I am sorry if I misunderstood the original instruction so not spotted our albums would not only be deleted, but also not even replaced with anything similar.
I do object to that though. I assume there is some reason for it but it’s hard to see any real point, unless Mortons are being charged very high storage fees by the Internet company.
I succeeded in finding the photo eventually. I had sent it to a few people including the same friend some time last year, and it took me a lot of trawling through sent e-posts to find it, then basically forward it to myself!
Still, it meant I could clear out a lot of old e-posts no longer needed!
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I still have all the other photographs otherwise: I had copied them to the ME Forum Albums, not moved them there; but this one had come from within the Forum.
Advertisements: I do not mind them, provided relevant to model-engineering; for they fund the site and we do buy from the companies, between us. I do object when they are intrusive, such as by rapidly changing – or one site, lathes.co, being not only irrelevant but covering a lot of the real contents.
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What was the photo? Ah! Think back about 3 or 4 years now. Someone had found what looked like a circular calculator, possibly incomplete and with a copyright date (1908?) but lost maker’s name; and it had us all foxed by its peculiar numbers and fractions.
I have enquired of various potential trades: weaving, a local company still making specialist slide- and circular- rules, and organ-building. The last by asking no less than Harrison & Harrison, no less. All were intrigued but said, not known here.
So photography? My friend and his daughter are keen amateur photographers, but he said, no nothing to do with that.
Then yesterday he revealed that the daughter is very good at tracing the histories of things like old, specially-made cameras etc, so we wondered if her skills might solve this puzzle.
It’s this thing: