In reply to The Purple Pimpernel:
Hi Ian,
Great to hear from you. Glad you liked it. Yeah, still sunboltclipping, but Return to Trad's looming on the horizon. Gulp!
Re the 'wisdom of the bog', Brian Cropper curses himself for not having snapped the various versions. As Sutty rightly says, it was expensive to develop film, so he'd just get one or two photos done from a roll.
What this means though, is that he's got thousands of rare archive photos of stuff that he took 30 years ago and forgot about. Courtesy of Phil Kelly's superb generosity (thanks Phil)in loaning him a very expensive scanner, these are finally seeing the light of day. It's so strange to see the images of people like Dirty Alex and Arni Strapcans.
Thanks to everyone who's posted. I'm glad you've liked it. I really wasn't sure whether anyone would be interested. Brian nagged me to write something - anything. Looks like he was right. So thanks, mate.
'Tales...' has really just scratched the surface. So many people have their own stories which yearn to be shared across the generations. Hopefully we will have more photographs and stories on here.
All best wishes,
Mick