Camera Club
Alan Moore remembers going to the camera club that was run
by Stan Guffogg. He recently found this photo. Alan
remembers:
I used to go to the camera club run by Stan Guffogg in the early
60's - do you remember the darkroom with it's red light outside?
We used to process our own films and prints in there - and do other
things as well, some nothing to do with photography! This
photo would have been printed there. Stan picked me out from the
group during one of the club classes after school, and used me as a
model to demonstrate how to photograph a person's head - I was quite
pleased with this, until he explained that I had an odd pointed
nose, so it would be very difficult to make me look good in a photo!
This picture dates from about 1961, and was taken from the top
floor of the tower block by the stairs, looking roughly north. You
can see the corner of Balfour Road, the bottom end of Trinity
Avenue, the Romany Pub, the allotments on the slope leading up to
Eastern Avenue South, and the old golf clubhouse building near the
centre. I can't remember what time of day it was, but there
are very few people about, so I guess it would be during lesson
time. The camera was an Agfa Silette Solinar 35mm, which apparently
cost £24 4s 2d new in 1959. Mine was second hand, I would
never been able to afford so much.
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