Finish your photo's?

[deano]

I wonder if anyone remembers a chap who was known to all as 'blind John'. I think it was here where he worked from leaving school. He went blind around the age of 16 but said he could do the darkroom job with his eyes shut anyway. He was well known around the working mens clubs, quite a heavy drinker but always managed to find his way home to Jenkin Rd. I would sometimes give him a lift if I saw him........ this must be nearly 40 years ago :o

 

 

 

 

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I know he worked for Propix on Westfield terrace...just before I started there very early eighties...was told he often turned up for work covered in cuts and bruises due to stumbling home after a few.

 

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In the late 50s there was a company called Gratispool.

 

Like the name suggests, you sent your negatives away by post for processing and they sent them back finished, with a free new roll of film.

processed some Gratispool only the other day.