Society AGM Information, 20 April 2013

[berryr99]

Mick,

Nice pictures and a good reminder of the day.

Bob B.

[MickT]

Thanks Bob. Even if only one person enjoys the photo report then it makes the hours doing it worthwhile!

I'm now off to correct the first of the errors that I have found in the captions! (Not saying where it is!)

Mick

[Malcolm]

Mick
What!  An error in your captions?    Would never happen to Alisdair MacAndrew of that well known Craigshire rag the Craigshire Daily Advertiser and Gazette  ::)

Suggest you do not alter the error and we have a competition to see who spots it first!

Malcolm

[MickT]

I've been at it almost full time since uploading on Thursday night correcting captions - due to numbers of emails and PMs received telling me of errors spotted - but at least it shows people have been reading the things and perversely nobody spotted the biggest error that I have identified myself and have now corrected! Just in case you are curious it was to photo 90 - but it has been fully researched is is now accurate!

Mick

[Malcolm]

Mick
As usual a great set of photos which as you well know are greatly appreciated up here in North Britain.
Maybe you should employ a scribe to undertake all the note taking then you can blame them for any caption errors!!   ;)  [I'm not offering!!!!!!!!!]
Malcolm

[MickT]

Hi Malcolm,
Well in some cases this is done but the errors still get through! I found a real howler yesterday that had not been picked up by anyone and it took me a couple of hours of digging out old mags etc to find old articles and get the facts corrected. I suspect that the owner of the model in question is at the Festiniog this weekend enjoying the 150 gala so will be none the wiser when he gets back and marvels at how I got all the little detail facts right.

The one attributing Gwen to RM July 1962 originally had it as June 1962 and this text was read by 3 other people who have been involved or have an interest and nobody picked up the error until Adrian Ponting emailed me to tell me it was incorrect! (thanks Adrian!). Now showing the right date but regrettably the next 009 News will show it with the wrong one. Ah well, I often find typos in plder photo reports on my website that are 2 or 3 years old when searching through them looking for an odd item so it seems that the caption errors are probably self generating!

Mick

[Malcolm]

Mick
In the days when I had to earn a living we had a number of property portfolios that required to be re-valued every 3 or 5 years.  There is nothing worse than having picked up a report from 3 or 5 years previously and find a howler and then have to go to the client and explain ones self.  I have eaten a lot of humble pie in my time but thankfully nothing serious enough to get sacked.  A sore backside from the boss yes........
Malcolm

[tat2drod]

Ah well, I often find typos in plder photo reports on my website

Groan... :)

[MickT]

Well spotted Rod - and it really was a genuine typo!

Mick

[rod335]

I've just posted, in error, on the other place, that I thought there was something wrong when you said Gwen was in the Toddler in June 62. I KNEW it was a blue cover (January, April, July and October).

Rod

[MickT]

I saw that post Rod and decided to ignore it as you were clearly bewildered and having a senior moment gain..................

Mick

[rod335]

The trouble with senior moments is that I seem to be having more of them as I get older........


Rod

[petersmith1942]

I just forget about them and get on with the next.................
what was the topic
Peter Smith

[berryr99]

My senior moment..... trying to clone out a spot on a Photoshop shot, fiddling with all sorts of settings and then realising the monitor screen was dirty !

Bob B.

[Krizzy]

Re: photo 90!

Hello all, I caught up with Mick's Rainford AGM photo blog moments before leaving home for the FR 150 gala. I quickly saw the error of his ways and made a mental note to email 'corrections' soon after arriving back home. But then some of you had already noted the error. The FR weekend was very good and I am sure John Wooden will have taken many a photo and video of the events up and down the FR. There were many well known faces to be seen, Peter Kirby and family, Ian Hastie, Andrew Burnham, and David Gander to name a few. Colin Lea was seen on one of the WHR trains. The WHR train on Momday for me was the highlight of the weekend. Stan Williams and I stopped off in the Beddgelert forest to see the train with double headed Garratts hauling the service train with an SAR train of wagons attached to the rear as it neared the summit of the line. Both engines working flat out to recover some of the 25 mins late running. The noise and the sight spectacular. As we drove away we saw Andrew B returning to his car, he had photographed the train at the summit.

It was a very good weekend of events that the FR should be very pleased about. The numbers of people about and riding the trains should fill up their bank balance. News concerning one of the star attractions, 'Welsh Pony', is that it looks quite likely to be restored to working order providing the funding can be found.

Roger