There weren't any - they couldn't find their way here, what with having to pronounce Southwark [1] and Greenwich [2] they all ended up in the Royal National Tongue Hospital, Gloucestershire [3].
[1] Suvvuck [2] Grinnidge [3] Glausesstasheer > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mike wilson > Sent: Sunday, 27 March, 2016 3:45 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: A little extra came with my Photo Lab Index (1939) > > An American stationed in Greenwich? > > > On 27 March 2016 at 14:22 Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I was hoping you would reply Bob. Thank you for the info. > > The word is written out in only one of his versions. It does stand for > > a telephone prefix, because in another version it is shortened to Gr > > 5846. > > > > If there was no GR/Greenbelt telephone exchange in London then it may > > not be quite as exotic (to me) as I was thinking. > > > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I have to say, it doesn't feel like London, England to me. We don't > > > generally write greenbelt as one word, and it's not really a place > > > that we call by name - we refer to 'the green belt'. However, it > > > does appear to be turning into an adjective, as in 'the council has > > > sold 10,000 acres of greenbelt land to developers', but I'd be > > > surprised if that applied in 1942 when the concept of the green belt was > still quite new. > > > > > > Also, I don't know any reason why it would have the hyphenated > > > number, which feels to me like a telephone number. > > > > > > It's certainly possible in 1942+ that the owner was an American > > > applying US conventions to such things, but it seems highly unlikely that > 'Greenbelt' > > > refers to anything over here. > > > > > > 'Greenbelt' would not have been a telephone exchange in London. I > > > see from Google that there are some towns in the USA called > > > Greenbelt, so perhaps it refers to one of these, or to a district with a > Greenbelt exchange. > > > > > > A designation like 2R or 2 R can sometimes refer to an army > > > regiment, eg the 2nd London Regiment, but that was apparently > disbanded before WWII. > > > > > > Perhaps the photographer was one R London... > > > > > >> On 27 Mar 2016, at 05:20, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> Was happy to see the 1939 (First Edition) of the Photo Lab Index > > >> show up in my mailbox this morning. It took me a while to notice > > >> the 6 pages of typewritten "INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRINTING AND > > >> PROCESSING ANSCO COLOR PAPER" folded in half inside the back cover. > > >> What I found interesting was what the previous owner had written > > >> (multiple times) on the back of the folded instructions: > > >> > > >> PHOTOGRAPHER > > >> Have your Portrait made. > > >> Greenbelt-5846 > > >> 2-R-London > > >> > > >> According to Google Books, "Ansco Color Paper" was called "a worthy > > >> newcomer" in a 1942 Journal of Photographic Society of America. > > >> Interestingly, the instructions refer to how it "may be printed > > >> from the usual black-and-white separation negatives or the more > > >> recently available complementary color negatives." Perhaps not > > >> coincidentally, > > >> 1942 was also the year that Kodak introduced Kodacolor, "the first > > >> color film that yields negatives for making chromogenic color > > >> prints on paper. Roll films for snapshot cameras only, 35 mm not > > >> available until 1958". > > >> > > >> Therefore it appears that a (the?) previous owner of my book was a > > >> Londoner and he penciled his (not so creative) advertisement (which > > >> appears to me to be sort of an aspiration) not very long after the > > >> London Blitz ended (May 1941). > > >> > > >> I'm not sure what the 2-R designation before "London" means. But it > > >> appears that Green Belt refers to an area known as "The > > >> Metropolitan Green Belt" which, around London, was first proposed > > >> by the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1935. > > >> > > >> It makes me wonder who this PHOTOGRAPHER was and if he (the > > >> penmanship appears to be masculine) ever got to place his ad and > > >> take Londoner's portraits. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
