{"id":13831,"date":"2024-10-11T03:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T03:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-nostalgic-1950s-photos-which-were-almost-lost-for-ever\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T03:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T03:37:37","slug":"the-nostalgic-1950s-photos-which-were-almost-lost-for-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-nostalgic-1950s-photos-which-were-almost-lost-for-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The nostalgic 1950s photos which were almost lost for ever"},"content":{"rendered":"


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This 1958 photo captured seagulls feeding from fish boxes at Aberdeen harbour<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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An amateur photographer\u2019s images from the 1950s have been generating fresh interest more than a decade after they were almost lost for ever.<\/p>\n

Ray Stokes took his Voigtlander camera with him when he travelled on his motorbike around the UK and to places including Italy, Germany and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

After his death at the age of 88, his son Simon rescued the collection of old slides which his mum Jill was thinking about throwing away.<\/p>\n

When he started the lengthy process of scanning all the images he discovered more than 2,000 pictures from his father’s life and travels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ray Stokes motorbiked around Europe, taking photographs as he went, including here in Italy<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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There were pictures of people and landmarks around Scotland and the UK, along with images taken on the continent.<\/p>\n

Ray had served in the RAF and was shot down over Germany during World War Two. He was taken prisoner after parachuting to safety.<\/p>\n

One of the sites he later visited on his motorbike was the area which had been the target of that RAF mission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Travel in the Scottish hillside was among the images captured by Ray Stokes<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Devil’s Elbow is in the Blairgowrie area<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Forth Bridge was also photographed as Mr Stokes travelled around Scotland<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Simon identified Inverness Castle in one image because his dad wrote a lot of information about his images<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mr Stokes took a photo of what he described as a “successful fishing trip”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Morris dancers were photographed in Chipping Norton in 1962<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Ploughing in Germany in 1957 was among the images from Europe <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Aberdeen’s Union Street seen from the Castlegate area more than 60 years ago<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Ray, who lived in the Blaby and Whetstone areas of Leicestershire, died in 2012.<\/p>\n

Simon uploaded some of his father’s images to a photo sharing site in 2017.<\/p>\n

He also made a print of one image – showing seagulls at Aberdeen harbour – which hangs on his wall at home.<\/p>\n

Simon, 58, from Enderby in Leicestershire, posted the picture on social media last weekend and was surprised by the reaction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Simon Stokes – pictured with dad Ray and mum Jill – says he has inherited his love of photography from his father<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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“I thought it was a good image which possibly deserved to be seen, with an interesting back story, and it might generate some interest,” he told BBC Scotland News.<\/p>\n

“However, I wasn’t quite expecting the response it has generated – I’m totally blown away.”<\/p>\n

The one image has had more than 4,000 likes and scores of complimentary comments, with one person describing it as “otherworldly, like a watercolour painting emerging out from a time labyrinth”.<\/p>\n

Simon said his dad would be “scratching his head” at the interest the pictures had generated all these years later.<\/p>\n

He said he had inherited a love of photography from his dad \u2013 and that it was \u201cscary\u201d to think that all those images could have been lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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