SLIDES 0581-0582, SLIDE 0614
We are now going to venture into the strange and mysterious world of the individual yellow plastic (and sometimes cardboard) Kodak slide boxes which fill a large proportion of that strange box full of my Grandfather's slides which we have been exploring.
The first of them is - rather typically - completely unmarked and contains a batch of around thirty-six slides which appear to date from the early 1970s and they mostly - but not all - feature pictures taken on the Isle of Man.
Things will also be getting rather more random for a short while because it appears that I may have scanned these in the incorrect order, or, just perhaps, they were being stored in the wrong order and I just scanned them as I found them.
Whichever you choose to believe, the first two pictures and one of the last ones in this set feature either some kind of very small parade, or drumming practice for a much larger event. I can never really decide just how martial such things are (there are certainly stripes of rank upon some of the sleeves), because I'm sure at least some marching bands aren't affiliated to an armed service of any kind.
Anyway, whatever's going on, I'm fairly sure that these pictures are not from Northern Ireland at the height of the "Troubles" in the early 1970s, and that whatever practice is afoot has a more benign purpose than might otherwise be inferred.
The little kid in red running alongside the band seems excited to be there anyway.
Possibly a Grandparent themselves by now.
Possibly a Grandparent themselves by now.
Don't look now...
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