Shackleton VW126: New Photo Added (See under Eric’s Notes – Malvern Trials
Vw126 at Yatesbury, Photo courtesy Robin A Walker
English Electric Luton Airport
I turned up some excellent photos of English Electric Luton, the first place I worked after graduating.
The photos are from Google Street View – what a fantastic resource this is.
Has not changed very much from my 1950s recollection.
Sheffield City Battalion
Am updating the on-line copy of the Sheffield City Battalion book.
Added the Roll Call Pages. Done some restructuring.
English Electric Flight Trials Malvern
I’m working on a new section covering the English Electric Radar Trials at Malvern 1956/57. The available info seems necessarily scarce and my memory patchy.
Further Update
Hi – I have taken an opportunity to do some serious housekeeping on my Sheffield & Family History web site. The site has grown like Topsy over more years than I care to think about, and had become a mares nest. There are parts of the site I don’t understand (off hand) and don’t know which parts are vital and is some is redundant.
So thinking to the future maintenance etc – when I may not be able to do it and have to either leave the site to fend for itself or pass to someone else, I’ve taken on the task of cleaning it up.
In the first instance to adopt WordPress as a suitable platform, migrating the data from the old web site into the new structure (this is not complete, some of the deeper data, is still on the old site, but all the navigation and top level has now been moved over. I have also converted some of the major holdings into PDF form, from HTML, and now store them on Google docs. This provides greater security and access control, than on the old web site. Let me know what you think about the changes.
The old web site will remain as a legacy site, but will not be maintained and there is no certainty how long this will remain available, as its existence, together with external links into the body of the site, can lead to confusion.
Site Update
Hi Just a quick note to advise that I have updated the Sheffield & Family History web site. Specifically I have changed the (WordPress) Theme to one which is clearer and easer on the eyes.
Still have some tweeking to do, I guess a work in progress. Ideally I would like to get all the info into one place, on this blog and not scattered across my web site host. Not a simple job with so much date, maybe a 1000+ photos to organise. But one keeps plugging away.
Eric
Nether Edge Grammar School: Class Photo 1947
Class Photo provided by Graham K. Scholey, showing
His father David Albin Scholey and he is the first student on the left in the first seated row from the front, wearing glasses
