Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Backsides?

We’re a photo scanning service, sure, but did we go for the right name?
In the main we scan photos, most of them taken within the last few years. Increasingly we’re scanning photos that have historic interest. This is mainly relevant to the family owning the photos but we hope that as the Historypin service takes off we’ll be scanning photos with wider historic significance.
It’s noticeable that in so many cases the back of the photo is at least as interesting as the image on the front. Yesterday we scanned a collection including a 1927 photo taken at Southend airfield. It’s of an ancient bi-plane; the pilot is wearing a leather flying helmet, he has two passengers - one is bare headed the other is wearing an ordinary hat. They’re all waving at the cameraman. Ready for take off into grey Essex skies, the flight of a life time.
On the back are some notes. This was the plane in which an aunt took her first flight. The name of the pilot was there and indeed it was signed by him. Was this aunt’s first and last flight? Who was the Captain, a jobbing commercial pilot or a retired World War 1 air ace?
We can scan both sides. Maybe we should call ourselves the bothsides photo scanning service.

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