Here's the background to this minor matter; from time to time I visit local car boot sales and on rare occasions I've seen boxes of 35mm colour slides for sale. Nearly all of these I have looked at, put down and walked on, but I suppose twice in 5 years I have made an offer on them (silly money, pennies) for those which depict local scenes I can no longer go and take myself, as they no longer exist.
One of my friends has suggested that a couple of them could be included in a historical society publication. I have declined any suggestion of publication but am quite happy for them to be shown as one or two of the images during a slide evening. I really only bought them for my own local historical interest. I would certainly be unhappy with any credit or attribution, as my only connection was paying a small sum for a box of them, I have no idea what camera was used and when it was taken and can only guess to within a couple of years the dates of the pictures. I have been told as I bought them, what I do with them is my concern. Regardless of whether this is entirely true or not, I don't feel happy with this at all. I would really like to know who took them and why and how they ended up in a car boot sale, but I never will. As for the future of these and my own record of local pictures, I will one day leave them to a local museum or society. It might be a curiosity to another generation. Has anyone else had any thoughts for the long term use/destination of their photographs? Malcolm
