SLIDES 0428-0433
Day Out with added Whirlybird; Sometime in the latter half of the 1960s.
And so, we finally come to the end of our journey through the memories stored in that second little wooden box full of my Grandfather's photographs in colour slide format by presenting what I can only describe as a little (presumably Hyde-based) mystery.
Okay, so it's not a particularly huge mystery, or even an interesting one, but, over the course of these half-dozen images, a helicopter comes in to land on a playing field next to some sort of industrial-looking building, or possibly school, and somebody presumably gets out from it.
Then, someone seems to get to stand on a box that is placed there specifically for that purpose, and get presented with something possibly quite exciting by some other people.
After that, the previously and patiently waiting crowds appear to close in and gather around the helicopter to get a closer look at it as if it's the most exciting thing they've ever seen.
"Oh look, Ma, it's one of them there Whirlybirds from off the telly...!"
"I know, love; I saw it land..."
Days out were far simpler then, I suppose, in the days before multi-channel, 24-hour television stations, and a helicopter might have been a very unusual thing, but I can't help but wonder quite what on earth was actually going on to get them all so interested...?
Anyway, that's all from the second wooden box. Next time we plunge into the as-yet unexplored phenomena presented by Grandfather's Mysterious Blue Box...
Coats and matching handbags. Those were the days.
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