The Aquarius & Talk of the Midlands Photo Collection
Click on the White or Black Triangle at top left of the pages to see the Photographs and to navigate through the website.
Scroll down to see the Photo Collection information. At present there are 18 volumes of photographs, approximately 3000 images, changing as additional images are added.
The Aquarius & Talk of the Midlands collection of Photographs, were recently discovered after being lost, and thought to be destroyed many years ago. This was after the change over to digital photography and the closure of the darkroom & lab.
Jenny Taylor, who was doing the conversion of the premises to digital, was to dispose of all negatives and prints over three years old. Jenny did say at the time that the Aquarius & Talk of the Midlands 'collection' (then several large boxes of random prints and films) should be retained because they were a unique record of a very large number of people.
Jenny passed away in 2008.
On moving to new smaller premises in 2012, there were many sacks of material, thought to be rubbish, which were were destined for the skip, however, some had split open and it was realised what the contents were.
The contents of the bags, eventually, proved to be the complete collection of negatives and prints from the Aquarius and the Talk of the Midlands.
It took two years of cleaning and restoration to enable the negatives to be digitised for this website, for everyone to see.
Ken Dodd
The Band and Compere
A Night out.
The Aquarius & Talk of the Midlands Photo Collection, including the framed wall photographs, has been restored, digitised and electronically stored. This website is a Not for Profit site . All income to the website, from sales or advertising, goes to pay for theup keep of the site.All the photographs are available to download onto any device,smartphone, tablet, computer etc.
The photographs are delivered as a digital download to your device. this comprises three copies available over a one month period.
The pictures do not have the copyright mark on them when delivered to you.
The Photographs are at least A4 size and can be printed much larger than that.
***PLEASE NOTE THIS SITE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION ****
Not all facilites are operational yet.**********************
Jenny Taylor with Brian
The Aquarius and the Talk of the Midlands
Hello & Welcome to the Aquarius & Talk of the Midlands Photo Collection website. This is a trial site and is not complete. No phone number yet, only 70% of the photos uploaded, but is progressing well. When the phone and email work, please contact us, we would love to hear from old friends and would welcome any suggestions and contributions.
This is a not for profit site.
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Jenny Taylor with
Two Stars
Duncan Norvelle.
CAROUSEL
Joe Brown
