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Preston Docks as it was and how it should be, the ship Geeststar was a common sight to this inland port, I'm talking a good thirty years ago now, when you could wander the docks and enjoy seeing the different vessels loading and unloading their wares. The ship was one of several vessels that brought bananas over from the Carribean, and obviously Geest was one of the well known importers of bananas. The ship also had accommodation for several passengers.
   Now to the film and picture itself, Agfa CT18 was what I was using at the time, I'd love to try Agfa films in my Leicas, sadly they've gone bust, never mind. The transparency hasn't aged well, as they were bound in glass, standard practise at the time, and has suffered quite a lot of fungus, had to nearly airbrush the sky after scanning, it was so badly affected.
   When mounting slides you stuck the perforations to the glued inside of the mount, placed it between two clean two inch square glass plates, one was pregla glass that had a slightly mottled surface, which went on the shiny non emulsion side of the transparency, this helped to prevent Newtons rings from forming, rainbow coloured contours like you have on ordnance maps. Then when you were quite happy, wou then sealed the whole lot up with mitered gummed tape called passe par tout, remember Around The World In Forty Days? That's what you did when you were exibiting slides.

I remember ALL of that... sadly    In fact, I just finished digitizing over 600 slides for a friend.  WHEW!  I will NEVER volunteer to do that again.

They dated back to just after WWII.  Some were pretty interesting.  Others were family vacation shots.  Many were red so I had to convert them to B&W just to salvage the memory.

Nice shot!

Don't envy you one little bit, think of it this way though you've done some good salvage work there, so could there be a book there somewhere? Out of 600 slides there may be something well worth writing about.