Trees and rock – Padley Woods.

Burbage Brook – Negatives from the 1980s No4.

Burbage brook was used as the feeder stream for Padley Mill.

Padley Mill: Negatives from the 1980s No3.

Padley Mill on Kodacolor VR 200 film made between 1982 & 86

The back of the mill can be seen through the trees and the stream in the foreground fed a small dam (behind the trees on the left of the image) which maintained flow through the mill race.
This was a corn mill from the mid-eighteen century; also used as a saw mill and wire-drawing mill.

Negatives from the 1980s No2.

Padley Mill Grindleford Derbyshire, a former water-powered corn mill.
Made on: Kodacolor VR 200 introduce in 1982 and discontinued 1986.

Found a sheet of negatives from the 1980s.

Water Mill drive converter wheel.

Going through old negatives, I found a sheet from the early 1980s of Padley Mill and Padley woods in the Peak District National Park: Derbyshire.
Kodacolor VR200 film which was made between 1982 to 86, this helped me date them at more than 35 years old.

I have been scanning and converting some into B&W.

A leaf.

A foggy day.

Yashica mat 124G with Tmax 400 at asa 320.

Peak District – Derbyshire.

Rocks: Ilford FP4 plus.

York Minster.

I am almost sure this negative (T-max TMY not TMY-2) was made in the early 1980’s.

The first recorded church on this site was a wooden structure built in 627, the present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. Looking at its history: the site seems to have been beset by fires ! see this Wiki link.

A damp & foggy day.

Lone tree on a damp, cold & foggy North Yorkshire moor.

Steps No4: Coneysthorpe Nth Yorkshire.

Coneysthorpe Nth Yorkshire.

Steps No3.

From my Oman files.

Steps No2.

From my Oman files.

Steps No1.

More alternative visualisations/previously un-scanned negatives or processed files from Oman, starting with this one, made in 2010.

Being stopped from travel and almost locked away for more than a year, I’ve not had much enthusiasm or even opportunity for photography. So going through my negatives/slides and digital files has kept me from going ‘Doolally’, for those not familiar with this word: it means ‘lose one’s mind’, derived from the boredom felt at a British Army transit camp in Maharashtra India, established in 1861.