On the beach at St Ives - 1959

We will try and merge the post and comments for you. The dull side of a negative is its back = the emulsion side. It is not easy to work that out with later 35 mm coated films.
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treeve - [May 09, 2009 at 10:13 PM]
For starters, that is the young lad at St Ives in his dunlops.
It is St Ives, they are at the end of Smeaton s Pier, the picture is scanned in reverse, that is the old stone breakwater and old quay - for more info see the St Ives album on site of the harbour and history.

opobs (87.127.138.224) [May 09, 2009 at 10:22 PM]
Thanks for that, do you know who the lad is? Will reverse the photo and repost!

treeve (62.69.35.77) [May 09, 2009 at 10:27 PM]
Is there anything in the tins other than pictures, that may give a clue? It appears they may be St Ives people - look at the catch of fish on the sand. Postcards, letters, notes, anything other than photographs? You have made a lucky find with those pictures.

opobs (87.127.138.224) [May 09, 2009 at 10:33 PM]
There are very many more photos but all were holiday snaps as i knew the photographer who lived near Bridgend in South Wales. I shal scan some more in the next few days and post them here. There are a number of places which are definitely not St Ives, but I can t identify them.

May 09, 2009 at 10:41 PM]
I have found a Love Wellies site with a posting of yours in relation to Keith Cole and your website;
I have to ask you if you have attempted to trace the family, in case there are any possible claimants of copyright? There is a 75 year standing waiting time if unclaimed.

I thought I d just be able to flip my photo here on the site but I can t unfortunately or I would have done so. The negatives are quite old and it s almost impossible to tell emulsion side from the other.

The negatives were passed on to an aquaintance of mine following a house clearance and these have been handed on to me. Rather surprised about the Love Wellies bit as that s news to me, will investigate!

I know the problem; we have rotational software on site, but not mirroring. Easiest done on the PC software, but some scanners have a throw back scatter when scanning on the shinier side .

If it was a house clearance, then it is fairly certain that there was no family or family interest; it would appear that you are safe in the assumption that they are free of claim.
The Wellie Site actually copies an entry from a posting of yours to Flikr, apparently, Friday 20th March this year.

@opobs, I ve looked at your upload to flickr, entitled stream playground . I do admire your observational skills, what a wealth of detail you can see in that shot.

Thanks Penzancemaid, having grown up in that era, I ll be 60 in two weeks, I know what to look out for!

Yes, my childhood wasn t tremendously opulent, either. Lots of people from around that time would echo your sentiment.