Born in 1929, I bought my first camera from Woolworth's for 2/6d ( 12.5p in today's money), aged eight. It was made of green plastic, and took 16 pictures on a roll of 127 roll film. I taught myself Photography, with the help of our local Public Library, and went on to spend fifty years as a Professional Photographer. I served as a Photographer in the R.A.F. with 617 Squadron (The Dam Busters), where some of my duties entailed maintenance of the air to ground cameras of our fleet of Lincoln Bombers ( a development from the war-time Lancasters), and processing and printing of the pictures...more
