:08

I have to get into my pics and dig out some of my youth!

Great idea Pat! And great pics Pat and Mins.

T



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Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 17:19
Mins you are 7 years younger than me. So if they were in your class I would have been WAY too grown up to know them *LOL*. My sister would be your age though...1969 baby...Patricia O'Brien. But we were all Holy Faith girls. I know of the Lambe family though. And you might have known two of my brothers....Gerry and Donal O'Brien...seems they were known around, eh T? *LOL*


Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 18:21
Originally posted by Mins Mins wrote:





Great photo there Mins - you're looking well!!


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Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 28-March-2009 at 18:47
Originally posted by eejit91 eejit91 wrote:

I have to get into my pics and dig out some of my youth!

Great idea Pat! And great pics Pat and Mins.

T



Thanks T and Mins. I just hope more people join in. It's a bit of fun in these depressing times

Pat


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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 17-April-2009 at 01:08
Originally posted by Mins Mins wrote:

Hey..thought this Thread would be flooded by now.

Come on gang - you have seen the above of me on the other Guess Who Thread so sorry double load from mise BUT who havent we seen ??.

L. X


I guess this thread died a death




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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 17-April-2009 at 12:26
Don't cry Pat.....promise to fish out some old pics today 

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You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter


Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 17-April-2009 at 13:21

Pat, I did find some early pics so will post them and me today soon.

So stop your crying now....Great Topic and I must say that I also expected a much larger interest.

Mine are coming....promise.
I had to find old ones where I actually looked like I took a bath in less than a month.....LOL

I should have had a part in "Angela's Ashes"



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BrendanFella

IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip.



Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 17-April-2009 at 14:37

I'll have a look too Pat.

You'd never know whats in the attic 'till you look



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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST


Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 17-April-2009 at 14:57


Pat don't forget when some of you here were children camera probably weren't invented


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"Legal downloads is killing Piracy"



http://www.flickr.com/groups/th


Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 17-April-2009 at 16:17

Feck off BR,

We had the old "box" camera

and the Kodak "Brownie"

Do you remember "Transistor" Radios?

You young 'uns...I'm telling you, NO bleeding respect, ...LOL



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BrendanFella

IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip.



Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 18-April-2009 at 03:28
Originally posted by BrendanFella BrendanFella wrote:

PatI should have had a part in "Angela's
Ashes"




I hear Angela's part is still open

Someone told me there is a restaurant in Dublin named Angela's Rashers? ...I
think he's having me on




Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 18-April-2009 at 17:56
Ok....found some old pics, but I'll have to wait to get Robbie to put them up cos I haven't got a clue 

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You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter


Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 18-April-2009 at 18:12

Good one BB.

I scanned mine, then sent them to myself via email and then uploaded them to Flickr and then onto the Grove website.

Bit of work but sure it's worth for a laugh


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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.



Biker Pat



Grove 1972-1975


Posted By: DAYO
Date Posted: 11-May-2009 at 21:50
What's a box camera ???????

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Dayo

Grov'in 70 - 76


Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 14-May-2009 at 13:30
The opposite of a camera box

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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST


Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 14-May-2009 at 16:08
DAYO don't listen to ARIES...he don't know nuttin'
A camera box is what the camera came in....LOL
A BOX CAMERA looked like a little BOX. Come to think of it BOX camera was the official name I think. 

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BrendanFella

IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip.



Posted By: BrendanFella
Date Posted: 14-May-2009 at 16:25

The box camera is, with the exception of the pin hole camera, a camera in its simplest form. The classic box camera is shaped more or less like a box, hence the name. A box camera has a simple optical system, often only in the form of a simple meniscus lens. It usually lacks a focusing system (fixed-focus) as well as control of aperture and shutter speeds. This makes it suitable for daylight photography only. In the 1950s, box cameras with photographic flash were introduced, allowing indoor photos.

We were young enough to remember the Kodak Brownie box camera.....LOL

Brownie was the name of a long-running and extremely popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot. The first Brownie, introduced in February, 1900,[1] was a very basic cardboard box camera with a simple meniscus lens that took 2¼-inch square pictures on 117 rollfilm. With its simple controls and initial price of $1, it was intended to be a camera that anyone could afford and use. The camera was named after the popular cartoons created by Palmer Cox.

One of the most popular Brownie models was the Brownie 127, millions of which were sold between 1952 and 1967. The Brownie 127 was a simple bakelite camera for 127 film which featured a simple meniscus lens and a curved film plane to reduce the impact of deficiencies in the lens.

Jaz, I feel ancient now.



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BrendanFella

IRISH DIPLOMACY IS....The ability to tell a man to Go To Hell so that He looks forward to making the trip.



Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 18-May-2009 at 03:21
I remember my sisters coming home from America with flash cameras.
They were big bulbs covered in blue plastic to stop them exploding. I used
to eat them..they tasted lovely.


Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 18-May-2009 at 12:18

I actually have one of those old Box Cameras at home. Bought it off fleabay for about 4 euro. Doesn't work though and the lens is covered in crap..but it's nice to just have if you're into cameras :-)

The modern day equivalent would be the Holga, which I have started to use a while back. It's a cheap Chinese "toy camera" that photographers love, because of the strange affects you get on the photos (it's film of course, medium format).

I've recently gotten into film, I'm a Digital Baby, and I'd love to find a working model of one of the Boxies and run  a roll of film through it.

Recently bought myself a Bronica ETRS Medium Format camera system, it's a beauty.

Oh and Yvonne, leave those pics out and I'll scan them this evening. Is it the one of you in yer Communion outfit? There's one of me in my pram..although I think we may have put that up already in the Guess Who thread?


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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson)


Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 18-May-2009 at 21:24

HD & Yvonne,

Do you know anything about a tiny camera called a Poloroid Instant I Zone camera?  Really handy if you need a small print there and then - cannot get the film anywhere ????  Any advice please.



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Verona


Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 19-May-2009 at 10:20

Hey Verh..I'll do a little research for ya.

I think I know the thing. In fact I'm pretty sure someone was selling one recently on a photography forum I frequent.

Btw...How did I end up with that Avatar....?

I think I smell a Rolo... heheh!!


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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson)


Posted By: Hayseed Dixie
Date Posted: 19-May-2009 at 10:32

Hmmm... just can't get that damned thing to update the avatar..Ahhh!!!


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Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. - (Henri Cartier-Bresson)


Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 19-May-2009 at 13:15

Seems strange Rob.

Send me what you want to use and I'll stick it on for ya .



Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 19-May-2009 at 21:26
Is that a proposition Rolo?

why ye dirty old....



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